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California Salmon Strategy for a Hotter, Drier Future: Restoring Aquatic Ecosystems in the Age of Climate Change
California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) | January 20th, 2024
The infrastructure built generations ago in California continues to limit salmon migration, and some dams
that remain on the landscape are well beyond their useful life. In the Central Valley, large dams were built starting in the early 1900s on almost all major rivers. Those dams now block salmon access to over 90 percent of their historical spawning and rearing habitat higher in mountain streams.
Keywords
adaptive management, anadromous fish, dam removal, ecosystem management, fisheries, native fish, tribal water issues, water project operations