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Category Archives: Salmon
Habitat Restoration for Chinook Salmon in Putah Creek: A Success Story
by Eric Chapman, Emily Jacinto, and Peter Moyle 2017 was another good year for Chinook salmon in Putah Creek. Putah Creek is just a small stream flowing through Yolo and Solano counties, fed by releases of water from Lake Berryessa. … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Fish, Restoration, Salmon
Tagged Emily Jacinto, Eric Chapman, Peter Moyle, Putah Creek
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New paths to survival for endangered winter run Chinook salmon
by Anna Sturrock and Corey Phillis Many Californians have seen headlines about endangered Sacramento River Winter Run Chinook salmon (“winter run”) on the “brink of extinction.” But not many people know exactly what winter run are, nor why they are … Continue reading
Moving Salmon over Dams with Two-Way Trap and Haul
by Peter Moyle and Robert Lusardi Removing Shasta Dam is the single best action we can take to save California’s wild salmon. Not possible, you say? Then there are two alternatives. One is to provide plenty of cold water and … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Fish, Planning and Management, Salmon, Stressors, Sustainability
Tagged Peter Moyle, Robert Lusardi
9 Comments
The Spawning Dead: Why Zombie Fish are the Anti-Apocalypse
by Mollie Ogaz Imagine you are on the bank of a river or stream in California’s Central Valley. It is just past sunset, leaves rustle overhead, and you feel a tingling along your spine. Suddenly a zombie fish leaps … Continue reading
The Future of California’s Unique Salmon and Trout: Good News, Bad News
by Robert Lusardi, Peter Moyle, Patrick Samuel, and Jacob Katz California is a hot spot for endemic species, those found nowhere else in the world. Among these species are 20 kinds of salmon and trout. That is an astonishing number … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, California Water, Climate Change, Conservation, Fish, reconciliation, Salmon, Stressors, Uncategorized
Tagged Jacob Katz, Patrick Samuel, Peter Moyle, Robert Lusardi
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What do stream fish do during flood flows?
By Peter B. Moyle My local stream, Putah Creek, looks like a river these days. Water is pouring down the Glory Hole of Lake Berryessa and rushing in muddy turmoil from the ‘dry’ creeks that are its main tributaries. The … Continue reading
The Horror of a Salmon’s Wheel of Misfortune
By Miranda Tilcock Salmon in the Stream 10 little salmon eggs, resting in a redd 1 was covered in silt, now the egg is dead 9 little alevin, with their yolks attached, 1 was washed away, and never made it … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, education, Fish, Floodplains, Salmon, Uncategorized
Tagged Megan Nguyen, Miranda Tilcock
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Scott Valley pioneers instream flow and groundwater management for reconciled water use
by Gus Tolley The Scott River is one of California’s four major undammed streams and important spawning habitat for coho (a species listed as “threatened”) and Chinook salmon. This peaceful and pastoral agricultural valley is at the center of several … Continue reading
Posted in California Water, Groundwater, Planning and Management, Salmon, Uncategorized, Water Markets
Tagged Gus Tolley
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Trump’s Dubious Drought Claims
By Vanessa Schipani This post originally appeared on June 9, 2016 on FactCheck.org. The original post can be found here. Peter Moyle, Associate Director at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, and Jeffrey Mount, Senior Fellow at the Public … Continue reading
Posted in California Water, Delta, Delta Smelt, Drought, Fish, Salmon, Uncategorized
Tagged factcheck.org, Jeffrey Mount, Peter Moyle
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What lies behind the dam? In some cases, self-sustaining salmon
By K. Martin Perales Chinook salmon are a remarkably adaptable species. There is good reason to believe there are multiple populations of landlocked Chinook salmon completing their entire life cycle above Central Valley dams. We recently documented spawning above six of … Continue reading