Threatened Green Sturgeon Rescued from Fremont Weir and Returned to Sacramento River
Biologists from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recently saved a Sacramento River green sturgeon trapped in the Fremont Weir. The five-and-a-half-foot long fish was stranded in the nearly two-mile-long concrete weir when Sacramento River floodwaters receded. Sturgeon in this area are migrating up the Sacramento River to spawn above Red Bluff. Read more about Threatened Green Sturgeon Rescued from Fremont Weir and Returned to Sacramento River[…]