Rare Native Trout Projects
California is home to one of the largest and most diverse collection of rare native trout species in the nation. Currently, all of these species are either threatened or endangered.
Native trout and salmon are important for the simple basic reason that each species has survived, evolved and adopted to its native heritage waters over thousands of years. When non-native fish are introduces to an area (i.e. brown trout to a rainbow trout habitat), many problems and issues ‘surface’. Hybridization, disease, elimination of the native fish and native amphibians are but a few of the list of issues.
TUCA has been involved since its beginnings in this state for preserving rare native trout species. Please explore the links above to our current projects and advocacy work.
We need everyone’s on-going support to continue collaborating with resource agencies and other like-minded groups to save them from extinction.