This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, and they may vary from species to species.
This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, and they may vary from species to species.
Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin -- their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.
Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... got people's attention. That made it possible to start looking at this in great detail.
There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ecologically sound manner. It's hard to imagine a more important issue.
The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is a tough problem.
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