Salmon Continue to Thrive in Flooded Rice Fields
From the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA):
“A multi-year experiment near Sacramento is shedding more light on how inundated rice fields can be a productive environment for rearing salmon. …
“Carson Jeffres, a researcher with the Center for Watershed Sciences, discussed the preliminary findings from the 2013 experiment during a presentation at the Cal/EPA headquarters building in Sacramento on Monday, Sept. 9. The research confirmed that the salmon fry grow rapidly in the flooded fields, but some external factors appear to have had a big impact on the results.”