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 ...
In a heartening turn of events, endangered coho salmon are making a comeback to a Bay Area creek, offering hope for the species' recovery. As reported by SFGate, the San Francisco Bay Area Inventory & ...
Nearly perfect ocean conditions and a high survival rate of smolt that headed to the Pacific Ocean in 2008, have led to a record number of coho salmon returning to Willamette Valley rivers to spawn.
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 number of coho salmon that returned to the Upper Willamette Basin in 2023 smashed previous records and provided a bright spot for anglers seeking hook the delicious but enigmatic fish. Just under ...
Marin biologists say an early abundance of salmon returning to nesting grounds in local creeks is signaling that this year’s spawning season could be one for the record books. “We saw more chinook ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sep. 12—TRAVERSE CITY — Salmon jumped against the concrete walls of the James P. Price Trap and Transfer Facility as curious passersby saw it teeming with fish. Wednesday marked the first full day of ...