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University of California - Santa Cruz

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A water management strategy designed to benefit both green sturgeon and winter-run chinook salmon, while also meeting the needs of agricultural water users downstream, is shown in these diagrams. The top panel shows temperatures in the Sacramento River under historical conditions, before Shasta Dam was built. Under the optimal management scenario proposed in the paper, low flows of warmer water can be released early in the season (April and May) when only green sturgeon are spawning; moderate flows in June and July benefit both species; and late in the season (July to November), high flows of cold water can be released to benefit salmon and meet agricultural water needs.

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Zarri et al., 2019

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