Big rain year leads to big year for Bay Area salmon
Record-breaking rainfall drenched much of the Bay Area in late October and again around Christmas, leading to flooding, power outages, snarled traffic — and a great season for a fish that has had it rough in recent years. For East-Bay bound, fall-run Chinook salmon, which rely on continuous pulses of fresh water to grant them passage to upstream spawning grounds, the October rain event could not have come at a better time.