{"id":36356,"date":"2013-05-31T07:19:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=36356"},"modified":"2013-05-31T07:19:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:19:13","slug":"82-of-californias-remaining-native-fish-will-likely-go-extinct-within-the-next-100-years-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/82-of-californias-remaining-native-fish-will-likely-go-extinct-within-the-next-100-years-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"82% Of California's Remaining Native Fish Will Likely Go Extinct Within The Next 100 Years, Research Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

82% of California’s remaining native freshwater fish species will likely go extinct within the next 100 years as a result of climate change and habitat loss, new research has found. This includes California’s remains salmon species, which will likely lose their habitats to invasive non-native fish, according to researchers from the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis.<\/p>\n

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The new research was done by assessing how vulnerable California’s freshwater fish species are to climate change, and creating an estimate of the likelihood that each species would face extinction in the next 100 years<\/a>. What the researchers found, was that, out of “121 native fish species, 82% are likely to be driven to extinction or very low numbers as climate change speeds the decline of already depleted populations. In contrast, only 19% of the 50 non-native fish species in the state face a similar risk of extinction.”<\/p>\n

Over the past 200 years California has lost a great number of its native fish species, and seen many populations of surviving species nearly completely collapse, as has happened with many of the previously ubiquitous salmon species.<\/p>\n