Record low of winter chinook baby salmon reported at Red Bluff
A record low number of endangered winter-run Chinook salmon fry migrated downriver from Redding to Red Bluff on the Sacramento River this year, according to preliminary data collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) at Red Bluff Diversion Dam. An estimated 158,764 fry (baby salmon) have made it from below Keswick Dam to Red Bluff this drought year, compared to an average number of 1.3 million winter Chinook salmon. This is the second consecutive year that the service reported alarmingly low numbers of Chinooks.
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