In an August 15, 2016 post on its Pacific Southwest Region website, the US Fish and Wildlife Service observed that the numbers of young green sturgeon have gone up this year in trap collections below the Red Bluff Diversion Dam.1 … Continue reading
The Symposium on the possible extinction of smelt held on March 29, 2016 offered no real solutions or solid recommendations for recovery of the two smelt species on the brink of extinction. My own presentation focused on the cause of … Continue reading
Species in the Spotlight The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has included the Sacramento River Winter-Run Chinook Salmon in its “Species in the Spotlight,”1 one of the eight species under NMFS’s jurisdiction nationwide that are most at risk of extinction. … Continue reading
In the last two summers, Winter Run salmon production was greatly reduced by Reclamation’s operations of the Shasta-Trinity Division of the Central Valley Project. While the drought brought on the problem and the specific damaging project operations, the damage done … Continue reading
In most years a concentration of spawning and rearing Delta Smelt is found in the Cache Slough Complex of the north Delta. The Cache Slough Complex consists of Cache Slough, Liberty Island and adjacent sloughs, and the Sacramento Deepwater Ship … Continue reading