Los Angeles Times

With salmon at risk of extinction, California begins urgent rescue effort

Typically, now is the time when creeks along the Sacramento River are filled with young spring-run Chinook salmon preparing to make their journey downstream to the Pacific Ocean, where they will ...
UPI

Chinook salmon that migrate in spring, fall more alike than thought

Oct. 30 (UPI) --Traditionally, spring-run and fall-run Chinook salmon have been classified as two separate subspecies, or ecotypes, but new genetic analysis suggests the two groups are much more ...
ucdavis.edu

UC Davis to Safeguard Spring-Run Chinook Salmon Broodstock

California biologists collect young spring-run Chinook salmon in Deer Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River, on Oct. 10, 2023. (Peter Tira, California Department of Fish and Wildlife) The ...
Los Angeles Times

As California salmon population plummets, monster wildfire threatens spawning habitat

California’s spring-run Chinook salmon were already in the midst of a population crash before the Park fire exploded into the state’s fourth-largest wildfire in history. Biologists now worry the fire ...
kcra.com

Oroville spring-run salmon population hits historic low

Spawning season has begun for Feather River Hatchery’s threatened spring-run Chinook salmon, whose population is at a historic low.“What’s happening this year is the lowest number of spring-run fish ...