This is pure BS and I suspect the plaintiffs came up with this jive to sway the court. Every year fish are stranded by high water flows we call spring "freshets" and become easy prey for...gulp..."endangered birds and mammals". From 72 till 92 we owned a fishing lodge for our private use on the Klamath at Weitchpec upriver fron the confluence of the Trinity.
Now here is a rub for you. On the Trinity these socialist have won a huge increase in the release of water from Trinity lake. So much water that there are warnings posted this weekend to all river users for exceedingly high and swift flows . How many fish will stranded by this man made flood???
All of this is in todays Times-Standard.com
Trinity River will be blown out in the flyfishing only section, dam to Old Lewiston Bridge, from 30 April to 28 May due to the recent court decision to return Trinity flows to more "natural" flows for this time of year.
There is nothing normal about these flows. This is one of those sections where the fish are protected and like to just take their time to eat bugs, grow and slowly go downstream. They will be ripped downstream for 4 weeks.
Wonder if some of these ripped out fish due to high/fast and cold water are what the liars who represent the enviralist are talking about. More than likely any young stranded fish down stream is stranded due to high water and the fish using too much energy to keep from drowning. Yes fish will drown if they become too weak.
Of course know the lynx hair planters, they probably froze fish from last years run and took the frozen body's out and threw them in the river.