Category Archives: Salmon

Habitat Restoration for Chinook Salmon in Putah Creek: A Success Story

Posted on May 13, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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New paths to survival for endangered winter run Chinook salmon

Posted on January 7, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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Moving Salmon over Dams with Two-Way Trap and Haul

Posted on November 5, 2017 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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The Spawning Dead: Why Zombie Fish are the Anti-Apocalypse

Posted on October 29, 2017 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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The Future of California’s Unique Salmon and Trout: Good News, Bad News

Posted on May 16, 2017 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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What do stream fish do during flood flows?

Posted on March 5, 2017 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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The Horror of a Salmon’s Wheel of Misfortune

Posted on October 30, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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Scott Valley pioneers instream flow and groundwater management for reconciled water use

Posted on August 21, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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Trump’s Dubious Drought Claims

Posted on June 12, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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What lies behind the dam? In some cases, self-sustaining salmon

Posted on February 14, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

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 →

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