But today, these fish are seldom seen. Southern California steelhead trout have been pushed to the brink of extinction as their river habitats have been altered by development and fragmented by ...

LOS ANGELES— A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has rejected a challenge from a water agency seeking to strip protections from the Southern California steelhead. The ruling adopted on Tuesday ...

Steelhead are a unique form of rainbow trout. Like salmon, they spent most of their adult lives in the ocean, but spawn in freshwater streams and rivers. Southern steelhead are survivors, adapted to ...

UC Santa Cruz has received nearly $7.5 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to vault ...

A Caltrans project along Pacific Coast Highway will help the endangered Southern California steelhead trout return to their historic habitat in the Santa Monica Mountains. These giant fish in the ...

Steelheads making their way up the Columbia and Snake Rivers - marking the highest numbers returning to spawning grounds in ...

The Rindge Dam in Malibu was completed in 1926 and has sat purposeless in the Santa Monica Mountains since the 1940s.

But regulatory agencies have said that the facility can create a barrier and needs to be replaced to allow endangered Southern California steelhead trout to move up and down the river. Plans now ...

An infestation of non-native golden mussels could cause ecological harm and compromise water infrastructure in the Sacramento ...

The dams were removed from Klamath River because they caused water quality problems that spread disease and killed thousands of salmon, officials say.

Rider owns The Outdoorsman, a store in Winthrop, Washington, and he’s had a lot of customers this week buying flies and other essentials for steelhead fishing on the Methow River. “It’s been ...

But California environmental groups ... where threatened and endangered fish species include steelhead trout, two types of Chinook salmon, longfin smelt, Delta smelt and green sturgeon.