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Tag: hatchery

  • Time to rethink fish plantings in the Klamath

    By Rebecca M. Quiñones The Klamath River basin presents one of the best opportunities for the reform of hatchery practices and the recovery of wild salmon and trout populations in California. Much of the habitat for the Klamath’s Chinook, coho and steelhead fisheries is in relatively good shape compared with conditions in the Sacramento and…

  • Have our salmon and eat them too: Re-thinking Central Valley salmon hatcheries

    By Jacob Katz and Peter Moyle In the previous blog, Jay Lund argued that wide-scale, integrated management of California’s water system will better balance water needs of the environment and water demands by humans.  Here we expand on the need for fundamental shifts in policy to recover populations of Central Valley salmon using integrated management…