Wednesday February 25, 2026
KRCR —
More than half a million young Chinook salmon are part of a new imprinting project aimed at getting the fish back to the Sacramento River as parts of the Northstate salmon fishery remain closed for a third year.
The Bridge Group is working to speed up the return of salmon by placing 500,000 young Chinook salmon into protective net pens instead of trucking them away. The effort is a multiyear experiment designed to increase survival and ultimately boost the number of salmon that return to the Sacramento River.