Steelhead & Salmon

March 14, 2012

Trinity River Restoration Listens To Guides, Halts Gravel Infusion

March 14, 2012
CalTrout Backs Trinity Fly Fishing Guides The Trinity River has become a hot Northern California steelhead fishery over the last handful of years; its flows are
March 7, 2012

CalTrout Helping To Reconnect Central Valley Floodplains To Rivers

March 7, 2012
California’s Central Valley floodplains have been largely disconnected from the Sacramento River by levees, which have dramatically reduced the amount of “spillover” space available to the
March 5, 2012

California’s Salmon Hatchery System Needs Rethinking…

March 5, 2012
The effects of massive quantities of hatchery-raised salmon on native populations are only now becoming clear, and on the California Water Blog, Dr. Peter Moyle and
February 21, 2012

Curtis Knight Outlines Case For Klamath River Dam Removal

February 21, 2012
This Editorial supporting Klamath River dam removal was written by CalTrout Conservation Director Curtis Knight and published in the Siskiyou Daily News. This is CalTrout’s response
February 15, 2012

Study Suggests “Wild” Mokelume River Chinook Salmon Being Overrun By Genetically Damaging Hatchery Fish

February 15, 2012
Researchers have used genetic testing to uncover a distressing fact about fall-run Chinook salmon in the Mokelume River; only 10% of the fish are truly “wild.”
February 13, 2012

Stanford’s Searsville Dam Draws More Controversey, Calls For Removal

February 13, 2012
The calls for the removal of Stanford University’s Searsville Dam seem to be multiplying. The 65′ high dam — built in the late 1890s — has lost
February 7, 2012

A River At A Crossroads: The Case For Klamath Dam Removal

February 7, 2012
The Klamath River’s salmon and steelhead fisheries have been in steady decline for decades, and CalTrout strongly believes removing the four lower Klamath River dams remains
February 1, 2012

The Klamath Dam Removal Legislation: “The time for Congress to act is now”

February 1, 2012
The pressure is growing to take down the Klamath River Dams; the draft report released by the U.S. Department of the Interior says a landmark agreement
January 17, 2012

Final Steelhead Recovery Roadmap For Southern California Steelhead Released

January 17, 2012
In an important step towards steelhead recovery in California, NOAA Fisheries has released the final Steelhead Recovery Roadmap for Southern California. This from the NOAA site:
December 26, 2011

Connecting Sacramento River Floodplains Better For Agriculture & Salmon

December 26, 2011
Raising the vulnerable levees protecting California’s Central Valley from Sacramento River floods is an expensive project; a small group of growers and conservation groups (including CalTrout
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