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California Salmon Deaths Linked to Thiamine Deficiency

January 26, 2021

Something was killing baby salmon. Scientists traced it to a food-web mystery

The biologists working in a fish hatchery near Shasta Dam grew increasingly concerned last year when newly hatched salmon fry began to act strangely — swimming around and around, in tight, corkscrewing motions, before spiraling to their deaths at the bottom of the tanks.

Read article at the LA Times