Decades of planning to bolster Kern River rainbow numbers results in little action – SJV Water

Decades of planning to bolster Kern River rainbow numbers results in little action – SJV Water

Plans to keep dwindling Kern River rainbow trout populations from dipping into endangered species territory are detailed and exacting.  They are also more than a decade, if not decades, old and, for the most part, inert. When the first “Upper Kern Basin Fishery Management” plan was written  in 1995, its goal was to avoid the Kern River rainbow having to be listed as threatened or endangered after it became a candidate for listing under the U.S. …