Shifting Baselines Blog

4/6 - Salmon Crisis: California salmon fishermen up against the wall

Bad times for California salmon fishermen. We sent a cameraman to Sacramento to cover their rally on Tuesday morning -- we'll have a short film about it soon. From the LA Times article about it: "You could save all the salmon in the ocean, but they're going to die when they reach the Klamath River," said Scott Smith, a sport fisherman from Fort Bragg, Calif.

It's kind of a sad day when even the environmentalists who have been battling the fishermen feel bad for the mess they have been dealt with the Klamath River