In a tough year for salmon, a record number of fish have returned to California’s Mokelumne River
A record number of over 20,000 fall-run Chinook salmon have returned to the Mokelumne River, a tributary of the San Joaquin River in the Central Valley, despite relatively low returns on some other Central Valley rivers. The fish are now returning from the ocean in a year where all salmon fishing was closed in California’s rivers and ocean waters, due to the projected low abundance of Sacramento and Klamath River fall-run Chinook salmon. Fishery managers and salmon advocates are keeping a close eye on this fall’s spawning escapement.
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