Nearly 800,000 salmon babies died from a mysterious disease after they were just released into a California river to help improve their population in the stream.
The Chinook salmon died early last week after officials from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife released them into the Klamath River, which is situated above the Iron Gate Dam tunnel near at the California-Oregon border.
The dam on the 257-mile river was removed in November in an effort to let salmon, Pacific lamprey and steelheads access their habitat and to lower the presence of poor water quality.
The babies, which were just hatched at the new $35million Fall Creek Fish Hatchery, died from gas bubble disease that likely left the fish with lesions and caused their gills and fins to rupture.
‘The problems associated with the Iron Gate Dam tunnel are temporary and yet another sad reminder of how the Klamath River dams have harmed salmon runs for generations,’ the agency said.
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