The California Fish Website provides information and links about California's freshwater and anadromous fish & the conservation of native fish species.

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🍂🐟 Fall means prime time to help McCloud River Redband Trout! We teamed up with @CaliforniaDFW & Streamwise to build deeper, longer-lasting pools that protect this state species of special concern during droughts. Next up: monitoring results & expanding habitat restoration!
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📢 📢 Announcing the winners of the 2025 Fish Water People Photo Contest in collab w/ California Fly Fisher! With 500 submissions, our judges had a tough choice. Thank you to everyone who submitted or voted! 📸 📜 Discover the stories behind the pics: caltrout.org/photocontest/20…
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CA's rivers face a new threat – golden mussels. These tiny filter-feeders harm fish, clog pipes, & spread fast. We're partnering with @CaliforniaDFW, @Inyo_NF, & others to develop management strategies protecting Sierra watersheds. See how YOU can help: wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation…
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🐟 🏗️ A few weeks ago, our Iron Canyon Fish Passage project broke ground at Big Chico Creek. The project will restore access for steelhead & spring-run Chinook to their historical distribution in the Creek. Completion slated for 2027! More via @KRCR7 krcrtv.com/news/local/salmon…
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🚧🐟 Construction is underway on the Scott River! Led by the Yurok Tribe, w/ Farmers Ditch Co. & CalTrout, this project will restore fish habitat, improve flows, & balance ag enviro needs—key to post-dam recovery across the Klamath River watershed. 🔗 caltrout.org/news/yurok-trib…
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Last night, 200,000 #salmon smolts were released at Point Richmond with GSSA, CDFW, EBMUD, the City of Richmond & Richmond PAL. Over 20 kids joined Salty Lady Sportfishing to learn about salmon and witness the release—many experiencing the bay for the first time!
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🌊 There's a lot of chatter around dam removal on the Eel. We're cutting through the noise to share the most important facts (hint: economic reasons often drive dam removal). 🔍 Dive into our latest blog post to get the full story! caltrout.org/news/six-things…
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The restoration of Putah Creek has led to the return of Chinook #salmon completing their natural life cycle. UC Davis researchers analyzed fish found between 2016 & 2021, revealing some returning salmon originated there and were not strays from elsewhere phys.org/news/2025-03-stream…
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Putah Creek is one of the greatest env'tl comeback stories I've been a part of. And as Ethan's new paper in @ESAApplications shows (summarized in blog 👇) - the proof is in the pudding/data. And with new models, we can learn how to make env'tl flows/mgmt even better still 💪🏞️🐟
“Functional Flows are Good for California’s Native Fishes,” by Sarah Yarnell, Ethan Baruch @EthanBaruch, Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel, and Rob Lusardi. californiawaterblog.com/2025… #CAwater
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History made on the Eel River! 🚨 A landmark agreement will remove two obsolete dams, creating CA’s longest free-flowing river 🌊, restoring salmon runs 🐟 & securing water for communities. Led by Round Valley Indian Tribes & key partners. Learn more: caltrout.org/news/press-rele…
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SAVE THE DATE: March 21-23 will be our annual Native Fishes Retreat at Clear Lake State Park. This year’s retreat will be focused on Clear Lake hitch and other native species. More details and registration will be coming out soon! Photo credit: Matt Young #CalNevaAFS #NativeFish
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This winter, 25K acres of Sacramento Valley rice fields are growing food for endangered Chinook salmon! 🌾🐟 Scientists say 3.5M fish could double in weight thanks to nutrient-rich water from the fields. Bigger fish=better survival chances! 🐛➡️🐟 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=dA--XEY-…
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🌊 Meet Farrah Tyler, a CalTrout Fellow mapping the future of the Eel River watershed! Using GIS, she’s protecting threatened salmon & crushing it as a triathlete. 🐟 Her advice: "Follow environments you love & people doing good work.” 🌎 Read more: caltrout.org/news/get-to-kno…
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"Anticipating Increases in Flood Risk for Yolo County and its Native Fishes," by Peter Moyle. californiawaterblog.com/2025… #CAwater
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The Yurok Fisheries Department is analyzing scales from the 1st cohort of salmon to spawn above the former Klamath River dams in a century. The scale samples came fish that reproduced in Spencer, Jenny, Shovel, and Fall Creeks as well as the main-stem Klamath.
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Federal agency proposes protection of Clear Lake hitch lakeconews.com/news/80588-fe…

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“Delta Ecosystem Threatened by Another Nonnative Mollusk,” by Andrew Cohen and Peter Moyle. californiawaterblog.com/2025… #GoldenMussel #LimnopernaFortunei
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This was a fun blog to contribute to. Those that know me can probably guess which ones I added or worked on most 😉 Happy holidays all! 🎄🎅
"Dear Santa: A California Water Holiday Wish List," by Center for Watershed Sciences' Karrigan Börk, John Durand, Jay Lund @JayLund113, Christine Parisek @caparisek, Andrew Rypel @andrewrypel, Kathleen Schaefer, & Jonathan Walter @ecojaw. californiawaterblog.com/2024…
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Big congrats to Rachelle Tallman on publication of her experimental salmon-rice work in River Research and Applications! Thsi work shows how growth & in-field survival of juvenile Chinook salmon is high in rice. These results are impt for managers 🧵⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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