NOAA Fisheries

August 7, 2026

Researchers tracked salmon before, during, and after restoration to understand how restored channel and floodplain habitat influences growth, survival, and...

INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: As commercial salmon fishing resumes in California, the industry faces a murky outlook

Inside Climate News

July 21, 2026

State restoration efforts and federal disaster funding are helping the fish and the people who depend on it, but ongoing...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: West Coast Chinook salmon denied federal protections

Courthouse News Service

December 9, 2025

The Center for Biological Diversity, a group petitioning for the protections, lambasted the Trump administration for the decision. By Alan...

NOAA FISHERIES: Anglers catch salmon for science as tracking reveals risks facing adult fall-run chinook

December 2, 2025

Research detects water temperatures that may affect salmon survival. By NOAA Fisheries Many thousands of fall-run Chinook salmon migrated beneath...

UC SANTA CRUZ: A lifeline for salmon: UCSC and NOAA join forces to secure a future for California’s most iconic fish

UC Santa Cruz

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

October 30, 2025

A decades-long collaboration is giving Central California’s dwindling coho salmon population a fighting chance. By Annie Roth, UC Santa Cruz...

High-flow releases from Coyote Valley Dam at Lake Mendocino on January 16, 2023.

SCRIPPS: New forecast-informed decision-making tool implemented at Coyote Valley Dam and Lake Mendocino

Water project operations

October 23, 2025

Officials commemorate revised water control manual for Lake Mendocino in Oct. 22 ceremony By Lauren Fimbres Wood, Scripps Institution of...

NOAA FISHERIES: Salmon habitat restoration priorities in the Lower Russian River

September 29, 2025

The Lower Russian River Salmon Habitat Restoration Priorities Action Plan identifies priority restoration actions to recover Central California Coast coho...

NOAA FISHERIES: El Niño yields to upwelling in the California current, renewing productivity of West Coast ecosystem

March 10, 2025

Outlook for salmon improves after low returns closed California fisheries. By NOAA Fisheries According to the NOAA California Current Integrated...

NOAA FISHERIES: Endangered salmon move into newly restored habitat on the Mendocino Coast

March 10, 2025

NOAA partners The Nature Conservancy and Trout Unlimited report that endangered Central California Coast coho salmon are using NOAA-funded restoration...

NOAA FISHERIES: Four Pacific salmon and steelhead retain threatened status in reviews of recovery progress

Fish and wildlife Policy and regulation

December 12, 2024

By NOAA Fisheries NOAA Fisheries has completed 5-year reviews of the recovery progress and prospects of four salmon and steelhead...

NOW AVAILABLE: NOAA Fisheries Final Biological Opinion for the Long Term Operations of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project

Maven

Reports Water project operations

December 11, 2024

NOAA Fisheries issues no jeopardy/no adverse modification biological opinion The biological opinion by NOAA Fisheries for the long-term operations of...

NOAA FISHERIES: World’s biggest dam removal project to open 420 miles of salmon habitat this fall

July 23, 2024

With the dams on the lower Klamath scheduled for complete removal by September, salmon will reenter 420 miles of habitat...

NOAA FISHERIES: Northern California steelhead maintain threatened status