By Laurel Neme, Mongabay Key points: California’s green sturgeon and white sturgeon face numerous threats from dams, harmful algal blooms...
The Center for Biological Diversity, a group petitioning for the protections, lambasted the Trump administration for the decision. By Alan...
New monitoring shows the Palos Verdes Reef restoration project has increased fish biomass by over 150 percent just 4 years after construction From NOAA Fisheries: If you’ve stood on the bluffs of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and gazed out at...
Endangered Species Act protections move salmon toward recovery. From NOAA Fisheries Most Pacific Coast salmon and steelhead listed under the...
Research detects water temperatures that may affect salmon survival. By NOAA Fisheries Many thousands of fall-run Chinook salmon migrated beneath...
By Bobby Bascomb, Mongabay A recent study from the U.S. state of California finds that the public reported more encounters with wildlife in times of drought. Researchers say they expect such drought-driven human-wildlife interactions in other areas also facing water...
Across all of California, perhaps no other fish has as great of a cultural, economic, and ecological impact as that...
Press release from the Department of Fish and Wildlife: A little more than a year after the historic removal of...
Coho love the newly ‘messy’ streams. by Tanvi Dutta Gupta, High Country News This story was produced with support from Bay Nature, a nonprofit news organization that connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area more deeply with the natural...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water It could cost $27 million, or more, to revamp and reopen the Kernville hatchery as a...
A decades-long collaboration is giving Central California’s dwindling coho salmon population a fighting chance. By Annie Roth, UC Santa Cruz...
New dynamic report updates 2011 version, presents recommended conservation actions, success stories The San Francisco Bay Joint Venture and Point Blue Conservation Science have launched a new website called San Francisco Bay State of the Birds. This website presents bird...
From the Department of Fish and Wildlife: The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and its partners have initiated...
by Robin Meadows California’s freshwater species are threatened by habitat loss and degradation, and are pushed to the brink of...
The Lower Russian River Salmon Habitat Restoration Priorities Action Plan identifies priority restoration actions to recover Central California Coast coho salmon and steelhead in the Lower Russian River watershed. By NOAA Fisheries NOAA Fisheries and the California Department of Fish...