Trinity River fishing guide Travis Michel attended a workshop in Weaverville on Thursday night on a proposal to develop a long-term plan in order to protect the health of fish living in the Klamath River.

Bureau in its proposal said majorly the work will be done through managing the amount of water flowing down the Trinity River and into the Klamath. Michel during the workshop stated that he has attended the workshop to know what actually the proposal is about.

It has been said that the US Bureau of Reclamation has proposed for increasing the amount of water flowing from Lewiston Dam down the Trinity River. The proposal has come out of concern for salmon and steelhead in the lower Klamath that are dying of deadly bacteria called ich.

As per experts, ich grows where fish are crowded in warm, slow-moving water. Previously in 2002 some 33,000 Chinook salmon died under those conditions.

Now as the drought has left the Klamath with similar low and warm conditions over the past three years, the bureau has ramped up releases from Lewiston Dam to flush out the river with cooler water to prevent a widespread ich outbreak.

But every year the bureau will also have to prepare environmental reports to justify the higher flows in the face of legal challenges from the Westlands Water District and the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, two agricultural irrigation agencies in the San Joaquin Valley.

About 15 people showed up to listen to a presentation from Paul Zedonis, a project manager with the bureau, and visit information stations set up at the Trinity County Library in Weaverville.