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Showing posts with label NOAA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NOAA. Show all posts

Thursday, June 4, 2009

NOAA Biological Opinion Released




Here's the NOAA press release. The full report is linked to at the bottom of the release. An excerpt:

"NOAA released its final biological opinion today that finds the water pumping operations in California’s Central Valley by the federal Bureau of Reclamation jeopardize the continued existence of several threatened and endangered species under the jurisdiction of NOAA’s Fisheries Service.

The bureau has provisionally accepted NOAA’s recommended changes to its water pumping operations, and said it will begin to implement its near-term elements as it carefully evaluates the overall opinion.

Federal biologists and hydrologists concluded that current water pumping operations in the Federal Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project should be changed to ensure survival of winter and spring-run Chinook salmon, Central Valley steelhead, the southern population of North American green sturgeon and Southern Resident killer whales, which rely on Chinook salmon runs for food."

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Report: Salmon booms and busts tough to change

Here's the AP article on the NOAA Fisheries Service report about the 2008 Sacramento River salmon collapse.

For a PDF copy of the report, go here.