Here's How We Help an Iconic California Fish Survive the Gauntlet of Today's Highly Modified Waterways

Here's how we help an iconic California fish survive the gauntlet of today's highly modified waterways

Imagine a world where just six out of every 100 newborns make it to their teenage years, the rest unable to survive post-apocalyptic environmental conditions that have become too strange and dangerous for human life. That's the plight of California's once-thriving Chinook salmon, a population that now sees 94% of its juveniles die within the few weeks they spend trying to reach the sea from the freshwater sources where they first hatched.

Warnings resurface over iconic fish

New Zealand's orange roughy stocks are under fresh scrutiny, and a major fishery faces closure