From the California Department of Fish and Wildlife: Steelhead are among California’s most remarkable fish. Born in freshwater streams, these ocean-going rainbow trout can migrate hundreds of miles to the Pacific Ocean before returning to the very streams where they...
The San Francisco Bay estuary’s White Sturgeon meet all the criteria for threatened status, but feds say that officially listing is “precluded” From the San Francisco Baykeeper: After a twenty-month delay, and in response to a court order, the U.S....
by Robin Meadows The San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary has been a food desert for fish for two decades and the introduced overbite clam is a major culprit. The fish eat tiny creatures called zooplankton, which in turn eat tiny plant-like...
Governor Newsom announced major progress towards protecting salmon populations and their habitats. Since launching California’s first strategy to protect salmon amidst hotter and drier weather in 2024, salmon populations are rebounding and allowing California’s commercial and recreational salmon fisheries to...
An appeals panel affirmed a lower court’s finding that the federal government must comply with the Endangered Species Act when operating the Klamath Irrigation Project. By Margaret Attridge, Courthouse News Service The Ninth Circuit delivered a victory to the Yurok...
