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.