Coho salmon smolt, juvenile brook lamprey (ammocoete) and sculpin at the Lower Austin Creek Migration Improvement Project. An important tributary of the lower Russian River in Sonoma County, Austin Creek is located about 4 miles from the ocean. MORE...

TU, NOAA, Bohan and Canelis, the California Department of Fish and Game, University of California and the Sonoma County Water Agency, working together, installed a rotary screw fish trap yesterday on lower Austin Creek. The first fish to emerge from the trap, after our first night fishing was a coho smolt. An auspicious beginning and a great omen for the success of our trapping season! Additional coho passed through on subsequent days.

For additional information, vist

• http://www.tucalifornia.org/policytrove1.htm
• http://www.spn.usace.army.mil/cohosalmon