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cool project merges farming and fisheries

Posted: March 20 2013

Flooded rice field is tested as salmon nursery in Yolo Bypass
By Matt Weiser
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Decades of experience have proved that Sacramento Valley rice farmers can use their fields to grow healthy ducks. Now, research under way in the Yolo Bypass aims to find out if they can grow salmon, too.
On Tuesday, researchers from UC Davis, the California Department of Water Resources and a nonprofit fisheries group released 50,000 juvenile salmon into a 20-acre rice field north of Woodland.

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