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California Department of Fish and Wildlife Awards $10.7M in Grants for Fisheries

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has announced 27 projects that will receive a total of $10.7 million in grants through the Fisheries Restoration Grant Project for fiscal year 2021. The projects are focused on restoring, enhancing, and protecting anadromous salmonid habitat in California watersheds.

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Fish Gun: Salmon shooting coming to a dam near you

You’ll believe a salmon can fly…

It sounds like something from a Monty Python skit or maybe even from a Sunday night Fox cartoon: launching salmon across a room.  It’s not.  It’s a business.

From  Adventure Journal:

Many Pacific Northwest dams, both large and small, lack fish ladders – effectively closing off hundreds of miles of habitat to endangered salmon and steelhead runs.

Now, biologists in central Washington are testing a new technology they hope could eventually transport salmonids to currently unreachable rivers: vacuum-pressurized tubes.

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