California Strongholds: Threats and Vulnerabilities Assessment

A truly effective salmon conservation effort in California requires state, federal, and tribal resource managers along with leading non-governmental agencies to prioritize, coordinate, and fund landscape-scale strategies to conserve the healthiest wild salmon ecosystems – known as “salmon strongholds” – across jurisdictional boundaries, in partnership with local stakeholders. To reach that goal, the effort must first identify threats and needs in each of California’s identified strongholds.

Oregonian: The State of Pacific Salmon? Not So Wild

Today’s public perception is that we can benefit — and in some cases recover – wild salmon through hatcheries. From our earliest school years we’re exposed to the notion of hatcheries as a tool for rebuilding salmon populations. But a growing body of scientific evidence suggests they may have the opposite effect. This apparent paradox is the subject of an international State of the Salmon conference starting today in Portland.