More litigation regarding efforts to restore the dwindling fish population at a couple of Yuba County dams. Friends of the River, which filed a lawsuit, about a year ago, is now seeking a summary judgement from a federal judge in Sacramento. Executive Director Eric Wesselman says they disagree with the Army Corps, which has maintained that it has not legal duty to provide fish passage at Englebright and Daguerre Point Dams…

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The suit also names the National Marines Fisheries Service and the Bureau of Land Managment, which supports the Army Corps’ stance. It says the dams block fish from most of their upstream spawning habitat. Wessleman says a variety of actions could be made, including tearing down the dams…

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Wessleman says other less drastic actions include removing predatory fish at Daguerre Point Dam, adding large woody material and spawning gravel below Englebright Dam, and restoring habitat by removing rock debris left over from construction of Englebright.