Fish passageways will help steelhead trout The Acorn By Stephanie Bertholdo September 2, 2010 The endangered Southern California steelhead trout will receive a fighting chance at repopulating the ...

Legal sparring begins on 2010 supplemental salmon BiOp The Columbia Basin Bulletin August 27, 2010 A coalition of fishing and conservation groups and the state of Oregon late last week asked that ...

Court upholds protections for Calif wild steelhead Mercury News The Associated Press August 20, 2010 A federal appeals court has upheld protections for wild steelhead trout in California rivers, r...

NOAA takes fresh look at hatchery plan The News Tribune By Kevin McCullen August 15, 2010 The agency overseeing Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead fishery management is exploring alternatives to ...

Group seeks opinion on new water standards Courthouse News Service By Karina Brown August 4, 2010 Two federal agencies never finished their assessment of whether new water quality standards for to...

Sea lion decline spurs federal fishing restriction plan Anchorage Daily News By Elizabeth Bluemink August 2, 2010 Federal regulators on Monday proposed new commercial fishing restrictions in the A...

New Yuba River fish study ordered The Sacramento Bee By Denny Walsh July 26, 2010 A federal agency's conclusion that two dams on the lower Yuba River will not jeopardize the existence of three thr...

Count of rescued salmon climbs Chico Enterprise-Record July 17, 2010 The final count in the rescue of spring-run chinook salmon along Butte Creek Thursday was 123 fish. State and federal fisheri...

Endangered salmon go through rough year KSBW News July 16, 2010 A year ago, scorching flames from the Lockheed fire threatened to boil Coho Salmon and Steelhead trout that were nursed at the Monte...

Trapped fish moved to cooler Butte Creek water ChicoER By Heather Hacking July 16, 2010 Workers cast a net across Butte Creek near Estates Way Wednesday morning, corralling dozens of spring-run Ch...

Yuba River ruling hits Fisheries Service Appeal-Democrat By Ben van der Meer July 13, 2010 A federal judge has ruled a federal biological opinion on how easy it is for threatened fish species to s...

Threatened Santa Ana sucker fish, new protections The Press-Enterprise By Janet Zimmerman July 6, 2010 Southern California water agencies have banded together to battle a federal proposal to se...

Bass-shad study to reduce non-native fish impacts The Columbia Basin Bulletin June 25, 2010 Researchers hope to launch this year an investigation into whether management actions might be necessary...

DFG working through fish plant reports The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling June 22, 2010 State biologists gauging the environmental impact of hatchery-raised trout have approved stocking all 6...

A plan to kill the Stanislaus River The Manteca Bulletin By Dennis Wyatt June 20, 2010 It's not exactly "Jaws" but the predators that lurk in the Stanislaus River unmercifully attack the young. ...

Striped bass: Delta villains? Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher June 15, 2010 It was 1879 when a Harvard-educated fish scientist took striped bass caught in New Jersey's Navesink River and poured...

San Joaquin Valley water allocation boosted again The Sacramento Bee By Michael Doyle June 15, 2010 Interior Department officials on Monday again boosted their planned irrigation water deliveries ...

Save the Stanislaus River Manteca Bulletin By Jeff Shields and Steve Knell June 13, 2010 Both the South San Joaquin and the Oakdale Irrigation Districts are in a fight for their lives against the ...

Task force announces strategies to integrate BDCP BiOp U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service June 9, 2010 A special joint agency task force today announced a near-term science strategy to support the impl...

Washington state sued to win water for salmon Environment News Service June 7, 2010 Fishing businesses and conservation groups filed suit Thursday against the Washington Department of Ecology, say...

Groups sue over endangered salmon The Epoch Times By Annie Wu June 6, 2010 Conservation group Idaho Rivers United, along with three fishing interest groups, filed suit last Thursday against the Wa...

Federal govt protects sturgeon in Sacramento River The Associated Press June 2, 2010 New federal regulations will soon prohibit catching, killing or harming the rare caviar-producing North America...

Review finds Oregon coastal coho still at risk Business Week By Jeff Barnard May 25, 2010 Oregon coastal coho salmon remain at moderate risk of extinction from the continued decline of habitat in ...

Obama Administration backs Bush-era salmon plan The Oregonian By Scott Learn May 20, 2010 After a court-ordered review, the Obama Administration today submitted its update to a 2008 Bush-era plan ...

Judge reverses stance on Delta rules Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher May 18, 2010 A federal judge who invalidated permits on California's dams and Delta pumps two years ago because they were to...

Decline of endangered delta smelt, nutrient pollution Physorg May 17, 2010 "While a great deal of emphasis has been placed on ensuring there is enough water for delta smelt, we also need to recogn...

Feds, PG&E warned about declining salmon runs Central Valley Business Times May 17, 2010 Conservation and fishing groups say Monday that they have notified the Federal Energy Regulatory Commis...

Feds fine Healdsburg grape grower for salmon kill The Press Democrat By Kevin McCallum May 11, 2010 Federal fisheries officials fined a Healdsburg grape growing family $115,500 Tuesday for frost-p...

Studies underway on Klamath River dam removal Siskiyou Daily By David Smith May 10, 2010 The status of a number of studies relating to the Klamath River was the focus of the recently-held Klamath ...

Too ugly to save? Pacific lamprey numbers plummet The News Tribune By K.C. Mehaffey May 8, 2010 Some 60 years ago, when the Columbia River ran free, a young Elmer Crow stood on the riverbank at t...

NOAA fisheries protects 3 rockfish The Seattle Times April 27, 2010 Three populations of rockfish in Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia have received federal protection under the Endangered Spe...

Calif. Spends $16.7M on "Crappy" Trout Projects CBS News April 26, 2010 California agencies have spent millions of dollars on concrete fish ladders, cameras, fishways and other contraptions to all...

Endangered sturgeon fish flourishing in Wisconsin The Washington Post By Carrie Antlfinger April 23, 2010 It's been a tough fight for the whisker-snouted sturgeon. The fish survived whatever kil...

Fish's comeback gets an upgrade Gazette-Times By Bennett Hall April 23, 2010 Less than 20 years ago, the tiny Oregon chub - a minnow found only in the Willamette Valley - was nearly wiped out. Now...

Comment opens on relisting Sacramento splittail The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite April 21, 2010 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opened the comment period Tuesday on whether to list ...

Central Valley fish might be declared endangered Central Valley Business Times April 19, 2010 The status of the Sacramento splittail fish is soon to be determined and that decision could impact wa...

Striped bass protections bill faces vocal opposition The Record April 16, 2010 More than 50 Delta fishermen and advocates spoke out against a bill that would have targeted protections for striped ...

Feds say coho salmon can be saved Mercury News By Kurtis Alexander April 8, 2010 The Central Coast's coho salmon, whose numbers have dwindled to a few dozen in Santa Cruz County, can be rescued fr...

Valley water agencies await fish ruling The Fresno Bee By John Ellis April 7, 2010 Water agencies representing millions of Californians made a final pitch Wednesday in their effort to derail feder...

Water supply up, but pumps shut down Western Farm Press April 5, 2010 With the Sierra snowpack's water content above average, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has increased its S...

Delta smelt move closer to being ‘endangered' CVBT April 2, 2010 The Delta smelt, a minnow-like fish that lives only in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, but is often in courtrooms, could be lis...

Sea lions are killed for eating endangered fish Daily Finance By Eric Wahlgren April 2, 2010 At Bonneville Dam along the scenic Columbia River that divides Oregon and Washington states, a battle i...

Steelhead monitoring station's numbers encouraging Napa Valley Register By Guy Carl April 2, 2010 The steelhead trout is one of many native fish that call the Napa River home, and has thrived in i...

Federal ruling slows Delta pumping The Fresno Bee By John Ellis March 31, 2010 Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta pumps will be ratcheted back today after a federal judge in Fresno rejected a request to...

Full story of Delta stressors yet to be revealed Fresno Bee March 28, 2010 The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is a crucial part of California's complicated and crumbling water system. But instead of...

Staging a comeback Democrat Herald By Bennett Hall March 27, 2010 Hip-deep in the murky water of a grass-choked beaver pond at Finley National Wildlife Refuge south of Corvallis, Brian Bangs inspe...

Assessment of salmon and steelhead ESA listings The Columbia Basin Bulletin March 19, 2010 NOAA Fisheries has initiated its planned five-year review of Pacific salmon and steelhead populations lis...

Scientists side with smelt, salmon protections The Los Angeles Times By Bettina Boxall March 19, 2010 A National Academy of Sciences panel has concluded that the much-disputed fish protections tha...

Protect whales or salmon they eat? The Bellingham Herald By Les Blumenthal March 17, 2010 When it comes to dinner, Puget Sound's killer whales show no respect for international boundaries. It's lo...

Judge orders review of water pumping limits By Maria Dinezo March 17, 2010 A federal judge in Sacramento sided with California water agencies and contractors in their dispute with the federal gove...

Water bank violated environmental laws The Fresno Bee March 17, 2010 An Alameda County judge has ruled that California water managers violated state environmental laws when they set up a water ban...

Pacific smelt under Endangered Species Act The Oregonian By Scott Learn March 16, 2010 Into the mid 1900s, Pacific smelt arrived in such abundance this time of year in Washington's Cowlitz River t...

Striped bass to blame for California's salmon decline The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser February 27, 2010 Some fish do the eating and others get eaten. That is the nature of nature. But if man ...

Cutthroat doing well enough to avoid listing The Columbia Basin Bulletin February 26, 2010 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it will again withdraw its proposal to list as thre...

Central Valley Project increases water allocations Central Valley Business Times February 26, 2010 The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says it plans to deliver 30 percent of water allocations for agric...

Fish find spawns debate The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler February 24, 2010 Biologists found federally protected steelhead stranded in shallow pools on the Calaveras River, and environmentalist...

NOAA takes back plan making dams safer for salmon The Seattle Times By Jeff Barnard February 20, 2010 The Obama administration is following a federal judge's advice and taking three months to once...

Bill aims to add flexibility to rules on fish protection California Farm Bureau Federation By Kate Campbell February 17, 2010 In a move aimed at increasing the amount of water going to storage fro...

California Fish and Game sued over hatchery fish Justice News Flash Nicole Howley February 16, 2010 Legal news for California environmental attorneys. Nonnative hatchery fish are threatening nativ...

Feinstein's play threatens to roil the water world The Sacramento Bee February 14, 2010 In her long and mostly distinguished career, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has championed many environmental ca...

Judge allows slowdown of pumps to protect smelt The Los Angeles Times By Bettina Boxall February 11, 2010 The big federal pumps that were cranked up over the weekend to send more Northern Californ...

Columbia River salmon dispute continues The New York Times By Colin Miner February 11, 2010 The federal government is being given one last chance to develop a plan that would allow endangered salm...

Watchdog's suit says hatchery fish hurt natives San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite February 11, 2010 An environmental watchdog group sued the state Wednesday for what representatives called ...

CDFG fish hatchery and stocking program Trading Markets February 5, 2010 SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announces the availability of the final EIR/EIS for the California Depart...

Judge hears arguments in case over Calif. salmon Mercury News February 2, 2010 A federal judge is weighing whether to relax pumping limits that are in place to protect salmon as they migrate throu...

Water agencies head to court to ask for relief Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher February 1, 2010 The state's biggest water players are asking a judge today to ease new Delta pumping limits that...

Sacramento splittail gets a fresh chance at survival Environment News Service January 26, 2010 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to revisit the politically twisted 2003 Bush administra...

Steady flow of conflicting views marks Delta debate Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser January 27, 2010 It's even more vexing if you're trying to figure out how the Delta environment works. A federa...

Science panel's review of California water woes The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser January 21, 2010 An elite science panel's work to clarify California's water problems has become, instead, the la...

Feds to study protections for sturgeon Asbury Park Press By Kirk Moore January 15, 2010 Descended from animals that swam among dinosaurs, Atlantic sturgeon still look the part with their flattish ...

White House to expand bull trout's protections The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch January 13, 2010 In a sharp course change from current federal policy, the Obama administration said Wednesday it wa...

Atlantic sturgeon eyed for listing as threatened Bangor Daily News By Kevin Miller January 8, 2010 Federal officials announced Thursday that they are considering whether to designate the Atlantic ...

Will judge approve Columbia River salmon plan? The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch January 5, 2010 For more than a year, salmon experts have been speculating about what U.S. District Court Judge Jame...

Evaluation of commercial 'selective' fishing gear Columbia Basin Bulletin December 22, 2009 A pilot study this year showed enough promise for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to expa...

Internal debate over Obama salmon plan The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch December 24, 2009 Independent scientists largely approved of the Obama administration's plan for Northwest salmon and dam, i...

Progress report on 2008 salmon BiOp implementation Columbia Basin Bulletin December 22, 2009 Federal officials say they are on track, and producing results in terms of improved fish survival, afte...

Rain aids West Marin salmon spawn The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite December 19, 2009 The celebrated salmon of west Marin County are taking advantage of the badly needed rain and are wr...

N. America's biggest fish slips toward extinction The Associated Press By Mattew Brown December 17, 2009 As efforts falter to save North America's largest freshwater fish - a toothless beast lefto...

Gone for decades, bull trout could soon return The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch December 8, 2009 It's been decades since anyone has seen a bull trout in the Clackamas River, east of Portland. I...

Santa Ana sucker fish may get more protection The Press-Enterprise By David Danelski December 8, 2009 Federal wildlife officials on Tuesday proposed new habitat protections for a rare fish along i...

Steelhead runs may return to Calaveras The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler November 28, 2009 Stockton's frequently forgotten Calaveras River could someday host a viable population of steelhead, a...

Judge likes NW salmon plan but sees legal flaw The Oakland Tribune By Tim Fought November 24, 2009 PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal judge says the government's latest plans for making Columbia Basin dams ...

Accounting of everything affecting Delta smelt, salmon Central Valley Business Times November 3, 2009 Legislation has been introduced by U.S. Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, that calls for a revi...

Plan to evaluate salmon passage survival The Columbia Basin Bulletin October 30, 2009 The Independent Scientific Review Panel has given a thumbs-up to a research plan aimed at evaluating whether, ...

Group sues Fish & Wildlife Service on delta smelt Yuba Net October 16, 2009 Warning that the federal government is mismanaging the delta smelt into extinction, the Council for Endangered Species A...

Green sturgeon gains habitat protection Center for Biological Diversity By Jeff Miller October 8, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO- The National Marine Fisheries Service today announced that areas of river, est...

Administration mulls new science review of CA water McClatchy By Michael Doyle September 25, 2009 WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration must now figure out whether to let scientists second-guess ...

The water wars San Francisco Bay Guardian By Rebecca Bowe September 2, 2009 When arch-conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity decided to weigh in recently on the contentious - and immensely compli...

Legislation enabling construction of peripheral canal Center for Biological Diversity September 2, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO-A coalition of 16 conservation, commercial-, and sport-fishing organizations ...

Steelhead restoration plan swims in difficult waters North County Times By Dave Downey August 25, 2009 Restoring the steelhead to San Diego and Riverside county streams will be virtually impossibl...

State to close Sacramento River to sturgeon fishing The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser August 25, 2009 Another of Northern California's native fish could become contraband for anglers next year as ...

Lawsuit seeks protection of Sacramento splittail Central Valley Business Times August 13, 2009 Another tiny fish that calls the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta home is the center of a federal lawsuit...

Opposition to Delta salmon rules mounts The Stockton Record August 9, 2009 SACRAMENTO - Legal challenges are mounting against new rules to protect salmon and steelhead from California's water work...

Calif. farmers say feds make drought worse USA Today By William M. Welch July 28, 2009 FIREBAUGH, Calif. - The road to Todd Allen's farm wends past irrigation canals filled with the water that Cal...

Court brings drop of sanity to water limits The Record Searchlight By Tom Elias July 21, 2009 At long last a federal court has recognized that efforts to save the endangered delta smelt actually h...

Endangered turtles released in Columbia Gorge KTAU News July 21, 2009 PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Oregon Zoo released nearly 60 endangered western pond turtles back to the wild on Monday. The release wa...

Action brings sense to muddy water issue Visalia Times-Delta By Don Curlee July 20, 2009 It might be just a trickle, but a stream of hope for improving California's overly regulated water supply b...

Leatherbacks feast off the coast Monterey County Herald By Lily Dayton July 19, 2009 When people think of Monterey Bay, they envision otters, humpbacks, historic schools of sardines -- but turtles...

Feds ban krill fishing to save it for the whales The Associated Press By Jeff Barnard July 14, 2009 No one fishes for krill off the West Coast, and federal fisheries managers want to keep it that ...

Plan to restore rare trout sparks protests USA Today By Jeff DeLong July 9, 2009 WALKER, Calif. - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Game are moving forwa...