News release: Explore the efforts of NOAA’s 2023 PCSRF grant recipients and the different projects they’re working on to restore pacific salmon and steelhead populations
Every year, we highlight some projects to illustrate how our partners across the region are addressing the factors that limit salmon recovery and building ecosystems resilient to climate change. What is being done to save Pacific salmon? The featured projects below are a sample of the thousands of salmon restoration projects that have been completed since the fund’s inception in 2000. … With $608,880 of PCSRF funds, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fisheries Restoration Grant Program supported the California Conservation Corps’ (CCC) Watershed Stewards Program (WSP). … For this particular effort, WSP recruited 44 Conservation Corps (CC) Members throughout coastal California to enhance the recovery of California Coastal Chinook salmon, Northern California steelhead, and Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast coho salmon.