The proposed habitat is over 90,000 acres and includes portions of Contra Costa, Napa, Sacramento, Solano and Sonoma counties. By...
Press release from the Center for Biological Diversity: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to designate 91,630 acres of critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the critically imperiled San Francisco Bay population of longfin smelt. The...
Conservation groups are working with Central Valley farmers to restore critical habitat for wetland birds struggling to subsist on a...
California hatcheries lend a helping hand to Battle Creek fall run Chinook salmon. By the US FWS For hundreds of...
By NOAA Fisheries NOAA Fisheries has completed 5-year reviews of the recovery progress and prospects of four salmon and steelhead species in Northern California and Southern Oregon. We found that all four should remain threatened under the Endangered Species Act....
From the Bureau of Reclamation: The fish along this stretch of the Stanislaus River practically jump on the line, and...
By NOAA Fisheries The San Joaquin River Restoration Program (SJRRP) is a long-term collaborative program to restore flows in the...
By Alastair Bland Federal wildlife officials formally listed the San Francisco Estuary longfin smelt as an endangered species in July. Whether the action is a first step toward recovery or just an administrative milestone on the path to extinction is...
“What data we have suggests that the predation is a huge factor that will probably preclude any recovery of salmonids...
With rising temperatures and a greater demand on water resources, NOAA Fisheries has identified reintroduction, or the intentional movement and...
CDFW releases 270,000 fall-run Chinook salmon into Fall Creek, the first yearling hatchery salmon release following historic dam removal The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has seen the first returns of threatened coho salmon to the upper Klamath...
By Sarah Whichello, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Research Participant with EPA. Estuaries are waterbodies where freshwater from the uplands mixes...
A balanced approach is key to benefiting California’s endangered fish species through habitat restoration, improved flow measures, monitoring, and hatchery...
Low counts of spawning salmon could mean another year without fishing. Experts say the outlook still has time to turn around. By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters Farmers can estimate the size of a harvest months in advance by counting the...