On a rainy day during the last storm to hit California, storm drain water was running into a ditch at the end of Fourteen mile Slough along Swain Rd. and right next to the Village Oaks Elementary School in the city of Stockton when at least 50 salmon ranging in weight from 10 to 20 pounds were trying to jump inside the pump to get upriver. They became trapped in 14 Mile Slough, probably at high tide and with the water flowing out of the ditch this was the only water flowing that they could migrate to. Eventually they tried to spawn there and died due to the lack of water. They were found on a mud bed along with thousands of salmon eggs lying beside the carcasses.