Salmon habitat restoration work is not for everyone—think heavy lifting, unpredictable weather, and sometimes remote locations. You’ll definitely get your feet wet. All this is necessary, however, if we’re going to save wild salmon from extinction.
Very few people are aware of the robust population of native oysters that once thrived in Southern California. Experts discuss how to best fix this missing piece of the coastal ecosystem.
Ocean conditions for salmon headed to sea this year are very poor, with a high likelihood of depressing salmon returns to the Columbia River in the next few years.
Officials reopened Drayton Harbor, in northern Washington state, this winter to commercial oyster farming 22 years after the community stepped up to reduce water pollution.
Biologists at NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center have cracked the code for how to spawn Pacific sardines in the laboratory, opening a new window on the life cycle of the commercially important species.
Multiple partner agencies provided assistance to salmon & steelhead stranded as a result of the deteriorating Oroville Dam spillway, as well as to fish in the Feather River hatchery downstream.
After five years of drought, southern California has finally received some much-needed rain. Many creeks have been dry and disconnected from their estuaries and the ocean this year due to drought. Now, the water is flowing again! This is a welcome repriev
