Salmon’s Struggle in the Shasta

22/05/2021
Salmon’s Struggle in the Shasta

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Episode Synopsis

The Shasta River should be chock full of salmon. (It was, after all, the largest salmon producing tributary to the Klamath prior to Euro-American colonization.) The sweet waters of the Shasta have the perfect combination of elements to help grow big, fat fish: low velocity and a prime gravel bed, key nutrients, and cold, clean […]