By the Department of Fish & Wildlife: Under cover of darkness and with a series of cold, late-winter storms building, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) staff gingerly released approximately 1.1 million fall-run Chinook salmon fry (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) into the...
Study suggests changes in hatchery practices could help increase population stability for Sacramento River fall-run Chinook salmon, the backbone of California’s salmon fishery By Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz By returning to spawn in the Sacramento River at different ages,...
Collaborative efforts reopen six additional miles of habitat to migrating and resident fish. By NOAA Fisheries California salmon are now traversing a rocky stretch of river northeast of Sacramento for the first time in a century. Until a few months...
At the November meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen spotlighted research funded by the Council that examined whether water quality is a factor in juvenile salmon mortality with a somewhat surprising result. She also updated...
How habitats used by chinook salmon and Sacramento splittail would be impacted by climate change, harmful algal blooms in San Francisco Bay and the Delta, and upcoming workshops on Harmful Algal Blooms and Interdisciplinary science and more in this month’s...
