Restoration can help diversify salmon habitat and may stabilize fishing opportunities against climate shocks. From NOAA Fisheries: California’s native salmon...
At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, the agenda included an informational briefing on the Yolo Bypass Salmonid...
Dr. Flora Cordoleani is a project scientist with UC Santa Cruz and NOAA fisheries, where she conducts research to understand...
Successful management of California’s freshwater resources requires balancing consumptive and non-consumptive water use with fish species that depend critically on...
New ways to boost fish nutrition and identify species, a new bird atlas raises red flags, preparing for a snowless...
In California’s Central Valley, studies have found that increased streamflow can improve the survival of imperiled juvenile salmon populations during...
Researchers find that maintaining genetic variation is critical to allowing wild populations to survive, reproduce, and adapt to future environmental...
Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was primarily a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would...
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...
At the September meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen spotlighted an article on salmon...
State, tribal, and federal hatcheries seek to increase Chinook by 4–5 percent From NOAA Fisheries: Federal, state, and tribal salmon...
By Danny Merkley, California Farm Bureau Federation As a fourth-generation Sacramento Valley farmer and the California Farm Bureau’s director of...
Chinook salmon have long thrived in California’s variable climate, including prolonged drought periods, by utilizing the historical Delta’s vast habitat...
