California’s Salmon and Steelhead 1st Edition by Alan Lufkin ISBN 0520337859 9780520337855

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ISBN 10: 0520337859 

ISBN 13: 9780520337855

Author: Alan Lufkin 

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. 

Table of contents:

Part One. Historical Perspectives
Chapter One. Historical Highlights
Chapter Two. The Klamath River Fishery — Early History
Chapter Three. North Coast Salmon and Steelhead and Their Habitat (1)
Chapter Four. The Passing of the Salmon
Chapter Five. Remember the San Joaquin

Part Two. Current Perspectives
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 — Threatened with Extinction
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 — Recent Times
Chapter Fourteen. The Commercial Trailer
Chapter Fifteen. Rivers Do Not “Waste” to the Sea!
Chapter Sixteen. Steelie

Part Three. Restoration Efforts. Political-Legal Perspectives
Chapter Seventeen. The North Coast Water War — An Interview with Peter Behr
Chapter Eighteen. Water and Salmon Management in the 1990s
Chapter Nineteen. California Hatcheries — They’ve Gone About as Fer as They Can Go!
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

Part Four. Restoration Efforts. Local Perspectives
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

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