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By David Guy With 2023 emerging as a wet year in the Sacramento Valley, water resources managers and Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) are watching groundwater levels and quality to see how the aquifer systems will recover on the heels of some very dry years where there has been little surface water available in certain parts … Continue reading “Watching Groundwater Levels Recover in the Sacramento Valley”

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Dana Lee, FishBio This blog from FishBio was originally posted on April 17, 2023. Last week’s Fish Report covered the disappointing news about this year’s salmon fishery closure as well as some of the alarming predictions for the coming year. However, each year, it is important to look back and review some of the key findings from the previous year’s salmon … Continue reading “An Unfortunate Outcome: A Review of the 2022 Salmon Season”

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By Paul Buttner, Manager of Environmental Affairs, California Rice Commission It has been about six weeks since we concluded our fieldwork and drained our project field in the second week of March. You may recall that the bypasses flooded for a second time in mid-March and, as a result, we were unable to count all the fish … Continue reading “Ricelands Salmon Project Update”

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He nearly called balls and strikes for a living, but thankfully for the Chinook salmon, he chose to count fish instead. Ted Trimble was on his way to becoming a baseball umpire before he decided to stick with his job as waterman in a small community south of Chico. He had a family friend who … Continue reading “Never Counted Out – Ted Trimble”

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