California’s Salmon and Steelhead / Alan Lufkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lufkin, Alan, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to fewer than 300. River pollution has also hit hard at fish populations, which within recent decades have diminished by 80 percent. One species, the San Joaquin River spring chinook, became extinct soon after World War II. Other species are nearly extinct. This volume documents the reasons for the decline; it also offers practical suggestions about how the decline might be reversed. The California salmon story is presented here in human perspective: its broad historical, economic, cultural, and political facets, as well as the biological, are all treated. No comparable work has ever been published, although some of the material has been available for half a century. In the richly varied contributions in this volume, the reader meets Indians whose history is tied to the history of the salmon and steelhead upon which they depend; commercial trollers who see their livelihood and unique lifestyle vanishing; biologists and fishery managers alarmed at the loss of river water habitable by fish and at the effects of hatcheries on native gene pools. Women who fish, conservation-minded citizens, foresters, economists, outdoor writers, engineers, politicians, city youth restoring streambeds--all are represented. Their lives--and the lives of all Californians--are affected in myriad ways by the fate of California's salmon and steelhead. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating

to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter One. Historical Highlights

Chapter Two. The Klamath River Fishery

Chapter Three. North Coast Salmon and Steelhead and Their Habitat (1)

Chapter Four. The Passing of the Salmon

Chapter Five. Remember the San Joaquin

Chapter Six. Why All the Fuss About Preserving Wild Stocks of Salmon and Steelhead?

Chapter Seven. Forestry and Anadromous Fish

Chapter Eight. The Red Bluff Diversion Dam

Chapter Nine. The Sacramento River Winter Chinook Salmon

Chapter Ten. What's a Salmon Worth?

Chapter Eleven. The Human Side of Fishery Science

Chapter Twelve. Women and Fishing on the North Coast

Chapter Thirteen. The Lower Klamath Fishery

Chapter Fourteen. The Commercial Trailer

Chapter Fifteen. Rivers Do Not "Waste" to the Sea!

Chapter Sixteen. Steelie

Chapter Seventeen. The North Coast Water War

Chapter Eighteen. Water and Salmón Management in the 1990s

Chapter Nineteen. California Hatcheries

Chapter Twenty. Water and Salmon Management in the Central Valley

Chapter Twenty-one. The Century of the Farm and the Century of the Fish

Chapter Twenty-two. The Central Valley Project and the Public Trust Doctrine

Chapter Twenty-three. Sacramento River Problems and Opportunities

Chapter Twenty-four. The Salmon Stamp Program

Chapter Twenty-five. North Coast Salmon and Steelhead and Their Habitat (2)

Chapter Twenty-six. The CCC's Salmon Restoration Project

Chapter Twenty-seven. For the Sake of Salmon

Chapter Twenty-eight. Urban Stream Restoration

Chapter Twenty-nine. Saving the Steelhead

Summary and Conclusions

Abbreviations

Glossary

Suggested Reading

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520337855

0520337859

OCLC:

1198931418