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Berryessa advocates fear drought will kill off kokanee fishery Todd R. Hansen
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Keith Blasco casts his rod into Lake Berryessa, hoping to catch some bass, at the Spanish Flat Recreation Area in 2014.
UC Davis students gear up for another year on Putah Creek Todd R. Hansen
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WINTERS — More than 3 miles of Putah Creek shoreline is located within the southern boundary of the University of California, Davis campus. Open to the public, the Putah Creek Riparian Reserve also serves as an outdoors land management and conservation laboratory for Davis students who are part of the One Creek Internship program. The reserve area also became a critical focal point during the Putah Creek Accord legal battles, a landmark agreement
that shapes the kind of environmental work and water-sharing policies taking place today. The university also owns about 2 miles of the creek banks on Russell Ranch. Andrew Fulks, director of the internship program and assistant director of the University of California, Davis Arboretum and Public Gardening, said while the curriculum and equipment used are funded through the university, the paid internships are banked by the Solano County Water Agency. With minimum wage See Creek, Page A9
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Students work at the UC Davis Putah Creek restoration project.
WINTERS — Tullie MacFarland has been fishing at Lake Berryessa for nearly 60 years. The Folsom resident, who was raised near Fresno and lived in Vacaville in her early 20s, said she comes out as much to be on the water as for the fishing, but probably would not do the one without the other. “I am concerned about the drought and the fishing,” MacFarland, 68, said while at Berryessa with a cousin May 20 for a day trip. “I cannot speak about fish planting or stocking or anything like that, but I know the fishing was pretty miserable a few years ago when the drought was really bad,” she said. She actually fishes more for bass than kokanee, but does both. Cameron Smith, 65, known in the area as Captain Cam, can speak about the fish planting at Lake Berryessa – or what he believes is better described as a very limited fish planting, at least salmon stocking. Combine that with the drought and Smith said kokanee anglers at Berryessa can expect the fishery to be destroyed if the state Department of Fish and Wildlife does not increase the planting program. “It’s almost guaranteed because we are going into this drought with less of a (kokanee) population than we did in 2014,” Smith said. He said the kokanee fishery was all but dead from 2014 to 2018. Kokanee are landlocked sockeye salmon. Ryan Watanabe, a fishery biologist for state Fish and Wildlife who has Lake Berryessa in his area, said Berryessa endures the droughts better than most lakes, though water temperature can be a concern. Kokanee prefer temperatures between 50 and 55.4 degrees, so as water levels drop, those temperatures rise. As far as kokanee distribution, this year Berryessa did better than some of the other 15 reservoirs that are stocked. “Our (traditional) annual allotment is 755,000 (fish statewide) and this year we released 602,690, which was about 80% of the target,” Watanabe said. Berryessa received its full 50,000 allotment of kokanee fingerlings, one of five lakes to receive that amount. Typically, eight reservoirs would get that level, so three received fewer than usual this year. Only Shasta Lake, with 150,000 fish, and Bullards Bar in Yuba County, with 60,000, received more, Watanabe said. Similarly, Lake Berryessa received 60,000 chinook, or King salmon, which ranked fifth among the 10 lakes that are stocked. Berryessa traditionally would be one of four lakes See Fishery, Page A9
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Biden targets racial, social inequities with spending push
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CUPERTINO — In their first extended interview, the family of the VTA shooter who unleashed the Bay Area’s deadliest mass shooting this week said Friday he felt “lost” to them for months. He was often tense, said his sister, Ann, “quick to suspect bad intentions toward him,” and
“verging on paranoia.” But when Sam Cassidy showed up to his parents’ house on Monday to take his mother’s car for a smog test, “he seemed fine,” his father said Friday. There was “no hint,” 89-year-old James Cassidy said, that about 36 hours later, his son would go on a shooting rampage at the Valley
Transportation Authority rail yard in San Jose, killing nine coworkers before turning the gun on himself in a burst of violence that has once again shaken the nation. “Something must have happened” at work Tuesday to set him off, his sister told the Bay Area News group, in See Family, Page A9
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget request proposes record spending to reduce historical disparities in underserved communities, following his campaign pledge to promote racial equity as an inseparable part of rebuilding the economy. In the 1,740 pages
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