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</div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">Marine Sanctuaries: The Secret Report the White House Doesn’t Want You to Read</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2505498028" data-authors="Surfrider Foundation" data-headline="Marine Sanctuaries: The Secret Report the White House Doesn’t Want You to Read" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description" style="">By Pete StaufferIt's a simple choice, really. Do we want our National Marine Sanctuaries to be used for recreation, education, fishing and ecological protection? Or do we want to hand these ocean gems over the oil and gas industry so they can expand <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/offshore-oil-drilling" style="text-decoration-line: none;">offshore drilling</a> off our coasts?For the past six months, the federal administration has been studying this very question. Following the Trump administration's <a href="http://www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog/entry/trump-signs-executive-order-to-expand-offshore-oil-drilling" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Executive Order</a>: The America First Energy Strategy, the Department of Commerce began a review of five National Marine Sanctuaries (including all four off California's coast) and six Marine Monuments to determine if these sites might be exploited for energy development. As part of the process, they invited the public to share their thoughts on the matter. The input received was unequivocal: don't mess with our sanctuaries!According to an <a href="https://blog.marine-conservation.org/2017/08/overwhelming-support-for-marine-monuments-and-sanctuaries.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">analysis</a> by the <a href="https://marine-conservation.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Marine Conservation Institute</a>, roughly 99 percent of public comments collected at regulations.gov expressed support for maintaining Marine Sanctuaries and Monuments as they currently exist. In all, nearly 100,000 citizens spoke out on the issue, demonstrating broad and diverse support for sanctuaries including Channel Islands, Monterey Bay, Cordell Bank and the Greater Farallones. Moreover, seven coastal counties in California, from Ventura to Humboldt, passed resolutions affirming local government support for Sanctuaries.This brings us to the secret report. On Oct. 25, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/27/trump-gets-report-that-could-open-national-marine-sanctuaries-to-oil-drilling/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">submitted</a> his recommendations to President Trump on National Marine Sanctuaries and Monuments based on the agency's review of the issue. The only problem? No one from the public is allowed to read it. Yes, that's right. Despite a review process ostensibly based on public input, the administration's plans for our National Marine Sanctuaries are being kept a secret.One might assume that no action will be taken against Marine Sanctuaries, based on the overwhelming public support expressed. Yet, given the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/10/27/trump-says-he-will-shrink-bears-ears-national-monument-a-sacred-tribal-site-in-utah/?utm_term=.67b763df9c03&wpisrc=al_environment__alert-hse&wpmk=1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">recent news</a> that protections for National Monuments will be scaled back by the administration, following similar (and equally overwhelming) public sentiment expressed, it's clear that the risk is very real. Add the fact that the report is being kept under wraps, and the urgency of the matter becomes even more clear....</div></div></div><div>
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Background: Brown continues and expands Schwarzenegger's terrible environmental policies

The rush to build the peripheral tunnels, in spite of widespread

opposition, is not the only abysmal Schwarzenegger administration

environmental policy that the Brown administration has continued and

expanded. Brown continued and expanded the massive water exports and

fish kills at the Delta pumps that the Schwarzenegger regime became

notorious for.

The Brown administration authorized the export of record water

amounts of water from the Delta in 2011 – 6,520,000 acre-feet, 217,000

acre feet more than the previous record of 6,303,000 acre feet set in

2005 under the Schwarzenegger administration.

Brown also presided over the "salvage" of a record 9 million

Sacramento splittail and over 2 million other fish including Central

Valley salmon, steelhead, striped bass, largemouth bass, threadfin shad,

white catfish and sturgeon in 2011. (<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/07/carnage-in-the-pumps/">http://www.counterpunch.org/...</a>)

In addition, Brown and Natural Resources Secretary John Laird

continued the privately-funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA)

Initiative started by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2004. The conflicts of

interest, failure to comprehensively protect the ocean, shadowy private

funding, incomplete and terminally flawed science and violation of the

Yurok Tribe's traditional harvesting rights have made the MLPA

Initiative to create so-called "marine protected areas into one of the

worst examples of corporate greenwashing in California history.

In a huge conflict of interest, Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of

the Western States Petroleum Association, chaired the Marine Life

Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force to create

so-called "marine protected areas" in Southern California. Reheis-Boyd,

the oil industry's lead lobbyist for fracking, offshore oil drilling,

the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline and the evisceration of

environmental laws, also served on the MLPA task forces for the North

Coast, North Central Coast and Central Coast.

Other environmental policies of the Schwarzenegger administration

that Brown and Laird have continued include engineering the collapse of

six Delta fish populations by pumping massive quantities of water out of

the Delta; presiding over the annual stranding of endangered coho

salmon on the Scott and Shasta rivers; clear cutting forests in the

Sierra Nevada; supporting legislation weakening the California

Environmental Water Quality Act (CEQA); and embracing the corruption and

conflicts of interests that infest California environmental processes

and government bodies ranging from the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to

the regional water boards.

Now Brown has apparently expanded his war on fish, rivers, the ocean

and the environment to the First Amendment as he confiscates signs of

those who oppose the peripheral tunnels. What will Caltrans do next -

start pulling bumper stickers off the vehicles of peripheral tunnel

opponents?

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Fri Mar 15, 2013 at 06:44 PM PDT

<h2><a id="titleHref" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/15/1194465/-Peripheral-tunnel-water-will-go-to-agribusiness-and-oil-companies">Peripheral tunnel water will go to agribusiness and oil companies </a></h2>

by <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/user/Dan%20Bacher">Dan Bacher</a><a class="type-user do-hotlist do-updateContent size-tiny off altTooltip ajaxON" alt="Follow this author" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/15/1194465/-Peripheral-tunnel-water-will-go-to-agribusiness-and-oil-companies#?friend_id=263646&is_stream=1">Follow</a>

Missed in the mainstream media coverage of the release of the revised

Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) documents on March 14 was the

alarming role the peripheral tunnels could play in increased fracking in

California.

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the controversial,

environmentally destructive process of injecting millions of gallons of

water, sand and toxic chemicals underground at high pressure in order to

release and extract oil or gas, according to Food and Water Watch.

The oil industry, represented by Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of

the Western States Petroleum Association and the former chair of the

Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force to

create so-called "marine protected areas" in Southern California, is now

pushing for increasing fracking for oil and natural gas in shale

deposits in Kern County and coastal areas.

However, Adam Scow, the California Campaigns Director of Food and

Water Watch, hasn't missed the connection between fracking and Governor

Brown's plan to build the tunnels - and urges Californians to speak out

against the corporate water grab.

"Governor Brown has proposed building two massive $50 billion water

tunnels to divert the Sacramento River to corporate interests in the

Central Valley," said Scow. "Most of the water will go to large

agribusiness and oil companies while taxpayers will be stuck with the

bill."

"The Westlands Water District and Kern County Water Agency import

water for the biggest agribusinesses and oil fields in the Central

Valley," explained Scow. "Now they've gotten Governor Brown to approve a

massive tunnels project to bring them even more water, which they will

sell for an enormous profit. Even worse, much of this water will go to

oil companies who will pollute our groundwater with fracking. Help put a

stop to this corporate water grab by asking Governor Brown to protect

our state's precious water."

Scow emphasized that most Californians would see no benefit from this

massive water project, but we will be left with the $50 billion price

tag. Local water projects to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and

expand stormwater and rainwater systems would provide local jobs and

better water security for much less.

"It's absurd that Governor Brown wants to make us taxpayers pay to

redirect the Sacramento River so that oil companies and huge

agribusinesses can make even more profits," said Scow. "Not only would

we spend billions on a wasteful project that serves only to pad the

pockets of corporate interests, we would be helping oil and gas

companies contaminate our already precious water with fracking. Stand up

and tell Governor Brown that we won't pay the water bill for

agribusinesses and oil companies."

He urges people to speak out against the $50 billion tunnels today:

<a href="https://secure3.convio.net/fww/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=329">https://secure3.convio.net/...</a>

How the BDCP will advance Big Oil's agenda

Burt Wilson, Editor and Publisher of Public Water News Service

(bwilson5404 [at] sbcglobal.net), also contends that the "hidden agenda"

of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to build twin tunnels is to provide

water for the environmentally destructive process of fracking in

California. (<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/26/1189970/-The-BDCP-s-Hidden-Agenda-Water-for-Fracking">http://www.dailykos.com/...</a>)

Wilson said the "hidden scenario" goes like this: "Gov. Brown wants

twin tunnels in the Delta. He won't allow a public vote on a water bond,

so six water agencies, headed by the Westlands Water District and the

Metropolitan Water District have formed a business consortium called the

State and Federal Water Contractors Association (SFWCA). These six will

be the primary funders of the $14-16 billion revenue stream needed to

build and initially operate the twin tunnels."

"Is the SFWCA doing this as a service to the people of California? Of

course not. Like all financiers, they expect to make a huge profit. Why

else invest $14-billion?" asked Wilson.

Wilson said the SFWCA will "make its money back through handling

water transfers from northern California reservoirs, water banks and

aquifers--or any way they can get it--to sell at auction the the highest

bidder, in this case the oil/gas companies inflated prices to the oil

companies who will pay any price to get it."

"Currently in Greely, CO, the water agencies are selling water to

farmers for $30 an acre foot while oil companies are paying $3,300.00 an

acre foot!" noted Wilson. "Given that water transfers from northern

California total about 1,200,000 acre feet a year, the SFWCA, at that

rate, would earn almost $4-billion a year! Not a bad return on

investment!"

"And here's how they'll do it: let's say some northern California

water bank wants to sell 500 acre feet of water," he explained. "That

water is then released into the Sacramento River north of the Capital

City. At the same time, one or all three of the twin tunnel intakes on

the Sacramento River near Hood will suck 500 acre feet out of the river

and into the twin tunnels to be pumped south to the SFWCA."

"Note that no 'additional' water has been taken out of the Delta and

the transfer is consistent with the State Water Code which mandates that

we 'reduce reliance on the Delta,'" said Wilson.

The increasing power of big oil in California and MLPA Initiative green washing

The drive by the oil and natural gas industry to frack California is

highlighted by recent disturbing developments that reveal the enormous

power of Big Oil in the state.

In yet one more example of the revolving door between government and

huge corporations that defines politics in California now, State Senator

Michael Rubio (D-Bakersfield) on February 22 suddenly announced his

resignation from office in order to take a “government affairs” position

at Chevron.

Rubio went to work for Chevron just two months after alleged “marine

protected areas,” overseen by the President of the Western States

Petroleum Association, a coastal real estate developer, a marina

corporation executive and other corporate interests, went into effect on

California’s North Coast.

These “marine protected areas,” created under the privately funded

Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative, fail to protect the ocean

from fracking, oil drilling, pollution, wind and wave energy projects,

military testing and all human impacts other than fishing and gathering.

In a big scandal largely ignored by the mainstream media, Catherine

Reheis-Boyd, the President of the Western States Petroleum Association,

not only chaired the Marine Life Protection Act Blue Ribbon Task Force

to create so-called "marine protected areas" on the South Coast, but

also served on the task forces to create “marine reserves” on the North

Coast, North Central Coast and South Coast.

"It's clear that government and petroleum officials want to 'frack'

in the very same areas Reheis-Boyd was appointed to oversee as a

'guardian' of marine habitat protection for the MLPA 'Initiative,'" said

David Gurney, independent journalist and co-chair of the Ocean

Protection Coalition, in his report on the opening of new lease-sales

for fracking. (<a href="http://noyonews.net/?p=8215">http://noyonews.net/...</a>)

"What's becoming obvious is that Reheis-Boyd's expedient presence on

the 'Blue Ribbon Task Force' for the MLPAI was a ploy for the oil

industry to make sure no restrictions applied against drilling or

fracking in or around so-called marine protected areas," Gurney

emphasized.

The current push by the oil industry to expand fracking in

California, build the Keystone XL Pipeline and eviscerate environmental

laws is only possible because state officials and MLPA Initiative

advocates greenwashed the key role Reheis-Boyd and the oil industry

played in creating marine protected areas that don’t protect the ocean.

Reheis-Boyd apparently used her role as a state marine "protection"

official to increase her network of influence in California politics to

the point where the Western States Petroleum Association has become the

most powerful corporate lobby in California. (<a href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/lawsuit-filed-against-fracking-oil-lobbyist-says-its-safe">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/...</a>)

Oil and gas companies spend more than $100 million a year to buy

access to lawmakers in Washington and Sacramento, according to Stop

Fooling California (<a href="http://www.stopfoolingca.org">http://www.stopfoolingca.org</a>),

an online and social media public education and awareness campaign that

highlights oil companies' efforts to mislead and confuse Californians.

The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) alone has spent more

than $16 million lobbying in Sacramento since 2009.

Now many of the same MLPA Initiative advocates who embraced

Reheis-Boyd in her role as a "marine guardian" are supporting the

fast-tracking of the most environmentally destructive project in

California history under the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.

As the oil industry expands its role in California politics and

environmental processes, you can bet that they are going to use every

avenue they can to get more water for fracking, including taking Delta

water through the planned twin tunnels.

"Why should we spend $50 billion to help the oil industry frack our state?" asked Scow.

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Wed Jan 09, 2013 at 06:20 PM PST

<h2><a id="titleHref" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/09/1177724/-Cold-Dead-Fish-Awards-2012-Go-To-Jerry-Brown-Secretary-John-Laird">Cold, Dead Fish Awards 2012 Go To Jerry Brown, Secretary John Laird </a></h2>

by <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/user/Dan%20Bacher">Dan Bacher</a><a class="type-user do-hotlist do-updateContent size-tiny off altTooltip ajaxON" alt="Follow this author" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/09/1177724/-Cold-Dead-Fish-Awards-2012-Go-To-Jerry-Brown-Secretary-John-Laird#?friend_id=263646&is_stream=1">Follow</a>

In my many years of reporting, 2012 was one of the biggest for the

future of fisheries and the environment in California. Unfortunately,

much of the news wasn’t positive.

The year began and ended with milestones in the implementation of the

privately funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative on the

California coast. The marine protected areas for the South Coast,

created under the helm of a big oil lobbyist, went into effect on

January 1, 2011.

Then the DFG surprisingly announced in December, in a series of press

releases, that the “marine protected areas on the North would go into

effect weeks earlier than expected on December 21, supposedly completing

the network along the entire California coast. These MPAs went into

effect, in spite of the fact that they based on “incomplete and

terminally flawed science” and violate the Yurok Tribe's traditional

gathering rights.

In other bad news, the Brown and Obama administrations jointly

announced their plan to go forward with the Bay Delta Conservation Plan

to build the fish-killing peripheral tunnels on July 25.

In the same vein, the fall midwater trawl survey completed on

December 31 by the CDFW revealed that the population of threadfin shad

plummeted to its lowest ever number, while Sacramento splittail, longfin

smelt and American shad reached their second lowest recorded abundance.

Striped bass and Delta smelt hit their seventh lowest abundance levels.

More positive news took place on the salmon fishing front. Ocean

anglers enjoyed the best fishing season on the California coast from

April through November since the closure spurred by the collapse of

2008-2009. The river fishing was behind that of 2011, but still very

good, particularly on the Feather River.

However, the salmon population is still well behind historical

standards and the doubling of salmon populations that is required by

federal law. According to a salmon index released by the GGSA and NRDC

in November, the Central Valley Chinook salmon fishery has suffered a

dramatic collapse over the past decade, now standing at only 13 percent

of the doubling of the population goal required by federal law.

Now we go to our awards “ceremony” for those that did their best to

destroy our fish populations, eviscerate fishing rights and lobby for

corporate interests.

In a move widely applauded by anglers, Jane Lubchenco announced that

she will be resigning from her position as NOAA Administrator under

President Obama. Lubchenco was notorious for her “catch shares” program,

a scam to make fishermen into sharecroppers by concentrating fisheries

into fewer, more corporate hands. She receives the “Good Riddance, Jane”

award for her efforts to privatize public trust fisheries.

Catherine Reheis-Boyd, President of the Western States Petroleum

Association and chair of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Blue

Ribbon Task Force for the South Coast, receives the “Oil and Water Don’t

Mix” award. The unlikely “marine guardian” presided over the creation

of alleged “marine protected areas” that fail to protect the ocean from

oil drilling and spills, pollution, military testing, wind and wave

energy projects and other human impacts other than fishing and

gathering. Meanwhile, Reheis-Boyd was relentlessly pushing for offshore

oil drilling, the expansion of the environmentally destructive practice

of fracking, the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline and the

evisceration of environmental laws.

As "marine guardian" Reheis-Boyd lobbied for Big Oil, the Walton

Family Foundation in April 2012 proudly reported "investments" totaling

more than $71.4 million in "environmental initiatives" in 2011. These

included contributions to corporate "environmental" NGOs pushing ocean

privatization through "catch shares" programs and so-called "marine

protected areas" like those created under Arnold Schwarzenegger's Marine

Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative, as well as to groups promoting

the destruction of the Delta through the construction of the peripheral

tunnels.

The top five grantees were Conservation International, $16,208,278;

Environmental Defense Fund, $13,683,709; the Marine Stewardship Council

$3,122,500; Nature Conservancy $3,024,539, and the National Audubon

Society, $2,739,859. For their role in corporate greenwashing in

California and around the world, the Walton Family Foundation gets the

"Walmarting the Oceans" award.

Westlands Water District, one of the consistent recipients of “Cold,

Dead Fish”awards in past years and the largest water district in the

world, is notorious as the “Darth Vader” of California water

politics.They are the biggest pushers of the peripheral canal or tunnel

and have launched numerous lawsuits to stop the restoration of salmon

and other species on the Trinity, Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.

However, they reached a new low in October when they masqueraded as

the “Central Valley Tea Party” to instigate opposition to RTD’s film

documenting the public subsidies of water for huge, unsustainable

corporate agribusiness on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley.

“It is hilarious that Westlands – huge growers who receive millions

upon millions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize their unsustainable

practices wants to hide behind anti-tax groups. What utter hypocrisy,”

summed up Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the

Delta. With this in mind, it is fitting that Westlands and Central

Valley Tea Party are bestowed the “Corporate Welfare Queen” award for

2012.

Another corporate agribusiness interest that hides behind Astroturf

groups is Stewart Resnick, the agribusiness tycoon who owns Paramount

Farms including over 120,000 acres in Kern County. His Astroturf Group,

the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, launched a lawsuit in 2008 that

attempted to exterminate striped bass, blaming them for the decline of

Central valley salmon. The DFG and the Coalition reached a settlement to

submit new regulations liberalizing striped bass size and bag limits to

the Fish and Game Commission.

Fortunately, the California Fish and Game Commission, in a unanimous

4-0 decision, voted not to pursue a proposal that would have increased

bag limits and decreased size limits for anadromous striped bass. For

his underhanded action, Resnick is proudly given the “Dead, Rotting

Striped Bass” award for 2012.

As Resnick's group attempted to exterminate striped bass,

Representative Jeff Denham (R-Modesto) did the bidding of corporate

agribusiness by introducing legislation, HR 2578, to strip wild and

scenic status from a section of the Merced River above Lake McClure in

order to expand capacity of the reservoir.

The measure passed the House but hasn't been taken up yet by the

Senate. "It takes incredible gall to think you can just put reservoirs

on permanently protected rivers," said Ron Stork, policy director for

Friends of the River. Denham receives the "Vandalizing Our Legacy" award

for initiating a campaign to begin carving pieces out our national wild

and scenic system for the first time in U.S. history.

The “Nuke the Whales” award goes to the Pacific Gas and Electric

Company for developing a seismic testing plan off the Diablo Canyon

Nuclear Power Plant that would kill or injure untold numbers of whales,

dolphins, salmon, rockfish and other species. Fortunately, the

California Coastal Commission, under pressure from a big coalition of

fishermen, tribal members and environmentalists, voted unanimously on

November 14 to reject the company’s plan.

The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California voted on

December 11 to include raising of Shasta Dam as one of its "legislative

priorities," a move opposed by the Winnemen Wintu Tribe, fishermen and

environmentalists because of the dire threat dam expansion poses to the

Tribe's cultural sites and Central Valley salmon populations. The board

voted to support "administrative/legislative actions to remove existing

prohibition for state funding to raise Shasta Dam."

"An 18.5 foot dam raise would damage or flood about 40 of our sacred

sites, and permanently submerge our Coming of Age ceremony site," said

Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe. For

supporting the Shasta Dam raise, MWD easily wins the "Cultural

Genocide" award of the year.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration is continuing and expanding some

of the worst environmental policies of the Bush administration,

including exporting record amounts of water out of the Delta, killing

record numbers of fish at the Delta pumping facilities in 2011 and

promoting the privatization of the fisheries through the "catch shares"

program.

However, the administration exceeded its already horrendous record

when on December 21, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a

draft environmental assessment (EA) finding, in spite of much evidence

to the contrary, that genetically engineered (GE) AquaAdvantage salmon

pose no risk to the environment. For tentatively approving this

questionable genetically engineered animal, President Barack Obama and

the Food and Drug Administration earned the coveted “Frankensalmon”

award for 2012.

While federal officials, corporate agribusiness interests, sleazy

politicians and others have done an “admirable” job in their war against

fish and fishermen, there are two detested public figures that stand

out above all of the rest – Governor Jerry Brown and Natural Resources

Secretary John Laird. Just like Obama has continued and expanded the

abysmal fish and water policies of GW Bush, Brown and Laird have

continued and expanded the abysmal policies of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

First, Brown and Laird have fast-tracked the Bay Delta Conservation

Plan to build the peripheral tunnels. This plan will hasten the

extinction of Central Valley Chinook salmon, Delta smelt, longfin smelt

and other fish species, according to agency and independent scientists

alike.

Second, Brown and Laird continued the Marine Life Protection Act

Initiative started by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2004. Shamefully, the

DFG and Resources Agency have issued press release after press release

failing to mention the conflicts of interest, failure to comprehensively

protect the ocean, shadowy private funding and incomplete and

terminally flawed science that have made the MLPA Initiative into one of

the most sickening examples of corporate greenwashing in California

history.

Third, Brown and Laird and Brown presided over record water exports

to corporate agribusiness and Southern California in 2011, resulting in

the "salvage" of a record 9 million Sacramento splittail and over 2

million other fish including Central Valley salmon, steelhead, striped

bass, largemouth bass, threadfin shad, white catfish and sturgeon.