To keep fish from getting stranded in irrigation ditches, irrigators who divert water from rivers and streams in the Salmon ...

Chinook salmon were once abundant in the North Yuba River in California’s Sierra Nevada. But since 1941, they’ve been kept out of the chilly, clear waters by the Englebright Dam. Now, for the first ...

Several months after the start of a pilot program aiming to restore salmon runs in California’s Sierra County, Chinook salmon can be found in the North Yuba River “for the first time in close ...

Between the main stem and its tributaries there is somewhere around 40 to 50 miles of habitat that is ideal for spring-run Chinook salmon for holding, spawning and rearing,” said Colin Purdy ...

“Between the mainstem and its tributaries there is somewhere around 40 to 50 miles of habitat that is ideal for spring-run Chinook salmon for holding, spawning and rearing.” California ...

Chinook salmon populations in California are still declining, despite salmon fishing being banned for two years.

California’s Chinook salmon population continues to decline, prompting concerns over a possible third consecutive closure of ...

Threats to Chinook salmon include habitat destruction from logging and road construction, water diversions, interbreeding with hatchery-raised fish, overharvest in commercial fisheries and dams ...

Chinook salmon are the largest of the Pacific salmon ... the salmon could warrant endangered status due to threats from habitat degradation, inadequate regulatory protections, competition from ...

California's salmon population has declined so severely over the last several years that regulators canceled the fishing ...

California Department of Fish and Wildlife Together with its tributaries, the North Yuba River can provide between 40 and 50 miles of ideal habitat for spring-run Chinook salmon, experts say.