California's Lost Salmon

Chris Bauer Video on May 12, 2009 by for
Topics: Biodiversity, Biology, Environment, Sustainable Food, Television
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Because of a sharp decline in their numbers, the entire salmon fishing season in the ocean off California and Oregon was canceled in both 2008 and 2009. At no other time in history has this salmon fishery been closed. The species in the most danger is the California coho salmon. Quest looks at efforts to protect the coho in Northern California and explores the important role salmon play in the native ecosystem.

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  • http://kqed.org/quest Chris Bauer

    STORY UPDATE:
    Watch a short video "Monitoring Our Endangered Coho Salmon and see a short public service announcement illustrating a fun fact about the endangered coho salmon – here:
    http://sfnps.org/coho/multimedia

    While spawning coho in Central California once numbered in the tens of thousands, estimates now put their numbers at fewer than 500. Learning about the coho population through monitoring helps researchers target efforts aimed at helping the coho recover. Fishery Biologist Mike Reichmuth and Intern Ben Atencio discuss our endangered coho salmon and how they are monitored in the Bay Area National Parks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/vira.burgerman Vira Burgerman

    Thank you for this amazing video and helping us all understand what our part can be to save the Salmon in our Russian River ,and all Calif. spawning tributaries. I am hoping to influence B.B Fishermans festival end of April to have SPAWN or another such group at the fest playing these video's. i do a Mermaidfest in Russian River end of Oct. Last year was the 10th yr. anniversary. We did a blessing for the Salmon. and years prior played this and other video's for fest goer's. This year rather then do the festival i will be doing a Mermaid Parade. It would be very effective if we could somehow get groups working to save the salmon to do a float in the parade ,which is Aug. 17th , 2013 in Guerneville,Ca. Maybe even get a video screen in the square showing these video's .Anyone interested in helping the above in any way happen ,Please contact me thecaliforniamermaid@yahoo.com