… (I)f (Rep. Josh Harder) wants to enlist the public’s help to turn the tide against invasive species with the potential to destroy the Delta, he might want to consider adding invasive bass to his list. The Pacific Marine Fisheries manages the Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Program that has been in place on the Snake and Columbia rivers since 1991 in Oregon and Washington. … The program in Oregon and Washington gives credence to the potential effectiveness of a plan batted down in Sacramento 12 years ago to save the threatened salmon and steelhead. The plan was an aggressive cutback on the non-native bass that are huge consumers of the native salmon and steelhead as well as the almost extinct Delta smelt.
–Written by Manteca Bulletin editor Dennis Wyatt.