Salmon

The Yurok Tribe will hold its 59th annual Klamath Salmon Festival tomorrow. This free public event is a celebration of the importance of the Klamath River and its salmon to the Yurok people.

Chico State’s new president Stephen Perez discusses his goals for the university with NSPR ahead of his Fall Convocation speech yesterday. Also, concerns of a bomb threat at Paradise High put the school on lockdown on the first day back, and the Yurok Tribe’s 59th annual Klamath Salmon Festival takes place tomorrow.

Concern for salmon in Butte Creek continues following a rupture of a PG&E canal which washed a huge amount of debris into the stream. Also, Yuba County has confirmed a human case of West Nile Virus, and PG&E started work on undergrounding power lines in Magalia this week.

Nearly 1 in 4 Californians lack basic literacy skills, how libraries in the North State are trying to help. Also, the Oroville City Council will discuss adding new cameras to police cars at tonight’s meeting, and salmon in Butte Creek are threatened from sediment after a PG&E canal failed last week.

Cal Fire officials expect record-breaking precipitation to delay the start of peak fire season. Also, California officials are pledging to push for the Biden administration to act quickly on the state's request for disaster relief for the salmon fishing industry, and proposed legislation in California would require college students at public institutions to show proof of HPV vaccination.

Blue Dot examines the state of the Chinook salmon fishery in Northern California and the west coast from three perspectives.

A new program at Shasta County’s Coleman National Fish Hatchery aims to remedy the impacts of the drought on the salmon population in the Sacramento River.

This year the Klamath River and its tributaries saw a catastrophic fish kill that has all but eliminated the native juvenile salmon population. The Yurok Tribe is fighting for the health of the river and its salmon.

As California's extreme drought continues, low levels in the Klamath River have caused a catastrophic salmon kill. According to Yurok tribe biologists, 70% of the salmon caught for testing died from a pathogen Ceratonova Shasta (C. Shasta). 97% of juvenile salmon captured on the Klamath River's Shasta and Scott River tributaries were infected with C. Shasta, and would die from the pathogen.

In the short run it may preserve more legal jobs than ones in the fishing industry, but a recently introduced bill by Representative Jared Huffman (D-San…