CDFW adjusts salmon releases to support Sacramento River populations Department of Fish and Wildlife Ecosystems May 6, 2025From the Department of Fish and Wildlife In a significant shift of California’s salmon strategy, the California Department of Fish...
CDFW to End Hatchery Operations at Mad River Fish Hatchery in Humboldt County Department of Fish and Wildlife Ecosystems May 3, 2025From the Department of Fish and Wildlife The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has made the difficult decision...
CDFW partners with DWR and fishing industry to diversify salmon hatchery release strategies Department of Fish and Wildlife Ecosystems February 7, 2025From the Department of Water Resources: In a collaborative effort to increase the sustainability of California’s salmon populations, the California...
CDFW Releases 1 Million Chinook Salmon into San Pablo Bay from Cal Maritime Campus Department of Fish and Wildlife Ecosystems June 15, 2024From the Department of Fish and Wildlife: As the sun set over the San Pablo Bay June 10, the California...
CDFW releases more than 2 million chinook salmon into Klamath River Department of Fish and Wildlife Ecosystems May 25, 2024From the Department of Fish and Wildlife: The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) this week successfully completed the...
CDFW NEWS: 500,000 Juvenile Salmon released into Klamath River Department of Fish and Wildlife Ecosystems April 19, 2024Press release from the Department of Fish and Wildlife The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) this week successfully...
CDFW: Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Fry Succumb to Gas Bubble Disease in Klamath River Department of Fish and Wildlife Ecosystems March 2, 2024From the Department of Fish and Wildlife: The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced today that fall-run Chinook...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Ramping up releases of hatchery Delta smelt to the wild Robin Meadows Delta scienceEcosystemsNotebook News and Features January 29, 2024By Robin Meadows It’s a lovely December morning in Rio Vista, a town of 10,000 in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta....
SFEWS: Keeping water in headwaters longer; Fishery impacts of hatchery-origin vs. natural-origin chinook salmon, Diets of fish in the Stanislaus River, and more … Guest Contributor Climate changeDelta scienceScience December 28, 2023San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science (SFEWS) provides credible scientific information on California’s complex water issues, linking new science to...
HIGH COUNTRY NEWS: California’s Central Valley chinook are getting lost on their way home High Country News Ecosystems November 1, 2023The culprit is a tactic designed to save them – one that could decrease the species’ resilience in the long...
DWR NEWS: DWR Gets Hands-on with Thiamine Deficiency in Spring-run Salmon Department of Water Resources (DWR) Delta scienceEcosystemsScience July 7, 2023From the Department of Water Resources: California’s Central Valley is home to four runs of Chinook salmon: spring, fall, late-fall,...
UC SANTA CRUZ: Shrinking age distribution of spawning salmon raises climate resilience concerns UC Santa Cruz EcosystemsScience February 27, 2023Study suggests changes in hatchery practices could help increase population stability for Sacramento River fall-run Chinook salmon, the backbone of...
SJV WATER: Utility stops flows to closed hatchery but keeps some North Fork Kern water for itself SJV Water Policy and regulation July 29, 2022By Lois Henry, SJV Water Southern California Edison has stopped taking water out of the North Fork of the Kern...
DWR NEWS: DWR and CDFW Release Fish Into the Wild Department of Water Resources (DWR) Ecosystems June 28, 2022From DWR News Oroville’s Feather River Fish Hatchery (FRFH) released over 11.3 million young Chinook salmon smolts into the waters...
Increased Hatchery Production Aims to Boost Chinook Salmon for Endangered Killer Whales NOAA Fisheries EcosystemsScience October 4, 2021State, tribal, and federal hatcheries seek to increase Chinook by 4–5 percent From NOAA Fisheries: Federal, state, and tribal salmon...