my name is scott ardis, executive director of golden state salmon association. thank you for your time today. and appreciate this opportunity. low flows on the tuolumne river are directly contributing to the decline of salmon populations, creating toxic algal blooms, disrupting a once functional river, and hurting the san francisco bay delta ecosystem. excessive water storage, skyrocketing water rates, and low river flows are not the answer, and i'd like to read a message from a golden state salmon association member, something that gets away from things that i often talk about, which is the loss of jobs, the economy, family impacts and things that, you know, just putting food on the table and those impacts that are happening right here in the city to commercial and recreational fishermen and businesses. and this particular message from tom, there is also an emotional price to pay for the destruction of our salmon runs. no sport fishing of salmon, which for me personally was pretty high. i love catching salmon. my wife, who died of cancer recently, loved catchin