MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TargetR today announces that it has eliminated all farmed salmon from its fresh, frozen, and smoked seafood offerings in Target stores nationwide. This announcement includes Target owned brands – Archer FarmsR and Market PantryR – and national brands. All salmon sold under Target owned brands will now be wild-caught Alaskan … Read more
CHICO — The state Department of Fish and Game wants PG&E to put more water in Butte Creek to benefit salmon. The stream has one of the last remaining runs of naturally spawning spring-run salmon in California. It’s believed more water would contribute to keeping the run viable, and it might help prevent fish from … Read more
CHICO — More than 300 spring-run salmon got a helping human hand to make it home Wednesday. The big fish were in two pools in Butte Creek, just west of Highway 99, and probably would have died when the water got too warm, officials from the state Department of Fish and Game said. Altogether, 359 … Read more
The May 26, 2008 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle featured the article Salmon resurgence in Butte County. Here’s a snippet: The number of spawning fish returning from the ocean to Butte Creek increased 10 percent from 2006 to 2007, Harthorn said. By the look of things, he said, even more fish are returning this … Read more
For Immediate Release April 15, 2008 Contact:Emily Nucholsemily@wildsalmon.org Allen HarthornFriends of Butte Creekallen@buttecreek.org Dwindling Salmon Returns on West Coast Rivers, Plight of Fishermen Drives Renewed Push for Long-term solutions – Including the Removal of Four Lower Snake River Dams WHAT: A coalition of commercial and sports fishermen and conservationists will arrive in Chico Friday to … Read more
About 200 spring-run salmon, swimming in Butte Creek just south of Chico, will apparently die this summer before they can spawn. Action to try to save the big fish has been suggested. However, Tracy McReynolds, a fisheries biologist with the state Department of Fish and Game, said her agency has decided it’s best to leave … Read more
Chico Enterprise Record – 8/1/06 By Larry Mitchell, staff writer Let them eat salmon. That’s the wish of Allen Harthorn, one of the directors of Friends of Butte Creek, a local conservation group. He was among 30 people who spent Thursday through Saturday crawling over the Butte Creek watershed and noting the success of efforts to … Read more
Friends of Butte CreekAllen HarthornMichael Smith StreamindersRoger Cole Sacramento River Preservation TrustJohn Merz Private IndividualsEric Ginney
October 21, PGE flume operations dump sediment on spawning spring run salmon. No one at PGE even noticed the spill. Regional Water Quality Control Board and National Marine Fisheries Service are investigating. Serious slaps on the hand are expected.
August 12, thousands of dead spring run salmon are littering upper Butte Creek Canyon, results of a failure to do anything for the fish. These fish are not dying naturally as PGE claims. Water temperatures delivered by PGE hit 68° in July when cooler water was available. In the low – flow holding area where temperatures topped 70°, a rapid … Read more
