Spring rains often cause a rapid rise and fall of the water level in the Klamath River leaving many temporary ponds in the gravel bars along its banks. Each year when the young chinook salmon are migrating down river to the ocean they risk the peril of being trapped in the rapidly evaporating ponds.
Rescue efforts to save trapped fish include the taking of small salmon from the ponds with a large "small mesh" seining net and releasing these fish back into the main stem to continue their journey to the ocean. Salmon runs on the Klamath are currently in a depressed state and every effort must be made to enhance the natural stocks.
