chinook
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife wrote that it is concerned about weakened protections for winter-run and spring-run chinook salmon, steelhead trout, delta smelt and longfin smelt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
This undammed river, a tributary of the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border, is one of the last remaining strongholds of a type of salmon that is increasingly at risk of extinction: spring-run chinook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
Most years, fishing crews fan out in boats along the California coast to catch fall-run chinook, the most numerous variety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
Soto watched as a group of men wearing wetsuits, masks and snorkels swam in Wooley Creek, a tributary of the Salmon River, searching in the clear water for juvenile chinook and coho salmon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
He and Harry Secor had worked together to stalk the giant chinook salmon of the Dungeness River.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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