The Sacramento Bee (April 4, 2013) -- The salmon swam out of the rice fields Wednesday, and they came out fatter than ever.

The experiment to raise juvenile salmon in flooded rice fields began in February when scientists put 50,000 pinky-sized fish into flooded test fields on 18 acres in the Yolo Bypass north of Woodland.

"For the second year, these fish have grown so fast that we're calling them our 'floodplain fatties,' " said Carson Jeffres, a researcher at UC Davis, which partnered in the experiment with California Trout and the California Department of Water Resources.

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