California salmon disaster continues World Fishing & Aquaculture September 6, 2010 US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has extended the disaster for California salmon fishermen due to the low num...

Chase for the king: Salmon fishermen return to Delta The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler September 3, 2010 There is a whiskered catfish, a spiny sturgeon and a gaping largemouth bass mounted on t...

Salmon fishing to reopen on Sacramento, American... The Modesto Bee July 21, 2010 State and federal fisheries officials believe that king salmon runs returning to Sacramento Valley streams have re...

Impacts of water temperature on salmon, steelhead The Columbia Basin Bulletin June 11, 2010 Remember when you were a child running barefoot -- how you would run quickly over a hot sidewalk, rest ...

Salmon seasons announced for Northern California rivers Napa Valley Register June 11, 2010 Continuing optimism about salmon populations has led to the announcement of fishing seasons this fall on ...

Report finds delta among most vulnerable rivers The San Francisco Chronicle By Kelly Zito June 2, 2010 The river system that makes up the backbone of the state's economy ranks as one of the most i...

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...

Salmon fishing regulations set for Feather River... Chico ER By Steve Carson May 28, 2010 Last week's teleconference vote by the California Fish and Game Commission finally approved 2010 salmon fi...

Mixed feelings about new salmon rules The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler May 21, 2010 For the first time since 2007, anglers this year can chase fall-run Chinook salmon on three Central Valley r...

Last of 1.3 million salmon trucked to bay The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling May 20, 2010 Trucks carried the last load of fall-run chinook salmon early Thursday from a north state fish hatche...

Studies link Sacramento sewage to Delta fish decline The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser May. 18, 2010 Two new studies point to Sacramento's wastewater as the culprit behind declining fish populatio...

Spring chinook reared in estuary net pens returning The Columbia Basin Bulletin May 14, 2010 The young hatchery spring chinook salmon that emerged from lower Columbia River estuary net pens two ye...

Go fish? News Review By Alastair Bland May 13, 2010 Last fall, the number of chinook salmon that returned to the Sacramento River was the lowest in history. Yet ocean fisherman have received the g...

Salmon hitch ride out to sea The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling April 26, 2010 As 10 million of their brethren navigate 200 miles of the Sacramento River to reach the sea, an additional 1.3 m...

Officials delay decision on salmon fishing The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser April 21, 2010 State wildlife officials on Wednesday delayed reopening recreational salmon fishing in Sacramento Valley...

Lake Shasta just 10 feet from being full Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling April 20, 2010 Another pounding rain in the north state Tuesday pushed Lake Shasta to within 10 feet of full. But th...

First fall-run chinook salmon fishing since '07 expected Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser April 20, 2010 When salmon return from the ocean this fall for their age-old spawning drama, American River a...

Ground broken for Red Bluff fish passage project The Record Searchlight By Janet O'Neill March 24, 2010 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar were among those who sp...

Salmon seasons might hold good news for anglers The Oregonian By Mike Wilson March 1, 2010 Fishery managers from the Pacific states will convene in the next few weeks to present options for offsho...

Feds predict better year for California salmon Mercury News By Mike Taugher February 24, 2010 Despite a record-low number of salmon returning to California rivers in the fall, there is a good chan...

Salmon population collapses By Alex Breitler Record Staff Writer February 19, 2010 Fishing guide Tim Bermingham gave up on San Joaquin River salmon a long time ago. "I remember catching 22-pound...

Salmon populations continue to decline Indian Country Today By Don Baumgart January 29, 2010 West Coast salmon fishing disappeared two years ago, under a government ban prompted by low fish popula...

Analysis under way for 2010 salmon season The Times-Standard By John Driscoll January 7, 2010 State biologists will be crunching numbers and counting fish over the next several weeks in a process ...

Salmon runs a bad sign for Oregon's fishing fleet The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch January 6, 2010 What remains of the Oregon coast's salmon fishing fleet is largely dependent on chinook salmon th...

Autumn chinook run falls short The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser January 4, 2010 Salmon didn't make the big fall comeback in Central Valley rivers that anglers and nature lovers yearned for, raisi...

Salmon lovers: pray for rain Chico Enterprise-Record By David Little January 3, 2010 I celebrated a birthday a couple of weeks ago. Trying to put a positive spin on things, I tried to dwell on the...

Safe harbor pact aimed at protecting landowners Capital Press By Tim Hearden January 2, 2010 Another so-called "safe harbor agreement" has been proposed by state and federal agencies, offering reg...

The fishing report The San Francisco Chronicle By Brian Hoffman December 24, 2009 The 2009 fall run of king salmon came and went, we'll call that a fact. Rode the summer ocean into the bay and del...

70-year-old scheme could be the future The Record Searchlight November 22, 2009 What if the best way to preserve the Sacramento River salmon had already been proposed 70 years ago, but nobody paid...

Salmon count up in Oroville area Oroville Mercury-Register By Mary Weston November 16, 2009 The fall Chinook salmon run was up on the Feather River this year, but down on the Sacramento River. P...

Salmon run bigger this year Auburn Journal By Kristine Guerra and Gloria Young November 17, 2009 The numbers are low by historical standards, but this year's expected 122,000 salmon run on the Sac...

Late-fall king salmon abundant The Sacramento Bee By Jim Jones November 12, 2009 KNIGHTS LANDING - Beginning Monday, anglers get a limited shot at catching king salmon fresh from the ocean on the ...

Restoring salmon and steelhead could cost billions The Record Searchlight By Scott Mobley October 8, 2009 A plan to restore endangered chinook salmon and threatened steelhead to Central Valley str...

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 ...

Salmon count worries linger Red Bluff Daily News By Geoff Johnson August 12, 2009 The counting of fall run chinook salmon will not begin until late September, but concerns are already floating amo...

Sacramento area is Delta's top pesticide source The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser July 14, 2009 Urban Sacramento is the leading source of pesticide contamination disrupting the Delta aquatic envir...

Restoring fisheries above dams faces high hurdles The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser June 22, 2009 The American River once hosted thousands of steelhead migrating upstream from the ocean in three s...

Recreational salmon fishing limited to single site The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser April 22, 2009 The Central Valley will again experience a curtailed recreational salmon fishing season this yea...

U.S. to ban commercial salmon season The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite April 9, 2009 Millbrae -- Lovers of king salmon will have to settle for fish hooked in the Pacific Northwest this ...

Salmon smolts again will be trucked The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling April 8, 2009 For the second year in a row, more than a million mini salmon will bypass their normal swim down the Sacra...

Delta rivers top U.S. most-troubled list The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser April 7, 2009 The Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers will be named today as the nation's most endangered waterways by the ...

Calif. salmon face extinction KCBS News By Margie Shafer April 4, 2009 MILLBRAE, Calif. (KCBS) -- Members of the Pacific Fisheries Management Council are deeply concerned that California's salmon...

Sacramento River's chinook face double whammy The San Francisco Chronicle By Jane Kay March 19, 2009 Sacramento River's prized chinook salmon suffered a one-two punch from poor conditions in the o...

Ocean caused Sacramento River salmon decline The Press Democrat By Robert Digitale March 18, 2009 The decline of Sacramento River salmon, which has prompted a proposed fishing ban for a second str...

Salmon booms and busts tough to change The San Francisco Chronicle By Jeff Barnard March 18, 2009 Federal fisheries biologists say the 2008 collapse of salmon returning to California's Sacramento ...

Salmon options discussed The Stockton Record By Peter Ottesen March 17, 2009 The Pacific Fishery Management Council has adopted public review options for the 2009 salmon season off the California ...

Where are the salmon solutions? The San Francisco Chronicle March 16, 2009 First it was a one-year ban, and now it's likely to be a second year with virtually no salmon fishing in California's oce...

Researchers learn about salmon migration KGO News By Wayne Freedman March 4, 2009 A unique surgical procedure is helping researchers get a better understanding of salmon. It is one of the most e...

Farms, cities may lose access to state's creeks, rivers The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser March 3, 2009 Thousands of California farms and cities have been warned that their permission to pump wat...

California ban on salmon fishing likely for '09 The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite February 26, 2009 Prospects are not good this year for the folks who fish for salmon off the California...

California could be salmonless again ESPN Outdoors By James Swan February 25, 2009 In 2002, 800,000 Chinook salmon passed through San Francisco Bay and up the Sacramento River to their ancestral s...

State will host meeting on salmon in Santa Rosa Indybay By Dan Bacher February 24, 2009 The California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) is hosting the annual meeting on California salmon populati...

Details of canal emerge The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler February 23, 2009 Piece by piece, details are emerging about a peripheral canal that could skirt water around, rather than through, th...

PFMC releases review of 2008 ocean fisheries The Columbia Basin Bulletin February 20, 2009 The Pacific Fishery Management Council's Salmon Technical Team has prepared a post-season review of the 2...

Smallest fall run of chinook salmon reported The San Francisco Chronicle By Jane Kay February 19, 2009 The smallest number of Pacific Ocean salmon ever recorded swam back to the Sacramento River v...

Returning chinook salmon a record low The Sacramento Bee By Jason Dearen February 18, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO -- A record-low number of chinook salmon returned to rivers in California's Central Valley ...

Salmon press conference at ISE drops a few bombshells The Oroville Mercury-Register By Steve Carson January 23, 2009 Last week's International Sportsmen's Exposition show at Cal-Expo in Sacramento...

Extinction imminent for California salmon? Napa Valley Register By Guy Carl January 23, 2009 The treasured salmon runs of California's rivers are in real danger of disappearing forever. The retu...

Are Hungry Sea Lions Eating Spawning Salmon? KCRA January 8, 2009 Local Professor Looking For Solution To Population Dip SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Hungry sea lions could be partly to blame for a sud...

Chinook returning to Sacramento River down The Stockton Record By Peter Ottesen January 06, 2009 More bad news about salmon comes from Dick Pool, editor of Water4Fish.org, who believes there can b...

Another View: Sanitation Agency Ready to Help Delta The Sacramento Bee By Mary K. Snyder January 4, 2009 Members of the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District are glad to read that The Bee...

Sea lions along Sacramento River blamed for salmon decline The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser January 2, 2009 Ask a Sacramento angler for reasons why Central Valley salmon populations have crashed ...

Healthy salmon runs on other rivers raise questions about the Sacramento The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling December 14, 2008 Dismal salmon returns on the Sacramento River in recent years hav...

Stream is half full for state's wild fisheries Record Searchlight November 22, 2008 Our view: A CalTrout report warns of mass extinctions, but we're also making great progress in learning to live ...

Radio implants to track salmon through Delta The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser November 15, 2008 A swarm of 6,000 bionic salmon has become the latest tool in an ongoing struggle to protect declini...

Chinook Salmon's Last Meal? Scienceline By Lynne Peeples November 7, 2008 A cooler ocean is feeding hungry salmon, but their ultimate survival remains uncertain. Young Chinook salmon entering th...

Salmon run watched with wary eyes Stockton Record By Alex Breitler November 1, 2008 Disastrous 2007 season has many anglers worried Salmon fishing season - if you could call it that - begins tod...

Track the salmon in California Contra Costa Times October 29,2008 AN INNOVATIVE TRACKING system used in the Northwest came to some surprising discoveries while tracking juvenile salmon migrating d...

Average rain year won't cut it Sacramento Business Journal By Celia Lamb October 3, 2008 Still, Sacramento area will fare better than most California's new water year started Wednesday with sunny ...

PFMC Hears Progress Report On Analysis Of West Coast Salmon Stock Decline The Columbian Basin Bulletin September 12, 2008 An analysis of potential causes of an unprecedented collapse of salmon sto...

Smelt again at center of water conflict: Environmentalists want 3 dozen contracts canceled or reworked. The Fresno Bee By John Ellis September 11, 2008 Environmentalists want the federal governme...

A Strategy for Coping with Climate Change: Amid rising seas, a California modeling effort recommends abandoning land tracts in the Sacramento Delta. MIT Technology Review By David Talbot September 1...

Cold water rings dinner bell for West Coast salmon The Associated Press By Jeff Barnard September 10, 2008 A federal oceanographer says a flip-flop in atmospheric conditions is creating a feast fo...

NOAA Proposes Critical Habitat for Southern Population of North American Green Sturgeon NOAA Fisheries Service September 5, 2008 NOAA's Fisheries Service is seeking public comment on a proposal th...

Critical Habitat Protection From Monterey Bay To Canadian Border Proposed For Desperately Imperiled Southern Green Sturgeon Center for Biological Diversity September 5, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO- The Nat...

Move Over California Legislature: State Agency Proposes to Build Peripheral Canal By 2015 California Progress Report By Traci Sheehan February 24, 2008 While countless hours are being spent in the ...

Unprecedented Collapse of Central Valley Salmon Is No Surprise Indybay By Dan Bacher February 19, 2008 The latest federal government data on 2007's chinook salmon run on the Sacramento River point...

Why fish love Yolo Bypass just as much as birds Daily Democrat By Ted Sommer February 9, 2008 The recent rainy weather gives us hope that we will not have another drought year, and the sight of wa...

Low west coast salmon returns; why the variations? The Columbia Basin Bulletin March 21, 2008 Anticipated record low returns of chinook salmon to the Sacramento and Klamath rivers, and expected lo...