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Environmental Issues in California Loss of California Native Fish Factors affecting the fish:  Salt and Fresh-water fish native to California are making a decline into becoming extinct.  The California Drought has had effects on our waters because of the long hot days of over 100 degree weather has raised temperatures from 50 degrees to over 60 degrees; making it impossible for Salmon eggs to survive.  In a 2014 study of the waters, only 5% of the eggs survived the temperatures; 82% are likely to become extinct. SOS Fish in Hot Water is a video that explores the climate change changing the temperatures of salt and fresh-water fish in California. The Loss of Native Fish Top 20 native California fish most likely to become extinct within 50-100 years: ·  Klamath Mountains Province summer steelhead ·  McCloud River redband trout ·  Unarmored threespine stickleback* ·  Shay Creek stickleback ·  Delta smelt* ·  Long Valley speckled ...