To prevent this catastrophe, the California government has placed fish advisories in numerous places such as the San Francisco Bay, Alamden Reservoir, and Guadeloupe Creek, to name a few. No matter what laws and regulations are passed, it is too late to fully repair the rivers of northern California because of the avarice of the 49ers. .
Intense racism resulted from the California gold rush. Miners directed their frustration and bad luck in the form of discrimination towards the foreigners. The news of gold had attracted people of Chilean, Mexican, Colombian, Hawaiian, French, German, Irish, Turk, and Chinese backgrounds. The once plentiful gold reserves declined rapidly, inciting anger in the American miners who had already faced much hardship. They resented the numerous Chinese laborers they felt were stealing "their" gold. In 1852, 25,000 Chinese pulled into "Gold Mountain," their designation for California. These people were taking a big risk in an alien land, but figured that gold mining was an improvement from the drought, flooding, and civil war back in Canton. Companies employed Chinese workers for cheap labor as the Chinese paid the debt of their passage. They were recruited to lay out railroads, build irrigation systems, and fish. White miners grudged tight employment, and drove off Chinese from Tuolumne, Yuba City, and other locations. The Chinese looked distinctly different, spoke in an unusual tongue, and had different customs. Accordingly, many people fear or scorn what they do not understand. Miners regularly ran off Chinese from their digging claims at gunpoint. If an ox or shovel was missing, an unfortunate neighboring immigrant was accused and punished. Punishment was commonly around thirty lashings. Depending on how angry the crowds felt, a hanging ensued. Notwithstanding , the miners had no problem stealing gold from the emigrants. The Chinese preserved their gold from bandits by melting their gold into woks, pans, and utensils.
