BAY DELTA CONSERVATION PLAN
Blog
By Kate Poole
From NRDC - Monday, May 13, 2013
Coalition response...NRDC continues to beat the drum over impacts on endangered salmon and in
doing so, often neglect other important information. The constant drum beat of
blaming the pumps for the decline of Delta fisheries is misleading and does
little to provide useful information that may actually help find a solution to
the Delta's woes.
As a start, 20 years of pumping
restrictions have done nothing to improve conditions for fish. One would think
that if a supposed solution isn't achieving the desired results then logic
would tell you to look for another solution. But that's not in NRDC's playbook.
In fact, the National Research
Council reported in March of 2012, "Consideration of the large number of
stressors and their effects and interactions leads to the conclusion that
efforts to eliminate any one stressor are unlikely to reverse the declines in
the listed species."
That is as clear as it gets. You
can't focus on solely one thing to improve ecological conditions in the Delta
but Kate Poole chooses to quote Dick Poole and blame the State and federal
water projects that "divert too much water out of the Delta."
When you superimpose the chart
used in Kate's blog on a Sacramento River Chinook escapement, ocean harvest and
river harvest chart you see a remarkable similarity in the trend over the past
24 years of data---www.farmwater.org/nrdcsalmondata.pdf. You also
see that fishermen routinely take 50 to 90 percent of the fish in the system. I
wonder how that affects fish populations. Couple that with recent data showing
that 93 percent of the hatchery salmon released on the Tuolumne River never
make it past the mouths of predatory bass in the Delta and one has to wonder whether
the pumps are really the problem after all.
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