Tag: salmon
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Fish passage, vehicle crossing project at Dye Creek underway
Courtesy photo/RCDTC — The Resource Conservation District of Tehama County is facilitating modifications for an improved fish passage and vehicle crossing at the Dye Creek and Shasta Boulevard Weir Crossing north of Los Molinos. In collaboration with project partners, the Resource Conservation District of Tehama County is facilitating the planning process and construction of an…
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Russian-Eel River stakeholders effort to find path forward without defunct power plant
Newly formed Russian River Water Forum will consider alternatives without hydroelectric plant that shunted Eel River water into the Russian River. Photo: Water from the Eel River collects at Van Arsdale Reservoir and flows over Cape Horn Dam. A percentage of the water is redirected through a diversion tunnel to the Potter Valley Powerhouse and…
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New Research Asks, “Can Pacific Salmon Keep Pace with Climate Change?”
A recent study— the largest of its kind— showed unpredictable changes in juvenile salmon migration timing in response to climate change. A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has found that salmon migration timing is changing in unpredictable ways in response to climate change. Dr. Eric Ward of NOAA Fisheries’ Northwest Fisheries…
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California could have avoided salmon season shutdown. Did we learn nothing last time?
Photo: Fishing boats docked in Bodega Bay on Mar. 3, 2023. Photo by Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters In summary The salmon population crash of 2008 felt like an anomaly in an otherwise productive fishery in California. Fifteen years later, the West Coast is right back where it started. Have we learned nothing in 15 years?…
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Federal researchers say two widely used pesticides harm many endangered fish species
Photo: A coho salmon in spawning colors. The National Marine Fisheries Service says that continued use of insect-killing chemicals containing carbaryl or methomyl likely jeopardizes dozens of endangered fish species — including Chinook salmon, coho salmon, sockeye salmon, and steelhead in the Columbia, Willamette and Snake rivers. Rick Swart / Oregon Department of Fish and…
