mr. barry nelson. >> thank you, chairman kwon and members of the commission. barry nelson representing the golden gate salmon association. just as a very brief opening comment, i'm glad that you and the staff are -- are really focusing on this issue. it's -- it's impossible to overstate how important this issue is from a whole list of perspectives, we're on the wave -- on the precipice of extinction. and i want to thank commissioner moran for his comment about trying to focus on places where we can find common ground and ways to move forward, and the letter that -- that mr. ritchie referred to, if i can give this to your staff, you may have seen this already, but this is the letter that mr. ritchie refer today that came in last -- referred to that came in last night. focused on three issues where i really think we can focus on making progress. the first -- we haven't talked about this yet today. the first is the current federal administration has begun a quite aggressive attack on natural resources in california, on the use of credible science and the regulator

. >> barry nelson with western water strategies and golden gate salmon association. we're -- and i would also like to support and thank mr. peskin for introducing his resolution. we're not here today solely to talk about the tuolomne river. the tuolomne river is part of the larger bay delta estuary. there are 23,000 salmon fishing jobs in california, and frankly, those won't survive. the salmon fishing men on fisherman's wharf, the fishing boats, they won't survive. it is the most important salmon fishing. this is local jobs, local, healthy, sustainably produced foods right here in your community. we're here today because amazingly, despite the fact that our salmon are collapsing, the sfpuc has been aggressively fighting protections for salmon and protections for san francisco bay, and it's recently come to light as you've heard, that the p.u.c. has been working with the trump administration to undermine protections for salmon fishing that -- for salmon. that just strikes us as remarkable. the science on this issue is resolved. greenhouse gases contributed by the change, smoking causes cancer, we need more flows passing