[bedolido]

The Klamath is a beautiful river. I love that area of Oregon. Sad to see this happening again.

[KarlInOhio]

could be setting up a repeat of the 2000 event, which killed an estimated 250,000 fry.

How many fish are spawned? If 250,000 of 300,000 die, that is a huge problem. If 250,000 of 250,000,000 die, then it isn't much of a problem. 250,000 by itself means nothing.

[Iconoclast2]

If this were happening on any other river, we'd be hearing how it was the hatchery's fault for releasing inferior fish.

[farmfriend]

Correct me if I'm wrong, please. I don't remember this happening prior to the Klamath water shut off. Now that the water is back on, we have fish kills two years in a row that support the water shut off? Something is very fishy here and we are not talking salmon.

As usual, if you want on or off the list, let me know.

[sasquatch]

The part of the river in question is in California.
Still nice though.

[fish hawk]

PING

Sasquatch knows. The Klamath River starts in Oregon from the upper and lower Klamath Lakes but the other 95% of the river is in Calif. It hits the ocean about 30 miles south of the Oregon border at a little town called Klamath also. It is Yurok Indian Reservation one mile on each side of the river and upstream for almost 50 miles. Aloha

[tubebender]

A recent change in operations will provide more water for fish in the late summer and fall, but little additional water was provided for late spring.

The lower Klamath drainage had one of the wettest winters on record and there is lots of water in the river plus the Trinitys flows have been increased to near flood stage from Trinity Lake. This could a big setback for the "we need more water crowd" if the kill grows.

[jetson]

Probrably due to the scrothy weed smokers swimming in the river up stream.

[marsh2]

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/rt

The Scott has been running higher later in the season than I have seen it in years. It has begun to drop down. We had a great snowpack and it snowed later in the season. There is still snow on the mountain tops around the valley. The Scott is now at 599 cubic ft per second. The past 60 year median is around 410 for this time. (Minimum 12, mean 515.)

Iron Gate dam is currently at 1050 cu. ft./sec. The 41 year median is about 750. (Minimum 446, mean 936.) Shasta River is currently at 88 cu. ft/sec. Median is about 25, minimum 2.6 and mean 57.2 on 17 year records.

The article's allegations are rubbish.

It does seem that the fish kills are always down in the Klamath canyon regardless of flows. Tells me that the problem is down there and not flow related.