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The dam removal is part of a movement among tribes and environmental groups to restore the natural flow of rivers and the ...
New ‘facilitated migration’ framework gives water managers a playbook for getting more juvenile Chinook salmon from the ...
Fisheries officials have cited the nearly record-low numbers of fall-run Chinook salmon that returned to spawn in the Sacramento River last year. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife ...
To save even some of the Sacramento River’s salmon population, in a year where pumping water to farms has resulted in dangerously low water flows, California has had to resort to hauling ...
A February report by the Pacific Fishery Management Council found that only 6,160 fall-run Chinook wild salmon, also known as king salmon, returned to the upper Sacramento River in 2023 to spawn ...
For the first time in more than a century, salmon will soon have free passage along the Klamath River and its tributaries — a major watershed near the California-Oregon border — as the largest ...
Chinook Salmon swim up a fish ladder at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Feather River Hatchery just below the Lake Oroville dam during the California drought emergency on May ...
Chinook Salmon swim up a fish ladder at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Feather River Hatchery just below the Lake Oroville dam during the California drought emergency in 2021.
“California salmon are in dire straits,” said Nate Mantua, ... So there was joy on the Klamath River last month as crews broke ground on a megaproject to remove four old hydroelectric dams, ...
The Sacramento River, wide and swift, is the world’s only habitat for winter-run salmon. Thousands of Chinooks leave the frigid Pacific in December to begin a roughly 325-mile swim upstream to ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California will be closed for an unprecedented third year running, and sportfishing will be restricted to only a few days due ...