The intense rain storms this year acted as a double-edged sword for Marin County’s endangered salmon runs and the biologists who monitor them. While providing ample water in local creeks and streams ...
GLEED - Biologist Todd Newsome lifted the two metal gates from their frame last week, effectively punching the tickets for young Coho salmon to start their trek to the Pacific Ocean. Over the next ...
NASELLE — The cycle of rebirth and renewal is underway at the Naselle Fish Hatchery, aided by an exceptional fall coho return. On Monday, Dec. 19, several Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ...
An endangered species is making a “surprisingly strong” return to a Bay Area creek. The latest count of coho redds (or nests) is over 70 in Olema Creek, about 3 miles southeast of Point Reyes National ...
The excitement started with a flash of silver followed by a hefty dose of disbelief. A team of conservationists and biologists from The Wildlands Conservancy, the nonprofit that manages the 5,600-acre ...
The number of coho salmon that returned to the Upper Willamette Basin in 2023 smashed previous records and provided a bright spot for anglers seeking to hook the delicious but enigmatic fish. Just ...
A researcher measures a dead coho found in Seattle’s Longfellow Creek in 2014. More than a decade ago, researchers began noticing that adult coho were dying before returning to spawn in urban creeks ...
As soon as it rains, coho salmon likely will swim up a small creek to a spawning ground in the west Sonoma County hills that has been impassable to the species for decades. When they come to the ...
Radio tags for a multi-year coho salmon monitoring project are inserted into the stomach through the mouth, with an antenna that sticks out. (From Alaska Department of Fish and Game) Last month, the ...