Sacramento River winter-run salmon face worst year ever
Sacramento River winter-run salmon face worst year ever –Redding Searchlight
Salmon that spawn in the Sacramento River in the Redding area are enduring the lowest survival rate on record this year. About 149,000 young winter-run chinook salmon have made it from Redding to Red Bluff this year on their annual trek to the Pacific Ocean, according to data from the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.