Ongoing fish kill on the Klamath River is an ‘absolute worst-case scenario’
Unprecedented drought in the Klamath Basin leaves communities wondering how they will make it through the summer.
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Around 70% of the juvenile salmon collected by the Yurok Fisheries Department’s in-river trapping device have been dead, killed by a warm water disease, C. shasta, accelerated by drought on the Klamath River.
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Jamie Holt, a Yurok Fisheries Department technician, examines a juvenile salmon on the stretch of the Klamath River that flows through the Yurok Reservation.
Matt Mais/Yurok Tribe
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