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. He has studied the ecology and conservation of fishes in freshwater and estuarine habitats in California for over 50 years....
State and federal agencies join to save native salmon from drought, climate change State and federal biologists have begun moving...
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 that, over the next few months, will highlight the science that the Council funded through the Delta Science Fellows in...
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...