Day 12: Wednesday, July 17. Today was an interesting day. We met with Alex Gonyaw again to talk about The Klamath Tribes aquatics program. This programs specializes in fish and tribes habitat. The main tribes being Modoc, Klamath and Yahouskin. The main thing that caught my attention was the fish going extinct. The C-waam ( lost river sucker) and Koptu (short nose sucker). This fish have between 10 to 15 years until they go completely extinct if we don’t do nothing about it. Some of the causes of extinction are drowning of marches and water quality. Most of the fish that are alive now are the same ones of each year. Most new spawn fish don’t survive the water quality or are kill by their competition. Then we went to Hagelstein County Park. In that park there’s a little lake not that big but the only lake where short nose sucker fish are able to live without dying. The problem is that it’s a public park and people can fish and swim in the lake, that’s not good for the almost
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