Our ongoing Nigiri Project, a collaborative salmon-rearing experiment on Yolo Bypass rice fields, made for a drought-related cover story in today's San Francisco Chronicle. 

The Center associate director Peter Moyle said growing salmon on an agriculturally reclaimed floodplain like the bypass floodway could actually work better than on natural floodplains during a drought. 

"The amount of water it takes to raise salmon is not that much. In this case, we are just using drain water that would flow back into the river anyway. So we can actually create marsh habitat that wouldn't be there naturally during a drought."