If the salmon wo n’t get along to the ocean , then the sea will fall to the Salmon River . Well , not quite : tank ship trucks will take them there . Such are the utmost measure in California this spring , as drouth forces major Salmon River hatcheries to funnel their fish into tanker trucks and twit them straight to the Pacific .
The Sacramento Bee reports that state and federal officials haveshaken manus on a planto shipping jillion of unseasoned Pisces the Fishes by tanker hand truck , if the ongoing drought does , in fact , make their traditional route — Sacramento River — too shallow and warm for them to survive .
The programme come to California ’s largest Salmon River hatchery , the Coleman National Fish Hatchery , which usually raise as many as 12 million salmon every year . usually , the Coleman would release its youthful Pisces into a Sacramento River affluent in April . But this year , official are set another plan into home :
The trucking plan , devised by the state and Union fisheries agencies , include a serial of gun trigger , establish on river and water system supplying conditions , that would found a monolithic operation to haul the Salmon River in tanker trucks on a nearly three - hour drive from Red Bluff to San Pablo Bay near Vallejo . There , the Salmon River would be released into blow net pens to acclimatize to new salinity and temperature conditions , then place gratis to swim for the ocean .
This is just one example of how intact natural summons are being replaced by human infrastructure , where bottled water or expensively trucked salmon stand in for when river — dammed , dried up , or contaminated — can no longer do the job .
The programme is n’t without peril , though : According to experts , the long , unearthly journeying could send the poor , sheltered Pisces the Fishes into a land of shock . That would make them far well-to-do for predator to nibble off . For now , officials will have to waitress and see — and pray for rainfall . [ Outside Online;The Sacramento Bee ]
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