Fisheries

1. About Fish Habitat Enhancement

   Although heavily impacted by the effects of hydraulic gold mining and the federal government’s construction of Englebright Dam, the Lower Yuba River supports important fisheries.

2. Lower Yuba River Accord

   The award-winning Lower Yuba River Accord has resulted in significant benefits for Yuba County and California.

3. Voluntary Settlement Agreements

   Yuba Water Agency's collaborative framework to improve fish and wildlife habitat conditions in the San Francisco/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary watershed, including fisheries enhancement measures on the lower Yuba River.

4. Lower Yuba River Management Team (RMT)

   Welcome to the website of the Lower Yuba River Management Team (RMT)

5. Yuba Salmon Partnership

   The Yuba Salmon Partnership is working to develop a program to reintroduce spring-run Chinook salmon, and potentially steelhead, to the North Yuba River upstream of New Bullards Bar Dam and enhance salmonid habitat in the lower Yuba River downstream of Englebright Dam.

6. Fish in the Classroom Education Program

   The Classroom Aquarium Education Program, which began as the product of a thesis paper around 1993, has been educating young students about fish and the Yuba River watershed ever since.