Salmon return to Alameda Creek for first time in 70 years
For the first time in 70 years, adult Chinook salmon have been spotted swimming the 86 vertical feet needed to return to Alameda Creek in lower Niles Canyon – and it could be a turning point in the decades-long effort to restore the East Bay’s watersheds. … Since the beginning of November, volunteers from the nonprofit group Alameda Creek Alliance — which has worked to remove dams and install fish ladders since 1997 — have recorded nearly a dozen specimens of Chinook Salmon. These sightings come just weeks after PG&E and the nonprofit CalTrout finished a $15 million project to remove a gas pipeline that was the last barrier impeding fish migration upstream.
Other salmon news:
- The Independent (Livermore, Calif.): Salmon make return to Sunol Valley for first time in more than 70 years
- E&E News by Politico: Sea lions keep gorging on endangered salmon despite 2018 law
- Active NorCal (Redding, Calif.): How scientists track chinook salmon migrating up the Sacramento River in real time
