World's Largest Salmon BBQ
Fort Bragg, CA
Saturday, July 4

Held each year in conjunction with the independance day festivities in Fort Bragg, the barbeque is one of Salmon Restoration Association's primary sources of funding for the year. Make a weekend of it, you'll be glad you did.

Live music, the aroma of grilled salmon, family and friends...life is good at the barbeque.

The BBQ will be held at 11 am - 6 pm in Fort Bragg. Click here for more informatioin.

Fisheries Service Issues New Rulebook to Protect Imperiled California Salmon

Current operations of state and federal water projects in California’s Central Valley jeopardize endangered California Chinook salmon and steelhead populations, according to a biological opinion filed today by the National Marine Fisheries Service. Today’s announcement also finds that current water operations jeopardize killer whales, which rely on Sacramento River salmon as a major food source.

The opinion establishes a new set of rules under which the state and federal water projects must be operated to protect California’s imperiled salmon. Key measures in the new biological opinion include:

• Requiring more cold water held behind Shasta dam for release during salmon migration and spawning seasons
• Reducing the amount of time Red Bluff Diversion Dam gates are closed, blocking salmon migration
• Modifying operation of Delta Cross Channel Gates to reduce the number of juvenile salmon unnaturally pushed to their deaths by predation and the delta water pumps
• Requiring better flows and colder water to enhance salmon spawning and habitat in the American and Stanislaus rivers
• Reducing water pumping when juvenile salmon are migrating through the delta

Read more about this issue here.