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Restoration of the San Joaquin River - KQED QUEST

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Uploaded by on Jun 11, 2010

Flowing 330 miles from the Sierras to the delta, the San Joaquin River is California's second longest river. It once boasted one of the state's great salmon runs. But since the construction of Friant Dam near Fresno in the 1940s, most of the San Joaquin's water has been siphoned off to farmland in the Central Valley. Now, after years of lawsuits, a new effort to restore the river is offering hope that fish and farmers can co-exist.

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  • I don't know how they expect the salmon to become "native" as the places that were the spawning grounds for the extinct San Joaquin salmon was upstream from Friant dam so it would seem that a "native" salmon couldn't become self-sustaining. Is DFG planning to build a hatchery near Friant dam?

  • Great story, thank you

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