salmon

California Adopts Landmark River Plan to Bring Back Salmon

Photo: California is debating the future of the Merced River and others. (Steve Payer/California Department of Water Resources) [Pub. date:…

6 years ago

Northwest dams agree to spill more water to help salmon, orcas survive

The survival of Puget Sound’s orca population depends on the migration of endangered Chinook salmon. (USFWS) (Courthouse News) Dam operators…

6 years ago

Salmon surge: Habitat improvements paying off on one California river

A chinook, also called king salmon, attempts to jump up the fish ladder to the hatchery on the Mokelumne River…

6 years ago

California Court Finds Public Trust Doctrine Applies to State Groundwater Resources

Photo: Scott River, http://www.westernrivers.org/projectatlas/scott-river/ Court Rejects Claim That SGMA “Displaces” Public Trust’s Application to California Groundwater The California Court of…

6 years ago

Fraser River so warm it may kill migrating sockeye salmon

Photo: A worker with Fisheries and Oceans Canada tosses a sockeye salmon back into the water during tagging on the…

6 years ago