Expert sends out SOS for California's fish
Posted: 11/19/2008 12:25:03 PM PST
Two-thirds of California's native salmon, trout and steelhead are headed for extinction unless major changes are made to the way the state's rivers are managed and protected, according to a report by one of the state's top fish experts.
"I was surprised that nobody has done an overview of what's happening to California trout and salmon. Nobody was looking at the big picture," Moyle said.
Still, Moyle said the breadth of the problem was escaping notice because biologists all were focused on problems with the particular species and rivers in which they were interested.
"You always had the feeling that somewhere there were good populations," Moyle said. "Things were much worse off collectively than I thought they were."
