Berkeley Marina’s last full-time salmon fisherman plans to abandon the sea
It’s a Saturday in September and [Yvette] Hudson can expect to sell all her fish, as she does three times a week. It’s good money, but it isn’t enough, and by the end of the year she and her husband, Mike, will be quitting the commercial fishing business after 25 years. … Water diversion and habitat loss continue to threaten the population of wild salmon migrating between freshwater and saltwater. An even more serious problem is looming. This year’s heat wave and extended drought imperiled the Chinook population as warm rivers killed salmon eggs.
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