More than half a million young Chinook salmon are part of a new imprinting project aimed at getting the fish back to the Sacramento River as parts of the Northstate salmon fishery remain closed for a third year. The Bridge Group is working to speed up the return of salmon by placing 500,000 young Chinook salmon into protective net pens instead of trucking them away. The effort is a multiyear experiment designed to increase survival and ultimately boost the number of salmon that return to the Sacramento River. … Half of the fish will be released into the Sacramento River, while the other half will be trucked into San Francisco Bay. 

Other fishery news:

• SJV Water (Bakersfield, Calif.): Constitutional questions flow through Kern River case
• Western Outdoor News (San Clemente, Calif.): Bridge Group establishing creative solutions for salmon restoration by collaborating with a unique set of organizations​
• California Trout: Blog: A look back at the inaugural Southern Steelhead Symposium
• Washington State University: Blog: WSU is helping California tribe to bring salmon home