County supervisors are set to adopt a two-year building moratorium along streams in the San Geronimo Valley while they draft new plans and policies to ensure protection of endangered coho…
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FEWER endangered coho salmon are spawning in Marin this season than at any time in the past dozen years – and biologists don’t know why. What concerns fish watchers is that…
The spawning season for endangered coho salmon of Marin is the worst recorded in 12 years, causing high levels of concern by biologists who have been working to monitor and restore the endangered populations following a decade of stable or slightly increasing spawning numbers. Marin’s Lagunitas Watershed, located just 25 miles from downtown San Francisco, and one of the Bay Area’s most beloved salmon runs, boasts the largest remaining population of coho salmon left in Central California and upwards of 20% of the State’s total. Coho have already gone extinct in 90 percent of California streams that once supported this species.