- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: December 1, 2011
![Wild coho salmon fry in Felta Creek, part of the Russian River watershed. (Photo: California Sea Grant)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/anrnews/blogfiles/9447small.jpg)
Wild coho salmon fry in Felta Creek, part of the Russian River watershed. (Photo: California Sea Grant)
California Sea Grant reported this week that a record number of coho salmon were counted in the downstream portions of the Russian River system in western Sonoma County, offering a glimmer of hope that recovery of the endangered silver salmon will be possible.
Adult coho also appear to be reproducing in some of their historical tributaries for the first time since biologists began visually counting, tagging and trapping fish in 2005. The fish appear to be occupying more tributaries of the river system, including some un-stocked creeks.
"There is still a long road to recovery of coho salmon, but the trend...
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