'Endangered coho salmon are on the brink of extinction, yet one of the largest populations left in California occur within 35 minutes of the Golden Gate Bridge.'
At first, barely visible beneath the rippling waters of Montezuma Creek in Forest Knolls, the bright red tail of a coho salmon suddenly emerged, splashing along the surface as it swam upstream.by Salmon Protection and Watershed Network biologist Ayano Hayes was a milestone for the Bay Area, marking the first time the endangered fish has been spotted in the small tributary of the San Geronimo Valley in Marin County since 2004.
“This is extremely exciting and is the result of big storms that have let coho salmon maneuver through culverts under roads that are a barrier to migration under lower flows,” said Hayes in a statement. The biologist also discovered salmon in Arroyo Creek, Woodacre Creek and Larsen Creek, where they had not been seen since 2006.to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, due to threats such as loss of habitat, overexploitation , interaction with hatchery-raised fish and climatic factors such as lack of precipitation. In recent years, the coho salmon that typically spawned in creeks between the Golden Gate and Monterey Bay were blocked by sand bars because of the drought.
"It may already be too late," Stafford Lehr, chief of fisheries for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife,Spawning season typically happens in December and January, and though thousands of coho salmon once made their way to the Bay Area, only “a couple hundred” now return each year, according to SPAWN.
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