Tiny fly is why salmon thrive in Yolo Bypass
So, how do we get this fly into the delta and other tributaries?????
Read on...
The Sacramento Valley is a well-used landscape. After 160 years of mining and urbanizing, plowing and diverting, you'd think the environment would have given up all its secrets.
But a trio of local scientists recently unlocked a mystery about why young salmon grow faster during floods in the Yolo Bypass, and in the process they identified a new species.
full story at http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/903902.html