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Water agency approves $11B for California twin tunnels plan - LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s largest water agency on Tuesday approved a nearly $11 billion plan to help fund two enormous tunnels, breathing new life into Gov. Jerry Brown’s ambitious and controversial plan to remake the state’s water system. The board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California voted...
California doesn’t want this towering water project. Trump administration may build it anyway - The Trump administration is pushing forward with a colossal public works project in Northern California — heightening the towering Shasta Dam the equivalent of nearly two stories. The problem is that California is dead-set against the plan, and state law prohibits the 602-foot New Deal-era structure from getting any taller....
Feather River flow cranked up for young salmon - Yuba City >> A half-million baby spring-run salmon were released Monday into the Feather River, which is far less than normal, according to the Golden Gate Salmon Association. The fish were released downstream from the confluence with the Yuba River, according to the association. Normally 2 million of the spring-run...
These Chinook almost went extinct during California’s drought. Can this $100 million plan save them? - During the worst of California’s five-year drought, thousands of eggs and newly spawned salmon baked to death along a short stretch of the Sacramento River below Shasta Dam. The winter-run Chinook, already hanging by a thread, nearly went extinct. Hoping to avoid a repeat of that dire scenario, fisheries officials...
Hatchery-raised salmon released into Sierra creek to save endangered species - By Peter FimriteMarch 8, 2018 Updated: March 8, 2018 4:56pm Seeking to stave off the extinction of a storied species, state and federal wildlife officials are releasing 200,000 hatchery-raised salmon into a restored High Sierra creek where once-magnificent winter runs were wiped out over the past century. The releases starting...

San Francisco For Salmon 2018

May 18th, 2018 | 7:15pm | TwoXSea – San Francisco

California salmon are at greater risk than ever. Help protect our beautiful Northern California rivers and the salmon that live and migrate through them.

Join the Golden Gate Salmon Association (GGSA) for a salmon celebration and merriment! You will hear from fisherman, restauranteurs, and advocates that are passionate about seafood sustainability and the preservation of California's majestic king salmon population. SF's top chefs will be serving up delicious bites and chatting about the future of seafood.

Experiences, gear and acclaimed wines will be up for auction as well. Seghesio Winery and Lost Coast Brewing will fully host the bar so mark Friday, May 18th on your calendar and get your tickets now- The event sells out quickly!

Cocktail hour starts at 7:15, followed by dinner prepared by top San Francisco chefs and friends. Business casual attire. All proceeds to benefit the Golden Gate Salmon Association.

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Massive water-diverting Delta tunnels approved by Southern California water agency

Damage to salmon certain if built

Dead salmon in the Delta

On April 10 the board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California voted to support and fund construction of two massive water diversion tunnels around the Delta. The tunnels are designed to move water from the Sacramento River for delivery to the western San Joaquin Valley and southern California urban areas. This will rob the Delta of river flows needed to deliver baby salmon to the bay and flush toxins like blue-green algae. If built, the tunnels will kill salmon and turn the downstream Delta into a stagnant cesspool.

Twin Delta tunnels will divert Sacramento River water needed to flush the Delta leaving it a stagnant cesspool of toxic blue green algae

GGSA and allies are already in court challenging this project because federal fish experts have found the twin tunnels will be a disaster for salmon. Help GGSA defeat this salmon-killing project. Become a member here.

Shane Smith with a nice 2017 season salmon

2018 Ocean Salmon Fishing Seasons Slashed

Fishing curtailed due to drought hangover

San Francisco — The Pacific Fisheries Management Council (PFMC) has slashed ocean salmon fishing seasons for both sport and commercial salmon fishermen and women in 2018. The reduction in fishing days, announced April 10, amounts to cuts of about a third of the ocean sports fishery and over half of the commercial fishery, compared to a regular season. The drastic reductions are due to a forecast of relatively few adult Sacramento Basin fall-run salmon, which constrains the season this year. That forecast comes from the National Marine Fisheries Service based on a weighted return of subadult salmon to the Sacramento Valley in 2017.

Our Mission

Our mission is to protect and restore California’s largest salmon producing habitat comprised of the Central Valley rivers that feed both the Bay-Delta ecosystem and the communities that rely on salmon as a long-term, sustainable commercial, recreational and cultural resource. Salmon recovery is our passion.