What happened to California's salmon season this year?

As Baykeeper science director
Jon Rosenfield points out, the blame lies firmly with the state.
Gov. Newsom is actively blocking water quality updates that would protect fish, the environment, Tribal groups & communities across the state https://kqed.org/science/1983312/what-happened-to-californias-salmon-season-this-year #CAWater #WaterJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #CaliforniaWater #Salmon

Indigenous leaders & environmental groups gathered at the Capitol yesterday to rally for #WaterJustice and specifically in support of 3 bills that would revamp the state’s approach to water rights.

As Baykeeper community advocate Julia Dowell noted, the new bills aim to "create a California where it's not just certain folks who have had this power for so long, who are getting all the water and who can illegally divert water with almost no penalty.” https://www.capradio.org/articles/2023/07/06/tribal-leaders-environmental-groups-rally-for-a-better-water-rights-system/ #CAwater #CaliforniaWater #environmentaljustice

📣 The Day of Action is coming up soon, next Wed. July 5!

Join us to demand action for #WaterJustice & #salmon at the State Capitol in Sacramento 🌊

Learn more and register at: https://linktr.ee/Day_of_Action

#CAwater #environmentaljustice #californiawater #environment

📢 Urgent action alert: Newsom is trying to push bad water policy through the budget process—so we're fighting back!

Help us get the message to CA legislators to reject Newsom's disastrous water proposals: https://baykeeper.org/blog/take-action-against-newsoms-disastrous-water-proposals

#CAwater #Newsom #CaliforniaWater #WaterJustice #WaterIsLife

@DeniseGutzmer @ai6yr This is what California looks like now. New stringent water use guidelines/rules are needed going forward. #californiawater

Have you ever seen a wild #salmon? 🐟

The once-common experience of seeing these native fish in the wild is becoming increasingly rare as salmon populations plummet.

But the #Chinook salmon’s demise isn't due to overfishing or #drought. The responsibility lies solidly with state government officials, as Sejal Choksi-Chugh writes in her latest column ▶️ https://baykeeper.org/news/column/have-you-ever-seen-wild-salmon

#CAwater #wildlife #fish #fishing #californiawater #endangeredspecies

...the Biden admin on Tues. proposed...evenly cutting water allotments, reducing the water delivered to CA, AZ, and NV by as much as one-quarter.

U.S. proposes cuts to water in 3 states.

https://nwaonline.com/news/2023/apr/12/us-proposes-cuts-to-water-in-3-states/

#Water #ColoradoRiverWater #ClimateChange #CaliforniaWater #ArizonaWater #NevadaWater

🌧️ It’s been a rainy spring in CA, but the state's water woes remain. How the crisis is handled will be emulated across the globe.

Get an inside look at the fight for fresh water by watching RIVER'S END, airing on PBS all month, including on KQED this Saturday at 6pm!

https://baykeeper.org/content/catch-rivers-end-pbs #california #californiawater #cawater #drought #flood #watercrisis #earthmonth #earthday

The proposed voluntary agreements assume that more habitat = more 🐟🐟🐟 — but fish need healthy river flows first & foremost:
"They're trading 'habitat' for flow, but this doesn't have a basis in science," as our science director
@jarosenfield says in the latest edition of Estuary News: https://archive.estuarynews.org/va-agreement-highlights-habitat-questions/ #water #cawater #californiawater #fish #endangeredspecies #californiadelta #sanfranciscobay #baydelta

Last fall, our supporters helped convince US officials to renegotiate unsustainable #water contracts—but the fight's not over yet!

📢 Help us make sure Reclamation takes advantage of this rare opportunity to restore the #SanJoaquinRiver & its #salmon:
https://baykeeper.org/SanJoaquinRiver

#cawater #californiawater #fish #wildlife

"If the governor won't adhere to the state regulations in what is clearly a wet year, when will he?"

The Mercury News/East Bay Times Editorial Board calls out Newsom for taking a page out of Trump's playbook & caving to #BigAg at the cost of the Delta ecosystem: https://mercurynews.com/2023/03/01/editorial-when-it-comes-to-water-newsom-is-hardly-an-environmentalist/ #cawater #californiawater #californiadelta #gavinnewsom

"There's not much difference between a world without environmental laws and a world where, at the stroke of a governor's pen, environmental laws are eviscerated," @jarosenfield says of Newsom's Executive Order to suspend environmental protections for the Sacramento-San Joaquin #Delta: https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/newsom-environmental-laws-store-more-delta-water/ #cawater #baydelta #californiawater

Photos show Lake Oroville's rise after epic storms. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-12/photos-show-lake-oroville-rise-after-epic-storms

(By @hayleysmith and Brian van der Brug at @latimes, who I hope will become active on Mast.)

#California #CaliforniaStorms #CaliforniaWater #LakeOroville

There's been a flood of misinformation about #CAWater in recent weeks -- and this misinformation undermines progress, constructive dialogue, and trust in solving the state's formidable #water challenges, as NRDC's Doug Obegi writes: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/doug-obegi/fighting-flood-misinformation-about-ca-water #californiawater

Latest #cawater news media stories via the San Diego Water District:

💧First Aqueduct Maintenance Shutdown Jan. 23-Feb. 1

💧Colorado River Water Negotiators Optimistic Ahead of Deadline

💧California Weather Forecasters Bolstered by Airborne Researchers Diving Into Atmospheric Rivers✈️
#water #Californiawater
https://www.waternewsnetwork.com/media-coverage/

Atmospheric River filling up CA Reservoirs. Happy effing New Year hydro homies!! #CADWR #CaliforniaWater

Today’s story in the LA Times by @ianjames has left me wondering about the future of agriculture, water, and wildlife in Northern California.
“California harvested the state’s smallest rice crop since the severe drought of 1977-78, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.” #California #drought #CaliforniaWater #rice #food #farming #climate
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-11-23/drought-cost-california-agriculture-1-7-billion-this-year

Last month, hundreds of people urged the Bureau of Reclamation to renegotiate water contracts that have allowed private interests to drain the San Joaquin River dry, decimating salmon populations—& your voices were heard! 🥳

But the fight isn't over yet. Sign our updated petition to restore the #SanJoaquinRiver https://baykeeper.org/SanJoaquinRiver #cawater #salmon #californiawater