"The good news was that the returning chinook run was so large on the Klamath that the escapement goals were exceeded despite the kill; the bad news is that the federal government, by way of the Bureau of Reclamation, is managing the river for a succession of fish kills on the Klamath by continuing with the same "Plan" that was proven, without a shadow of a doubt, to have been caused by low water flows as a result of water diversions upriver in the Klamath Basin and the Trinity reservoir systems."

Jim Martin, RFA Norcal, March 2003


Then in August 2003,

"The federal government said late last week it will send an additional 33,000 acre-feet of water down the Trinity River this summer to avoid a repeat of last year's massive Klamath River fish kill."