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A Chinook salmon swims within a tributary of the Klamath River.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is excited to announce that adult fall-run Chinook salmon have begun occupying and spawning in newly accessible habitat behind the former dam locations on the Klamath River. These are the first observations of anadromous fish returning to California tributaries upstream of the former Iron Gate Dam since 1961.

Categories:   Environment, Fisheries, Habitat Restoration, Hatcheries, Klamath Basin, Salmon
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The California Fish and Game Commission acted on a variety of issues affecting California’s natural resources at its Oct. 9-10 meeting.

Categories:   FGC, Fisheries, Fishing, Marine, Rare Species, Species, Wildlife
Wildlife Prosecutor of the Year

Deputy City Attorney Mark Soto with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s (LACA) Office is the 2023 Wildlife Prosecutor of the Year, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced.

Categories:   Fisheries, Law Enforcement, Wildlife

The white sturgeon sport fishing season opens Oct. 1, 2024, for catch-and-release fishing ONLY.

Categories:   Fisheries, Fishing, Rare Species, Species, Sturgeon
A high Sierra lake surrounded by granite cliffs.

Sept. 7 is California Biodiversity Day, an annual event marking the anniversary of the launch of the California Biodiversity Initiative in 2018. California is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world and is one of 36 global biodiversity hotspots — areas containing exceptional concentrations of plant and animal species found nowhere else on the planet.

Categories:   Education, Environment, Fisheries, Marine, Outreach, Plants, Scientific Study, Species

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