2011-03-30 "Chinook and Sonoma County Water Agency" by Larry from "Northern California River Watch Activist's Blog"
[http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2011/03/30/chinook-and-sonoma-county-water-agency/]
When will the SCWA be updating this page on their website with the 2009 and 2010 Chinook count figures?
[http://www.scwa.ca.gov/chinook/]
The PD and other newspapers around the state seems to think every thing is just swell with our Chinook populations.
Tis it so in the Russian?
This has not been a banner year for Steelhead at the hatchery at Lake Sonoma.  Here are the numbers:
1,458 Steelhead, 44 Chinook and 8 Coho.  (The Chinook and Coho were lost and blamed it on their new GPS unit.)
At least 50 spawning pairs, or 100 fish are needed to sustain a salmonid population in one tributary.
The Russian is over 100 miles long and has over 100 tributaries that should be supporting salmonid spawning and rearing.