The Pacific Salmon, who depend on the mingled salt and fresh water of the San Francisco estuary as a nursery for young salmon, and who must swim upstream in fresh water like the Klamath river, are being killed because fresh water is being diverted from the rivers that they spawn in, and that feed into the estuaries, is being diverted to large commercial farms. There's a moratorium on salmon fishing in the bay, and has been for two years, putting many commercial fisherman and canneries out of business, but the salmon, meanwhile are still dying. The pacific salmon is in serious jeopardy—even in danger of extinction, as the absence of fresh cold water entering the estuary makes the water too warm for what few baby salmon hatch to thrive.

California billionaire Stewart Resnick, owner of Parmount Farms (largest growers of citrus, almonds and pistachios in the U.S), also owns Teleflora. Resnick has successfully gotten California Senator Dian Feinstein to intervene on his personal behalf to question the science behind NOAA's determination that pacific salmon are in jeopardy, and therefore, to spend millions of Federal tax monies on a third scientific report.

This video explains the problem, and points to wealthy agri business interfering with science and recommendations by federal scientists an agencies, in order to line their own pockets as they grow crops with diverted water, crops they then export.