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Aug042015
Last-Ditch Plan Aims to Prevent First Drought Extinction of Native Fish
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 11:00PM
Noah’s Ark supposedly provided shelter to animals from the rising floodwaters. But at a federal breeding site near Shasta Lake, Calif., the opposite is occurring: The tanks of Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery are providing refuge this summer for salmon nearly out of water. There, staffers are rearing the only insurance policy that the Sacramento River’s winter-run Chinook have against extinction: a living genetic bank of 1,035 baby fish, selected to reseed the population should it extinguish in the wild.
LINK (via:Scientific American)
tagged chinook salmon, fish in the news in Climate, Conservation, Species
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