Author(s): G. Q. Tabios; H. W. Shen; D. H. Zhao
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Abstract: The survival of fisheries and other living resources in the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (see Fig. 1) heavily depends on the salinity regime in the Bay/Delta. Salinity is a result of the interplay of freshwater inflow into the Bay/Delta from the major reservoirs of northern California, diversions and agricultural drainage in the Delta, and the tidal regime of the Pacific Ocean. For this reason, salinity is used as the estuarine standard to manage the freshwater inflow into the Bay/Delta to protect and if possible to restore key living resources and important estuarine values and functions (Shubel, 1991).
Year: 1995