Yuba River Salmon Numbers For 2025 Offer Some Hope

From CBS Sacramento, an upswing in returning Yuba River offers some hope amid California’s ongoing salmon crisis. The report states the major increase in redds counted by the  South Yuba River Citizens League. Here are more details:

And for 2025, they’ve recorded 6,200 adult chinook salmon and counting, the most they’ve seen in more than a decade. 

“The need to do something about it has been present for a long time, but maybe in the last 10 to 15 years, restoration is a new science, and we’re still learning a lot from the work we’re currently doing. But there’s been a lot more funding available and political will to bring these large-scale projects online,” said Horvath.  …

“If we didn’t step in or continue to actively manage salmon populations through restoration, I would expect to see an increase in population decline to the point of a lot of our runs, or all of them, becoming extinct in the next 10 to 20 years. Salmon are facing a whole plethora of threats,” said Horvath.