Steelhead, salmon thriving in Northern California

Feb 24th, 2019 by Keith Worrall 271

Modified Feb 24th, 2019 at 6:33 PM

Over the past ten days the Feather River Hatchery has been planting juvenile steelhead into the Feather River. This year the hatchery produced 460,000 fish for planting in the river and it took over a week with three trucks to get them all down to the Boyd’s Pump launch ramp. The ramp at Boyd’s Pump is a few miles below the mouth of the Yuba River and this year the conditions for planting the steelhead have been ideal.

The worst case scenario is low clear water where predators can find concentrations of small fish in shallow water. In these conditions both the birds as well as the stripers can devastate the juveniles as they slowly work their way down river. This year’s conditions were perfect.

Steelhead, salmon thriving in Northern California

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