Spring Chinook salmon (IMAGE)

NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region

Spring Chinook salmon

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Spring-run Chinook salmon in California’s Central Valley were once the backbone of California’s commercial salmon fishery, but are now a threatened species that remain in a few tributaries of the Sacramento River.

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Carson Jeffres/UC Davis

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