CREDIT: Shutterstock Fifty-four adult and hundreds of young fish have died in California’s Salmon River, due to low water flows and warmer-than-usual temperatures. A population assessment for Chinook salmon and Steelhead in the river found 300 to 600 juvenile fish — mainly Chinook — have died, prompting concerns over further reductions in the species’ populations as California’s drought persists.

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  • What's being done to save California salmon as populations continue to decline?
    He said the Sacramento River historically was one of the biggest salmon rivers on the West Coast, yet changes to the water temperature and river flow have caused populations to dwindle.
    04/23/2024 - 2:50 pm | View Link
  • As salmon are released into the Klamath River, tribal leaders see a ‘symbol of hope’
    While work crews continued dismantling dams on the Klamath River, leaders of four tribes gathered on a riverbank last week to watch and offer prayers as a valve on a tanker truck was opened.
    04/20/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
  • Column: The salmon industry faces extinction — not because of drought, but politics and government policies
    Snapshots from an environmental and economic disaster: Kenneth Brown, the owner of Bodega Tackle in Petaluma, reckons he has lost almost $450,000 in the last year. “I haven’t taken a paycheck ...
    04/18/2024 - 11:23 am | View Link
  • California splits the salmon
    A view of the Lower Yuba River and the Daguerre Point Dam ... to the standard activists want to see. The salmon are dying with and without water, and the farms are drying as California strangles ...
    04/18/2024 - 10:00 am | View Link
  • Thousands of salmon escape truck crash into nearby river
    Tens of thousands of endangered salmon being transported by truck to a US river miraculously survived ... with too little flow or unusually warm water can fatally disrupt that cycle, wildlife ...
    04/5/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
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