Salmon that spawn in the Sacramento River

IN THE NEWS: Salmon that spawn in the Sacramento River in the Redding area are enduring the lowest survival rate on record this year. About 149,000 young winter-run chinook salmon have made it from Redding to Red Bluff this year on their annual trek to the Pacific Ocean, according to data from the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. In an average year, about 1.3 million of the winter-run salmon would be counted near the former Red Bluff Diversion Dam.