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2022-2024 News Releases

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  • September 25, 2024
a creek split into several channels in a grassy meadow

$41 million in grants were awarded for 20 restoration and protection projects throughout the state to benefit wetlands and meadows, Southern California steelhead and watersheds impacted by cannabis cultivation.

Categories: Environment, Grants, Habitat Restoration, Salmon, Wildlife
  • August 29, 2024
A panoramic, sweeping view of the mouth of the Klamath River where it enters the Pacific Ocean.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has released the “Klamath River Anadromous Fishery Reintroduction and Restoration Monitoring Plan,” a 60-page blueprint to guide the reintroduction and monitoring of Chinook salmon, coho salmon, steelhead and Pacific lamprey in a newly undammed Klamath River.

Categories: Environment, Fisheries, Fishing, Hatcheries, Klamath Basin, Salmon, Scientific Study, Species
  • August 16, 2024
Angler with silver Kokanee fish at Lake Berryessa

As part of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Hatchery Program’s mission to support fish conservation, angling opportunities and California’s economy, CDFW stocked 1.53 million inland Chinook and Kokanee salmon fingerlings into reservoirs in 17 counties this spring.

Categories: Fisheries, Fishing, Hatcheries, Salmon
  • June 14, 2024

As the sun set over the San Pablo Bay June 10, CDFW, joined by faculty, staff and students from the California State University Maritime Academy, released approximately 1 million fall-run Chinook salmon smolts from the Cal Maritime campus in Vallejo.

Categories: Fisheries, Hatcheries, Rare Species, Salmon
  • May 24, 2024
school of small silver fish

CDFW this week successfully completed the release of more than 2 million fall-run Chinook salmon smolts into the Klamath River.

Categories: Fisheries, Fishing, Hatcheries, Klamath Basin, Salmon

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