Nimbus Fish Hatchery and Kayaking in Gold River, California
Where is Gold River, California? What role does it play in the Central Valley's ecosystem? What IS in Gold River? We have so many questions.
Today we are taking you to Gold River in eastern Sacramento County. Join us as we discover the top things to do in Gold River...
Where are you from? What are the top three things to do in your city? Let us know in the comment section.
Places to go/Things to do:
Nimbus Fish Hatchery
Sacramento State Aquatic Center
Nimbus Dam Recreation Area
Places to eat:
Salt Sushi
Baskin-Robbins
Special thanks to Jason Ferrera of California Department of Fish & Wildlife and Roberto of Salt Sushi.
This travel vlog series aims to take you to the neighborhoods of Sacramento and surrounding cities. Our goal is to show you that many of these cities that we often just pass through to go to Reno, Tahoe or San Francisco, do offer many things that we can do and go back to.
If you have any suggestions on places that you like us to feature on our vlogs, let us know in the comment section. Thank you for watching!
TOP 3 THINGS TO DO in Gold River, California
6/25/17
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Nimbus Hatchery Salmon Laddder Opening
Today the California Department of Fish and Wildlife opened the Salmon ladder at Nimbus Hatchery in Gold River, Calif. More than 6,000 fish will be collected in the next few weeks and hatchery workers will spawn, raise and release about 4.4 million fall run Chinook Salmon in the spring. The hatchery is open every day form 7:30 to 3 and admission is free.
Gold River Hatchery Spawns Steelhead
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2014 Nimbus Fish Hatchery Closed while Salmon try to spawn
2014 Nimbus Fish Hatchery Closed while Salmon try to spawn
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Gold River, CA 95670
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*ATTENTION* Due to drought conditions, the raceways will be empty and closed until further notice. There are no fish available to feed at this time. The Visitor Center, Salmon play area, and River Trail are still open as usual.
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Rob on the Road: Nimbus Fish Hatchery
Gaze up at the galaxy at the Community Observatory in Placerville, explore the Sacramento Delta by bus, meet Sacramento State's Golden Grads as they reconvene after 50 years, and visit a hatchery dedicated to helping salmon.
Drought-struck salmon need a truck-load of help getting to the sea
In drought-stricken California, young Chinook salmon are hitting the road, not the river, to get to the Pacific Ocean.
Millions of six-month-old smolts - or young salmon - are hitching rides in tanker trucks because California's historic drought has depleted rivers and streams, making the annual migration to the ocean too dangerous for juvenile salmon.
Thousands of young salmon known as smolts are being pumped into the sea near Mare Island, north of San Francisco Bay.
This dumper truck is moving the Coleman hatchery fish from the river to the sea to ensure the young salmon actually reaches the sea.
750,000 smolts are gushing out of the long plastic pipes into floating netted pens.
Just a few centimetres long, the silvery smolts are getting used to the water in the net pens before Fishery Foundation boats take them out into the bay to be released, and pulled to the ocean by tides.
Kari Burr, fishery biologist, Fishery Foundation of California says the smolts would normally swim down the river, but the drought conditions could cause serious damage to the salmon population.
The drought conditions have caused lower flows in the rivers, warmer water temperatures, and the fish that would normally be swimming down the rivers would be very susceptible to predation and thermal stress.
California has been trucking hatchery-raised salmon for years to bypass river dams and giant pumps that funnel water to Southern California and Central Valley farms.
But this year state and federal wildlife agencies are trucking nearly 27 million smolts, about 50 percent more than normal, because of the drought, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Each spring, the Coleman National Fish Hatchery usually releases about 12 million smolts into Battle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River near Redding.
But this year, it trucked 7.5 million of them to San Francisco Bay because the drought had made the 300-mile swim too perilous.
Trucking the smolts ensures a large number will survive and grow to be the California king salmon prized by fishermen and seafood lovers. But skipping the river journey means the migratory fish won't know how to swim home to spawn in three years.
The federal hatchery in Shasta County did release 4.5 million smolts into Battle Creek in April after rain temporarily improved river flows. Hamelberg hopes at least a small number of them will return in a few years and serve as broodstock for future generations.
The state-run Nimbus Fish Hatchery near Sacramento usually releases 3 million of the 4 million Chinook smolts it raises into the nearby American River, but this year it's releasing all of them into the bay.
Because of the drought and the fish not being able to reach the ocean because of low waters, we're releasing them all directly into the bay, says fish technician Gregory Ferguson, who was herding the smolts in ponds toward pumps that sucked them into the truck tanks headed for Mare Island.
Ferguson says the fisheries are pooling resources: A lot of other hatcheries are experiencing the same problem, so basically they lend out a lot of Class A drivers and we're going all over the state and helping all the hatcheries haul fish this year.
The commercial and recreational fishing industries have been pushing for the expanded trucking program to increase the chances of a decent salmon season in 2016, when the smolts released this year will be adults.
John Terry, commercial salmon fisherman from Aberdeen, Washington makes his living from salmon fishing.
He says the fish need help to thrive: We really need it. We need everything we can to keep enhancing it. As mankind keeps encroaches on the natural habitat of these fish. We need everything we can to offset that.
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Tribal Fish Hatchery Sturgeon Release
See how the local tribal fish hatchery grow Sturgeon in their fish hatchery and then release them in the Sturgeon River in Burt Lake State Park.
Humboldt Steelhead Days 2017
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Largest Fish Hatchery On Sacramento River Faces Severe Salmon Shortage
The Coleman National Fish Hatchery says it will release half the number of fish that it usually releases, just 6 million of the 12 million salmon they plan to release each spring.
Nimbus Dam, Lake Natoma and Sac State Aquatic Center
Aerial Video of the Nimbus Dam, Lake Natoma and Sac State Aquatic Center.
American River Loaded with salmon!
Thousands of king salmon at Nimbus hatchery ladder, Sacramento.
Opening the Feather River Fish Hatchery Ladder
Fishing for Pink Salmon in the Puget Sound | My First Salmon EVER
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Fishing Session Aug 15 2019
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Fish Hatchery outside Wallace
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Salmon spawning process
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Salmon Trucked To Ocean Due To CA Drought (11 Mar 14)
From the Sacramento Bee: In severe drought plan, California salmon may be moved by truck. By Matt Weiser
Starting next month, millions of young California salmon could be migrating to the ocean in tanker trucks instead of swimming downstream in the Sacramento River.
On Monday, state and federal wildlife officials announced a plan to move hatchery-raised salmon by truck in the event the state's ongoing drought makes the Sacramento River and its tributaries inhospitable for the fish. They fear the rivers could become too shallow and warm to sustain salmon trying to migrate to sea on their own.
Shrunken habitat could deplete food supply for the young fish, and make them easier prey for predators. It also would make the water warmer, which can be lethal to salmon.
The conditions may be so poor as to produce unacceptable levels of mortality for the out-migrating juveniles, said Bob Clarke, fisheries program supervisor at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Clarke's agency operates Coleman National Fish Hatchery on Battle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River near Red Bluff. It is the largest salmon hatchery in the state, producing about 12 million fall-run Chinook salmon. The hatchery was built to atone for habitat losses caused by construction of Shasta Dam.
Coleman hatchery salmon are usually released into Battle Creek in April and May. Fishery experts prefer to release young fish into rivers so they imprint on the location as home and are better able to migrate back from the ocean for spawning three to four years later.
Fall-run Chinook salmon from the Sacramento River and its tributaries compose the bulk of the wild-caught salmon available in California markets and restaurants, and also feed a lucrative sport-fishing industry. In total, these fish represent a multibillion-dollar slice of the state's economy each year.
California is experiencing one of its driest winters on record. Despite the recent storms, the Sierra snowpack that the state relies on to replenish its reservoirs remains depleted. Without an unusually wet March -- and the long-term forecast calls for predominantly dry weather -- officials fear rivers may be so diminished in April and May that young salmon will not survive their migration to the ocean.
They are also concerned that water diversions from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta during a low-water year could slaughter many of these young salmon, which measure about 6 inches long. Water pumped out of the Delta by state and federal agencies serves 25 million people from Napa to San Diego.
The trucking plan, devised by the state and federal fisheries agencies, includes a series of triggers, based on river and water supply conditions, that would launch a massive operation to haul the salmon in tanker trucks on a nearly three-hour drive from Red Bluff to San Pablo Bay near Vallejo. There, the salmon would be released into floating net pens to acclimate to new salinity and temperature conditions, then set free to swim for the ocean.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is adopting similar plans for its hatcheries on the Feather, American and Mokelumne rivers. Each produces several million young salmon every year.
Historically, the state hatcheries have trucked a significant share of their salmon, even in normal water years, to protect them from pollution, predators and water diversions. More recently, the state began shifting some salmon to in-river releases following evidence that trucked fish are more prone to stray into the wrong river when they return to spawn as adults. This harms the unique genetic traits of each river's salmon species.
The department is in the midst of a multiyear study to evaluate the effectiveness of trucking versus in-river releases on salmon survival and migration. It also includes use of a barge to transport hatchery salmon. Aboard the barge, salmon are protected from predators and water diversions but experience the gradual changes in water temperature and chemistry that occur with a self-powered migration.
With trucking, by comparison, the salmon experience a kind of shock when suddenly released into the bay, which can make them more vulnerable to predators.
This year's salmon trucking plan is similar to one carried out in the drought of 1991-92. Officials view it as a one-time program to protect salmon during severe drought, not a change in hatchery policy. They're prepared to scrap the plan if the coming weeks bring significant rain.
We don't want to truck them down if conditions aren't going to be as bad as we think they're going to be, Clarke said.
Officials developed the plan in consultation with the fishing industry, which has been pressing for the trucking plan for weeks.
What this means is we'll likely have a much better salmon fishing season in 2016, when these fish reach adulthood, than we would have otherwise gotten, said John McManus, executive director of the Golden Gate Salmon Association.
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Salmon Population Depleted
The Pacific Fisheries Management Council plans to discuss the possibility of shortening or shutting down salmon fishing season to stop the decline of salmon in the Sacramento and American Rivers.