NOAA Fisheries comes through
NOAA Fisheries comes through with major assistance for needed improvements at the hatchery! They got grant funding to pay for an aquaculture engineer to design a system to provide for water recirculation, sediment removal and filtration, and U/V sterilization to kill...
California Drought Threatens Coho Salmon with Extinction
CBS News February 3, 2014 - "An entire species could be wiped out, as rivers and creeks run dry..." Original Article The MBSTP hatchery and coho captive brood-stock program are an essential component to the NOAA Coho Recovery Plan. The Southern coho (Central Coast...
Coho Brood-stock Captured In San Lorenzo Lagoon
On Wednesday afternoon a team of MBSTP volunteers and staff led by veteran MBSTP activist Matt McCaslin, along with NOAA scientists from the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, and CDFW representative Jon Jankovitz used a seine net to corral the fish in the San...
Scotts Creek Update
The Scotts Creek sandbar has yet to open this season! The Lagoon is full of water and full of coho and steelhead pre-smolts. Currently there is no evidence that coho are lingering at the mouth of the creek waiting to get in, but a number of coho have been sighted in...
SFGate Update on Threatening Drought
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Jan. 26 - "California Drought Threatens Coho Salmon With Extinction"... Original Article However, the MBSTP coho captive brood-stock program is alive and well. The unique races of coho that spawn and rear in creeks and rivers South of...
October 2013 Newsletter
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Scotts Creek
Monitoring Steelhead life history in Scott's Creek By Sean A. Hayes Progress Report for CA Dept of Fish & Game Award P0030648 Title: Coho & Steelhead Recovery in a Coastal California Stream. Below is a bulleted list of activities performed during the first...
State of the Project
By Allen Smith, Board Chairman At this time we are heavily involved in conducting our 13th annual Chinook Salmon Enhancement program at the Santa Cruz Boat harbor. This year we are not conducting our Chinook Program in Monterey City Harbor as well due to circumstances...
Hatchery Manager’s Report
Once again we have had a very busy winter and spring, complicated by this year's odd rainfall patterns. The slight rain the week of November wet the ground and did nothing to bring up the extremely low creek flows and none of the sand bars opened at any of the local...
A Different Point of View
I have enjoyed working with our Hatchery program here for over 8 years. Through that time I have learned a lot from a variety of people from all walks of life. My opinion seems less important as I have learned there are many points of view on every subject. That being...
