Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
It's the latest sign of how bad this year's drought really is. Federal and state wildlife agencies launched a massive "fish lift" this week.
That's the term for driving young chinook salmon by the tanker from a hatchery at the northern end of the Central Valley, all the way to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. As strange as it sounds, officials say this is the only way any of the commercially valuable fish will make it to the ocean this year.