Delta Promise: Fishermen, Farmers, and the Future of California's Bay-Delta Estuary

3,293 views · Published 6 July 2011 · 7:24 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: NRDC · 2011 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Generations of family farmers worked their fields in the Delta, along rivers full of salmon. But over the past decade, corporate agribusiness diverted record levels of freshwater from the Delta, leading to the collapse of many fish populations. Now, farmers in the Delta and fishermen across California are banding together to protect the Delta, their jobs, and their ways of life.

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