CDFW Testing ‘Parentage-Based Tagging’ of Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Department of Fish and Wildlife Delta scienceNews March 16, 2023 109By the Department of Fish & Wildlife: Under cover of darkness and with a series of cold, late-winter storms building,...
DFW NEWS: CDFW Using Winter Storms to Help Increase Survival of Hatchery Released Chinook Salmon Department of Fish and Wildlife Science March 15, 2023 13By CDFW News Anticipating good conditions for the survival of hatchery-produced Chinook salmon throughout the Sacramento River and tributaries, the...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Judge extends plan to manage flows to California delta and protect endangered fish Courthouse News Service News February 27, 2023 39A federal judge said the court’s solution is the only one available to protect threatened fish since no one can...
UC SANTA CRUZ: Shrinking age distribution of spawning salmon raises climate resilience concerns UC Santa Cruz Science February 27, 2023 3Study suggests changes in hatchery practices could help increase population stability for Sacramento River fall-run Chinook salmon, the backbone of...
CAL MATTERS: Saving salmon: Chinook return to California’s far north — with a lot of human help Cal Matters News December 19, 2022 1Urgently trying to help an endangered species devastated by drought, biologists hauled 40,000 eggs to the McCloud River this year,...
DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: The role of water quality in salmon predation Maven Delta scienceMeetings and EventsScience December 6, 2022 247At the November meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen spotlighted research funded by the Council...
METROPOLITAN IMPORTED WATER COMMITTEE: Delta Conveyance Project draft EIR, part 2; Collaborative salmonid recovery project Maven Meetings and Events November 17, 2022 193At the November meeting of Metropolitan’s Imported Water Committee, agenda items included the second of a two-part presentation on the...
CAL MATTERS COMMENTARY: How climate change altered a longstanding Central Valley water reform Cal Matters Commentary November 7, 2022 2Faced with a warming climate, lawmakers must update a 1992 federal law that established water and wildlife regulations for the...
USBR NEWS: Enhancing Salmon and Steelhead Habitat — One Truckload At a Time Bureau of Reclamation News News September 9, 2022 14Supported By Reclamation Funding, Crews Are Transforming a River Channel By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation Each weekday, big,...
ESTUARY PEARLS: Beavers, climate impacts, harmful algal blooms, juvenile salmon, phytoplankton production, and more … Estuary News Group Delta scienceScience September 2, 2022 79California will spend big bucks on beavers to try to boost their numbers and reap some of the benefits—including slowing...
NOAA FISHERIES: Roadway Runoff Known to Kill Coho Salmon also Affects Steelhead, Chinook Salmon NOAA Fisheries Science August 24, 2022 8Simple filtration columns along roads can remove toxic substances and save fish. By NOAA Fisheries Stormwater runoff containing a toxic...
CAL MATTERS: Delta tunnel: Salmon at risk from massive water project, state report says Cal Matters News July 22, 2022 26By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters California’s water agency today released a long-awaited environmental report outlining the details and impacts of...
DWR NEWS: DWR and CDFW Release Fish Into the Wild Department of Water Resources (DWR) Agency News June 28, 2022From DWR News Oroville’s Feather River Fish Hatchery (FRFH) released over 11.3 million young Chinook salmon smolts into the waters...
FIVE QUESTIONS: John McManus, Golden State Salmon Association Maven Speeches and profiles June 21, 2022 375Welcome to Five Questions, a new (hopefully) weekly series that will pose five questions to folks working on California water...
ESTUARY NEWS: Reorienting to Salmon Recovery Estuary News Group NewsScience June 13, 2022 48by Alastair Bland, Estuary News Group The days when salmon and steelhead teemed in California’s coastal watersheds faded away last...