Question
Why did the coho salmon come back?
Short answer
Two things at once. Trout Unlimited has installed large wood, removed fish passage barriers and worked to cut sediment on these streams since about 1999, and Pudding Creek showed 8 percent marine survival in the 2024 to 2025 season against 2 percent or lower in an ordinary year.
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Bringing Coho salmon back to the Mendocino Coast
Around 30,000 adult coho returned to Mendocino Coast rivers in the 2024 to 2025 season, roughly ten times the decade average. Trout Unlimited and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife had spent twenty-five years to get them to this point.
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