California has just experienced its third reasonably wet winter in as many years. How unusual is this? And how might three such winters in a row affect salmon? We interviewed Jeffrey Mount, senior fellow with the PPIC Water Policy Center, and Carson Jeffres,  senior researcher and lab director at UC Davis’s Center for Watershed Sciences, to find out.

Other fishery news:

• The Daily Journal (San Mateo, Calif.): Upcoming salmon forecast looks grim in San Mateo County
• Santa Ynez Valley News (Santa Maria, Calif.) Newest release brings trout total at Cachuma Lake this season to 16,000 pounds 
• SJV Water: Volunteers needed to raise and release trout into the Kings River