An innovative Perthshire conservation project which uses ‘traffic lights’ to protect juvenile salmon is celebrating its second year without fish mortality. For almost a decade, young salmon or smolts were dying in high number during drought periods on the River…
Contact an Information Officer Bay Delta Region (Region 3): Implementing Landscape-Scale Invasive Predator Management to Recover Western Pond Turtle and Covered Amphibians in the West Hills of Santa Clara Valley, proposed within the[KS1] Santa Clara Valley Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP)/NCCP.
A Simon Fraser University-led research team has found significant evidence that human activity in estuaries is impacting juvenile Pacific and Atlantic salmon. INFOGRAPHIC SHOWS MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES THAT OCCUR IN ESTUARIES AND THE BIOLOGICAL SCALES AT WHICH IMPACTS ARE MEASURE FOR…
Salmon populations migrate through all major river systems on the West Coast in an ordered sequence. Each population has a characteristic run timing that has evolved over thousands of years to ensure that adults can reach their spawning grounds in…
Their annual migration has inspired dances, festivals, poems, and family recipes. From the West Coast of the United States to Russia and Sweden to Canada, these iconic fish have been the centerpiece of many different community traditions and fishing economies.
Across the West Coast region, 28 populations of salmon and steelhead are listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Habitat loss and degradation are primary factors in their decline. In California, nearly 90 percent of wetlands—crucial habitat for…
Lorraine Loomis and Kelly Susewind got it right. Their joint column called for collaboration as the state and tribal co-managers of Puget Sound salmon “struggle to share a shrinking resource.” The depressed status of many Puget Sound salmon stocks continue…
He and his Atlantic Salmon Federation and Fisheries and Oceans Canada collaborators started tagging salmon last month and have tagged more than 20 Atlantic salmon so far. Their goal is to better understand salmon movement and migration behaviors using special pop-off…
Unfortunately, they’re in pretty bad shape right now. The Penobscot River typically has about 75 percent of the Atlantic salmon in the United States, and in the last few years we’ve seen only a few hundred animals returning to that river.
NOAA Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announce the initiation of a 5-year review of the endangered Gulf of Maine Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). The Endangered Species Act (ESA) requires us to conduct a…
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