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“We are hopeful that coho salmon released through this program will continue to return to the Russian River system in increasing numbers and begin to establish self-sustaining populations,” says Manfred Kittel, Coho Salmon Recovery Coordinator for DFG’s Bay Delta Region. “The program is a cornerstone of coho salmon recovery efforts in central California, but the number of fish observed this year must be seen in perspective. A healthy coho population should number in the tens of thousands in C...

While fall run chinook salmon numbers are on the upswing, the Sacramento adult winter chinook population, an endangered species, plummeted to only 1,596 fish in 2010. Photo of winter-run Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) reared to adulthood in a captive broodstock program at Bodega Marine Laboratory courtesy of UC Davis....

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Justice Department, California Water Boards and San Francisco Baykeeper today lodged a stipulated order that will settle a Clean Water Act enforcement action against seven municipalities in the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD)....

More information on west coast salmon returns and ocean fisheries can be found online in the PFMC’s “Review of the 2010 Ocean Salmon Fisheries” at http://www.pcouncil.org/salmon/stock-assessment-and-fishery-evaluation-safe-documents/review-of-2010-ocean-salmon-fisheries/. Photo: Michael O'Farrell of the National Marine Fisheries Service discusses Klamath and Sacramento River ocean harvest model results at the DFG salmon meeting in Santa Rosa on March 1....

I can very much relate to Stolpe’s research. Environmental politics in California has become severely corrupted by all of the corporate money that flows from Hewlett Packard, Intel, Getty Oil, Bechtel, Walmart and other corporations into foundations. The corporations’ agenda for putting so much money into big NGOs is to coopt, corrupt and eviscerate much of what passes for “environmentalism” in California today, not to “save” fish populations....

John Lewallen, a prominent North Coast environmentalist and co-founder of the Ocean Protection Coalition and the Seaweed Rebellion, applauds the lawsuit by United Anglers of Southern California, the Coastside Fishing Club, and Robert C. Fletcher against the corrupt Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative. Unlike some corporate "environmental" NGO leaders that support greenwashing under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's fast-track MLPA process, Lewallen sees the MLPA for a what is truly i...

A hearing was held at Napa Community College about the murders and assaults on staff and patients at the Napa State Hospital. Workers, relatives of patients and health and safety advocates spoke out....

Several hundred Napa State Hospital workers, their families and community members protested at the hospital on 1/19/2011 because of the death and injuries at the state hospital...

Demonstrators today blocked trucks from leaving PG&E’s Rohnert Park ‘smart’ meter installation yard and later shut down the company’s Santa Rosa customer service center for 3 hours, demanding an immediate halt to ‘smart’ meter installation, full disclosure of the microwave radiation emissions from the meters, and hearings at the state level on the health impacts of the meters....

"The MLPA is trying to ban any and all gathering along our coastline, meaning NO TRADITIONAL gathering whatsoever, in marine protected areas," said Georgiana Myers, organizer of the Klamath Justice Coalition and Yurok Tribal member. "I urge people to speak out against this insane idea of taking away what is not theirs to take!" Photo: Thomas O'Rourke, chair of the Yurok Tribal Council, speaks at a protest against the MLPA in Fort Bragg on July 21, 2010....