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The Fisherman's Wharf => Off-Topic => Topic started by: trapper2000 on Aug 10, 2018, 10:03 AM

Title: CA wildfire
Post by: trapper2000 on Aug 10, 2018, 10:03 AM

watching the CA wildfires  and I feel  so sorry for the people  i'm also wondering  would problems will this cause  for not just the CA fishery  but  will it hurt the steelhead and salmon runs in OR and WA????the skys are  filled with  smoke

Title: Re: CA wildfire
Post by: filetandrelease on Aug 11, 2018, 06:31 AM

Last report I saw was maybe by the end of the month they may have it contained , truly devastating

Title: Re: CA wildfire
Post by: taxid on Aug 11, 2018, 06:35 AM

Quote from: trapper2000 on Aug 10, 2018, 10:03 AM

watching the CA wildfires  and I feel  so sorry for the people  i'm also wondering  would problems will this cause  for not just the CA fishery  but  will it hurt the steelhead and salmon runs in OR and WA????the skys are  filled with  smoke

Depends on how it affects the watersheds. Could cause turbid water when the rains do come which will reduce survivability of the eggs. And of course due to the drought I'm sure the flows are way down.

Read somewhere that when the west was first settled it was an unusually wet period which fooled the settlers into thinking that was normal. What's scary is core samples from natural lakes in the upper west have shows droughts lasting decades and even longer were not unusually in prehistoric times.