CDFW is taking bold action to safeguard the future of the state’s salmon and trout hatcheries with the launch of the Climate Induced Hatcheries Upgrade Project. This comprehensive initiative aims to lay the groundwork to modernize 21 trout and salmon hatcheries operated by CDFW to adapt to the growing impacts of climate change. Over the past decade, California hatcheries have experienced a host of climate-driven impacts, including reduced cold water availability, increased disease outbreaks, emergency fish evacuations, extreme weather events, threats of fire, and temporary facility closures.
CDFW contracted with McMillen Inc., an award winning engineering and environmental construction firm with extensive experience in hatchery design, water resources, and fisheries projects, to complete the Project. These reports are intended to provide an external and unbiased review of existing hatchery infrastructure and operations, and provide recommendations that could be taken to prepare these hatcheries for the impacts of climate change in both short term and 20-year timescale.
These hatchery reports are a key element of the California Salmon Strategy for a Hotter, Drier Future (PDF), which seeks to recover salmon and steelhead in California across their range, and the Strategic Plan for Trout and Inland Salmon Hatcheries (PDF) which guides trout and inland salmon hatchery operations and sets the framework to prepare these hatcheries for the impacts of climate change long term.
Hatchery Reports