Tuesday
Apr012014
Broken Pumps Lead to 175 Endangered Steelhead Deaths
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 12:00AM
In the past year, 175 steelhead trout — a federally endangered species — died in Hilton Creek, a tributary of the Santa Ynez River, when pumps operated by the federal Bureau of Reclamation that feed water into the creek as part of a steelhead restoration effort failed to function properly and left the fish stranded in the mud.
LINK (via: The Santa Barbara Independent)
tagged WTF, fish in the news, wild steelhead in News, Species
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