Nearly any predator that can get its claws, beak, or teeth on a juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) will try to eat these young fish as they migrate to the ocean – and as salmon try to evade one hungry mouth, they may be vulnerable to getting eaten by another. Predation is a complex topic in part because the behavior...
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Trying to decipher last week’s rain and river level predictions was not for the faint of heart. But when it was all said and done, all of the North Coast rivers got the flushing they desperately needed. Some rivers, especially to our south, went far beyond what was forecast and eventually hit flood stage. Coastal rivers from the Smith to...
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The Chinook salmon quotas for the Upper Klamath and Upper Trinity have been met for adult Chinook salmon on Sunday October 24. As of October 25, 2021 you can only harvest jacks, (salmon under 23 inches, 2 per day, 6 in possession) on he Klamath above Weitchpec and above Cedar Flat Hwy 299 Bridge on the Trinity Rivers. The Lower...
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We haven't opened the ramps yet, we need about 5 more feet for the main ramp and we're waiting for the ground to stabilize a little on the south ramp but things are looking...up! ...
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Traveling upstream and downstream through a network of waterways is an important process of many fish life cycles – one that is threatened by centuries of dam construction in the United States that has turned rivers into a patchwork of habitat fragments. Better understanding about the negative impacts of habitat fragmentation has led to increasing efforts to reconnect rivers and help native...
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