California Rice Fields produce record food for salmon, say scientists say

Sacramento, California-in This winter, a record amount of food for endangered fish was produced on California rice fields, say scientists.

The nutrient -rich water loaded with insects is led into the Sacramento River, according to the meadows, to fuel the journey of the youthful salmon.

The coalition said 25,000 hectares of Riceland produce £ 147,500 urgently needed food for endangered fish such as chinook salmon.

The rice fields are flooded late in autumn and winter to destroy the remaining rice straw after harvesting. The Conservation Group California Trout reports that these fields are teeming with food for tiny young people.

Jacob Katz, senior scientist of California, said that “magic happens” in the muddy water.

“And in this magic, the rice plug and other vegetation of microbes are broken down by bacteria, and this energy is available for beetles, and these insects grow really quickly,” said Katz.

Katz compared the water publications to “bring the batteries back into the ecosystem of the river”, so that the Sacramento River Valley could once again create salmon.

According to Cal Rice, 25,000 hectares of Riceland were flooded this winter. It hopes to flood a day of 500,000 acres, “to use fish, birds and wild animals that depend on the habitat on the natural meadows”, according to the coalition of the floodplains in front of the floodplain.

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