California: Grapegrowers Accused in Fish Kill
California: Grapegrowers Accused in Fish Kill
May 10, 2011 6
Santa Rosa, Calif.—Before 8 a.m. on April 29, a federal agent and a fisheries biologist found 159 juvenile steelhead trout stranded along a branch of the Russian River in Mendocino County; 21 were confirmed dead. According to Dan Torquemada, assistant special agent in charge, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Santa Rosa, Calif., office had been contacted by a “concerned individual” earlier that morning. The surviving fish were relocated to a flowing channel in a rescue effort that spanned two hours.
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