Blog: New actions for recovery of endangered winter-run Chinook salmon
For the first time since the construction of the Shasta Dam in the 1940s, endangered winter-run Chinook salmon have returned to the McCloud River upstream of Shasta Reservoir by way of egg release from a cohort of partners … Two-way trap and haul programs are a controversial recovery strategy with few, if any, programs exhibiting unambiguous success. Research … found that two-way trap and haul strategies have a number of uncertainties associated with them. The scientists recommend using extreme caution when employing such methods and clearly defining measureable success criteria.