Half of this year's endangered winter Chinooks may have died

As many as half of this year's endangered Sacramento River winter Chinook salmon run may have perished in irrigation ditches, according to information disclosed in a federal agency report, a state agency report and an independent scientific assessment.

To compound the problem, the weakened survivors face being hammered by the mismanagement of cold water releases from Shasta Dam by the state and federal governments.

Dan Bacher lays out the grim details.

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The Sacramento is not the only river seeing its salmon under threat from rich and powerful agricutural interests.

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