In the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, new wetlands await the threatened fish. by Mark Schapiro, High Country News This story was produced in collaboration with Bay Nature, a nonprofit news organization that connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area more deeply...
Governor Newsom announced major progress towards protecting salmon populations and their habitats. Since launching California’s first strategy to protect salmon...
Press release from the Golden State Salmon Association: On June 10, the State Water Resources Control Board rejected the Trump Administration’s Bureau of Reclamation plan to manage Shasta Dam to protect spawning salmon on the Sacramento River this fall. The...
The United Water Conservation District has challenged California’s steelhead protections for years. By Hillel Aron, Courthouse News Service A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has rejected a water agency’s challenge to endangered species protections for the Southern California steelhead...
By Eric Palkovacs, University of California, Santa Cruz and Steven T. Lindley, University of California, Santa Cruz Along the California coast, from Bodega Bay to Morro Bay, commercial fishing boats have started pulling in salmon for the first time in...
From the Department of Water Resources: Tucked within the UC Davis campus, a quiet but critically important effort is helping preserve the Longfin Smelt, a vulnerable fish species native to the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. Scientists with DWR and UC Davis...