For the second year in a row, there will be no commercial or recreational salmon fishing in California. And for the second year in a row, the governor’s office has requested federal disaster relief to support impacted fishing communities.

“That’s just money,” said salmon boat captain Sarah Bates at a public address in San Francisco on Thursday by the Golden State Salmon Association advocacy group. “What we really want is to fix the larger problem. What we’re asking for is actually something much, much greater.”

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.