By DWR News In California’s Central Valley, spring-run Chinook salmon are a threatened species. To support recovery efforts of spring-run...
San Francisco Bay Catastrophes Are Due to Super Moons and Water Policy, Says Fisheries Expert Press release from the California Water Impact Network Sturgeon are dying again in San Francisco Bay, a result of oxygen depletion and toxic “red tide”...
With salmon migration blocked by Shasta Dam, a Tribe and agency scientists collaborate to bring them home. By Juliet Grable,...
By Robin Meadows Two years ago, California’s winter-run chinook were dealt a devastating blow. These endangered salmon were already struggling...
The Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a plan that will give it more flexibility in helping species recover when their historic range is no longer suitable for survival. By Edvard Pettersson, Courthouse News Service The U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
By Luke Reid, Chico State Today Arthur Garcia, Cultural Resource Manager and Tribal Elder of the Wintu Tribe of Northern...
When Steve Neader’s rice farm flooded last winter after three years of drought, a UC Davis research team checked to...
By DWR News Delta smelt are a fish that have gone from vast abundance to the brink of extinction. After seeing some positive results with releasing hatchery-raised Delta smelt into the wild in 2022, the Department of Water Resources (DWR)...
Dozens of adult sturgeon and hundreds of other large fish including threatened Chinook salmon have moved safely from receding floodwaters...
Written by Robin Meadows Sturgeon have been around far longer than humans—a jaw-dropping 200 million years to our comparatively short...
At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen spotlighted a study funded by the Delta Stewardship Council, State Water Contractors, and the Department of Water Resources that leveraged decades of monitoring data to...
By Susan Sawyer, US Fish and Wildlife Service Stretching from the volcanic Cascades of Southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean...
Upgraded facilities and protections promote the return of Chinook to North Yuba River By CA Department of Fish and Wildlife...
Three-way collaboration to restore Chinook salmon to the mountains north of Redding, California. By NOAA Fisheries The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, NOAA Fisheries and the Winnemem Wintu Tribe have signed agreements to restore Chinook salmon to the mountains...