While wetter streets and a greener White House may offer San Franciscans some hope for the future, the situation remains dire for salmon in the Tuolumne River. At the end of the 2020 spawning season, just over 1,000 salmon passed through the weir at the Tuolumne River — the source of the City’s Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park.
“The numbers are pretty pathetic,” Peter Drekmeier with the Tuolumne River Trust told me. “Historically, well over 100,000 salmon spawned in the Tuolumne.”
Drops in salmon populations have wide-reaching impacts on the environment, local economy and San Francisco’s culture. The City used to have wet, winter salmon openings, where hundreds of fishermen and thousands of anglers caught fish that were “biting like dogs.” In September 1989, The Examiner launched the “Big Fish Club,” a service to highlight readers’ prize catches. Collins Jones caught a 40-pound salmon.
Full story: https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columni ... -fiddling/
Advertising