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In California, drought and mismanagement of remaining scarce water supplies is killing a key part of the ocean—the salmon that commercial and recreational fishermen rely on. Meanwhile, in the San Joaquin Valley, inland from the coast, nut orchards that depend on imported water from salmon streams in the northern part of the state go on for miles.
At least some from the San Joaquin Valley, like Newsweek op-ed contributor Victor David Hanson (June 24, California Is Running on Empty), don't seem to know or care much about salmon, or the coastal and inland communities that depend on them. Salmon fishermen in the Golden Gate Salmon Association were taken aback reading Hanson decry water set aside for fish and fishing communities. Hanson’s view seems narrowly tailored to represent the interests of a small handful of agriculture operatives.