Restoration can help diversify salmon habitat and may stabilize fishing opportunities against climate shocks. From NOAA Fisheries: California’s native salmon...
By Edgar Sanchez, Ag Alert Sixth-generation rice grower Jeff Gallagher is perpetually surrounded by birds on the Sutter County farm...
Dr. Flora Cordoleani is a project scientist with UC Santa Cruz and NOAA fisheries, where she conducts research to understand better the dynamics of threatened populations of spring-run chinook salmon in the Central Valley’s highly modified environment, with the objective...
Successful management of California’s freshwater resources requires balancing consumptive and non-consumptive water use with fish species that depend critically on...
Experimental release paves the way for multiyear supplementation program By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation Federal and state agencies...
Researchers find that maintaining genetic variation is critical to allowing wild populations to survive, reproduce, and adapt to future environmental changes. From NOAA Fisheries: A new paper shows that genetic variation is crucial to a population’s short- and long-term viability....
As the drought dries up California’s wetlands, traveling birds such as ducks, geese and eagles are struggling to survive and...
NOAA Fisheries recovery goals include reintroduction to save the late-migrating fish In drought years and when marine heat waves warm...
Late migration of outgoing juvenile fish is a crucial life history strategy for survival of spring-run Chinook salmon during drought years By Michael Milstein (NOAA) In drought years and when marine heat waves warm the Pacific Ocean, late-migrating juvenile spring-run...
At the September meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen spotlighted an article on salmon...
State, tribal, and federal hatcheries seek to increase Chinook by 4–5 percent From NOAA Fisheries: Federal, state, and tribal salmon...
By Danny Merkley, California Farm Bureau Federation As a fourth-generation Sacramento Valley farmer and the California Farm Bureau’s director of water resources for nearly 14 years, I have learned that California’s farmers and ranchers are the real environmentalists. That title...
At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Campbell Ingram, Executive Officer of the Delta Conservancy, updated the council...
At the January meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen discussed the recent science publication,...
At least 700 sub-adult and adult winter-run Chinook salmon (winter Chinook) returned this year to Battle Creek. Although monitoring efforts were curtailed, 47 redds were also observed with juveniles now being captured in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s rotary...