[courtesy of California Progress Report]

Photo: Salmon from the DFG's fish hatcheries are placed in Fishery Foundation acclimation pens in Carquinez Strait at the entrance to San Pablo Bay. The pens help salmon to better acclimate to life in salt water and to evade predators.

By Dan Bacher

The California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) has completed placing 20.2 million young chinook salmon from Central Valley rivers in acclimation pens for release into San Pablo Bay.

"The number released is the most ever by any state agency on the West Coast for a single stock of salmon in one year," according to a DFG press release on June 19. "The young salmon were released this spring into San Pablo Bay and are expected to return to the Sacramento River system in two to four years."

On June 17, the last tanker load of 250,000 tiny fall run Central Valley chinook salmon - called "smolts" - was released into the acclimation pens of the Fishery Foundation of California in San Pablo Bay and towed out into the bay and released in the out-going tide.

by Be_Devine [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

In an admittedly unscientific online poll at the Marin Independent Journal's website, Mark Leno is leading Joe Nation by a wide margin.  Leno has 66.7 percent of the vote to Nation's 27.5 percent.  

In the "is she really still here?" category, Carole Migden registers a whopping 5.8 percent.  

Cast your vote and see the latest numbers here.

I am fairly certain that it was the money we raised for Leno during last week's Calitics Challenge that gave him the "Calitics Bump."  Keep contributing  to his campaign here.