by Alastair Bland, Estuary News Group The days when salmon and steelhead teemed in California’s coastal watersheds faded away last...
Dr. Peter Moyle is a distinguished professor emeritus and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. ...
State and federal agencies join to save native salmon from drought, climate change State and federal biologists have begun moving endangered adult winter-run Chinook salmon to the upper reaches of Battle Creek and threatened spring-run Chinook salmon to Clear Creek...
By Mike Wade, California Farm Water Coalition Farms require water to grow the healthy local food supply we depend on....
At the January meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen began a series of reports...
Restoration can help diversify salmon habitat and may stabilize fishing opportunities against climate shocks. From NOAA Fisheries: California’s native salmon have been harmed by more than a century of mining, dam building, floodplain reclamation, fishing pressure, hatchery practices, and introduced...
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...
Successful management of California’s freshwater resources requires balancing consumptive and non-consumptive water use with fish species that depend critically on the same resources. Numerous water management decisions are being evaluated currently, many with the goal of protecting endangered species such...
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...
As the drought dries up California’s wetlands, traveling birds such as ducks, geese and eagles are struggling to survive and breed. “This drought is bad. The odds are against us,” a state expert said. By Julie Cart, Cal Matters It...
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...
At the September meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen spotlighted an article on salmon predation, highlighted two new fact sheets on salmonids now available, and gave an update on the activities of the Delta...