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Anchovy Dominated Diets off the West Coast Pose New Dangers for Salmon

Lack of key vitamin turns fatal for as many as half of salmon offspring.
June 25, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Group of people sorting fish in trays NOAA Fisheries scientists sort fish during the spring 2024 Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment Survey. These surveys reveal a coastal ocean dominated by a booming population of northern anchovy in recent years. Photo Credit: NOAA Fisheries.

$9.2 Million in Inflation Reduction Act Funds Awarded to Academic Partners for Pacific Salmon Recovery Science

Partnerships are key to strengthening NOAA’s science-based approach toward recovering imperiled Pacific salmon populations.
November 13, 2024 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Researchers on a small boat on a river Researches with the Fisheries Collaborative Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz deploy equipment to measure predation rates on juvenile salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Photo: Brendan Lehman

World’s Biggest Dam Removal Project to Open 420 Miles of Salmon Habitat this Fall

With the dams on the lower Klamath scheduled for complete removal by September, salmon will reenter 420 miles of habitat for the first time in a century. NOAA recommends $20 million in funding for additional river restoration.
July 23, 2024 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Demolition of Copco No. 1 Dam (Credit: Whitney Hassett/Swiftwater Films) Demolition of Copco No. 1 Dam (Credit: Whitney Hassett/Swiftwater Films)

Tracking Study Seeks Secrets of Some of the Sacramento’s Most Successful Salmon

Spring-run Chinook salmon from Butte Creek grow faster and survive better.
May 21, 2024 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Juvenile Chinook in a scale, weighing 19.6 grams Biologists measure and weigh a juvenile spring-Chinook salmon from Butte Creek. Photo: Jeremy Notch/SWFSC

Diverse Habitats Help Salmon Weather Unpredictable Climate Changes

Chinook in three creeks may be vulnerable alone, but resilient together.
March 13, 2024 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Chinook salmon jumping out of the water Spring-run Chinook salmon in California’s Central Valley were once the backbone of California’s commercial salmon fishery, but are now a threatened species that remain in a few tributaries of the Sacramento River. Photo: Carson Jeffres / University of California, Davis

NOAA’s Fisheries’ Office of Recreational Fisheries: 2023 In Review

Highlights of recreational fisheries efforts in 2023.
December 13, 2023 - Feature Story ,
National
anglers on fishing boat surrounded by snow-capped mountains

Cooperative Research: Citizens and Government Working Together to Study Fisheries

Learn how sport fishers are improving West Coast fisheries.
June 08, 2023 - Podcast ,
West Coast
Anglers hold a vermillion rockfish. Anglers hold a vermillion rockfish. Credit: Mark Kalez.

Sacramento River Pulse Flow Expected To Increase Survival of Juvenile Salmon Traveling to the Ocean

Spring surge to benefit spring-run Chinook and fall-run Chinook that support fisheries.
April 24, 2023 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
87mm juvenile salmon shown with an approximately 15mm acoustic tag for scale Acoustic tag laid on top of juvenile salmon to show the relative sizes. Credit: Jeremy Notch NOAA/UC Santa Cruz

Unsettled Pacific Ocean Offers Surprises as Climate Change Alters Ecosystem

New Ecosystem Status Report cites shakeup of familiar ecological relationships.
March 06, 2023 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Big Sur coastline

West Coast Species on the Move as Climate Change Drives Ecological Shifts, Analysis Shows

New vulnerability assessment finds vulnerable species have complex habitat needs.
February 21, 2023 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Run of salmon