By: Real America News Updated 19 Jan 2022, 22: 06 pm EST
The heavy rains that flooded California in late 2021 were welcomed by farmers, urban planners, and by a surprise guest, the coho salmon, in danger of extinction.
“ We have seen fish in places where they have not been in almost 25 years,” said Preston Brown, director of watershed conservation for the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (Spawn).
California received more rainfall from October to December than in the previous 12 months, according to the Weather Service National.
The abundance of rain and snow reached time for the November-January spawning season in the resource-rich Tomales Bay watershed north of San Francisco, allowing some fish to arrive na tributaries of Lagunitas Creek, at least 13 miles inland in Marin County.
The rain could easily be a mere pause in the epic drought of 20 years of the state, which has complicated the efforts of water officials to keep fish, farms and growing cities supplied. Experts say the state needs several wet years in a row to replenish the reservoirs.
Meanwhile, the fish are benefiting, putting eggs in nests where the young will hatch and spend most of their juvenile lives. They will then swim out to the ocean as adults and then return to the same area to spawn.
“They like these really tiny streams, and that’s where their survivability is greatest,” said Todd Steiner, CEO of the Turtle Island Restoration Network, the parent group of Spawn. “If we give the fish the chance to fight to survive, they will come back”.
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