California's Yuba River sees highest salmon numbers in more than a decade

California's Yuba River. A nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the watershed has positive results to ...
Sacramento Bee

California salmon must return to the mountains. It’s time to take a chance | Opinion

Late in the 19th century on the McCloud River below Mount Shasta, California’s first hatchery began creating thousands of salmon embryos for an audacious plan to establish populations of California ...
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Salmon Spotted in California Creek for the First Time in Decades: Here's Why the Fish Are Back

This is the first time salmon have voluntarily used the watershed since the 1950s CalTrout.org Chinook salmon have been spotted in upper Alameda Creek in California for the first time since the 1950s ...

Coho salmon found in Sonoma Coast creek for first time in 60 years

Hundreds of young coho salmon were spotted in the East Branch Russian Gulch, which runs through the Jenner Headlands Preserve ...
ucdavis.edu

Record Returns: 2,100 Salmon Spawned in Putah Creek

UC Davis undergraduate Emily Bennett and junior specialist Peter Aronson measure and monitor a salmon at Putah Creek in Yolo County in the fall of 2025. This year experienced record runs for salmon at ...
Sacramento Bee

California leaders celebrate salmon ‘comeback’ but climate risks loom

A Chinook salmon jumps out of the water on the fish ladder at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024 in Sacramento. On Monday, Nov. 8, 2025, the National Marine Fisheries Service denied ...