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    • June 22, 2022
    A young girl looks across the evening landscape through a pair of binoculars.

    Back by popular demand, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) Nature Bowl 2022: Family Challenge is underway and ready for Californians to enjoy.

    Categories: Scientific Study, Wildlife
    • May 20, 2022

    California’s recreational ocean salmon season is underway, and so is the CDFW ocean salmon monitoring program. Anglers are encouraged to assist CDFW employees or agents who ask about their trip or request to examine the catch, as the information collected is essential to the science needed to support continued ocean salmon fishing opportunities in future years.

    Categories: Fisheries, Fishing, Marine, Salmon, Scientific Study, Species
    • May 5, 2022
    An adult, winter-run Chinook salmon is released into the cold waters of the North Fork Battle Creek.

    State and federal biologists have begun moving endangered adult winter-run Chinook salmon to the upper reaches of Battle Creek and threatened spring-run Chinook salmon to Clear Creek in northern California, where colder water temperatures will better support spawning and help their eggs survive the continuing drought.

    Categories: Drought, Fisheries, Habitat Restoration, Hatcheries, Salmon, Scientific Study
    • February 10, 2022
    A close-up view of the head and front section of a Chinook salmon.

    CDFW today announced that the Department of Water Resources (DWR) will receive $1.5 million in funding for the Juvenile Salmonid Collection System Pilot Project in the McCloud Arm of Shasta reservoir.

    Categories: Drought, Fisheries, Grants, Habitat Restoration, Rare Species, Salmon, Scientific Study