Spring-run chinook salmon are swimming in the north Yuba River for the first time in a century
For the first time in roughly a century, spring-run Chinook salmon are swimming in the North Yuba River. And the program that put them there just got funded for another year. The Yuba Water Board of Directors approved a $500,000 grant to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife on Tuesday to continue the salmon reintroduction program in the upper reaches of the North Yuba River watershed. The two-year-old pilot program has already placed hundreds of thousands of salmon eggs and adult fish into a 12-mile stretch of gravel riverbed above Downieville. The process works in two phases. CDFW biologists inject pre-fertilized eggs directly into the gravel at the bottom of the river, mimicking natural spawning conditions. They also release adult salmon to lay eggs naturally.
Other anadromous fish news:
- FOX40: How wildlife officials saved nearly 6,000 trout from a Northern California creek
- The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.): Thousands of rare rainbow trout stranded in California creek rescued
- Active NorCal (Redding, Calif.): The Trump administration wants to send more Shasta Lake water to farmers. Salmon could pay the price.
- NOAA Fisheries: Blog: Decades of effort restore steelhead and salmon passage on California’s Alameda Creek
- Placer County: Blog: Salmon recorded in restored section of the Auburn Ravine
