Joe Rosato Jr./NBC Bay Area A large chinook salmon swims in a tank at the Fall Creek Fish Hatchery after swimming up the Klamath River, past the area where four dams were recently removed.
Dams are a formidable obstruction for salmon swimming up river to spawn. But don't worry, the Whooshh Fish Transport System in collaboration with the Department of Energy has a solution — they ...
West Coast salmon anglers and native ... chinook spawning and even a few steelhead swimming in the upper river. “The fact that the fish are going up above the dams now … it definitely shines ...
Imagine standing on a riverbank as thousands of dead salmon float past, belly-up and rotting in ... dams were built on the river, blocking salmon from swimming upstream to spawn and limiting ...
On Oct. 16, Oregon officials announced that they had spotted chinook salmon swimming there for the first time in 112 years. By the end of the month, the Yurok Tribe had recorded more than 100 chinook ...
Salmon spend three to five years feeding and growing in the open sea before returning to their home rivers to spawn, swimming powerfully ... in the Sashiruigawa river is 9 degrees.
In 2023, an estimated 443 salmon returned to the river to spawn, compared to up to 4,000 a year in the 1980s Senior research assistant Will Beaumont said 2024's results had been "the worst we’ve ...