Coleman National Fish Hatchery, California’s most productive salmon hatchery, has 6 millioner few fish this year thanks to the five-year drought.

The number of salmon returning to spawn at Coleman National Fish Hatchery in Anderson could reach historic lows this year — a legacy of the five-year drought that ended last year.

Of the 11 projects that got funded, the Coleman National Fish Hatchery received the most, with $20 million. Shasta Dam also is getting money.

Of the 11 projects that got funded, the Coleman National Fish Hatchery received the most, with $20 million. Shasta Dam also is getting money.

The federal Coleman National Fish Hatchery tries to produce about 12 million fall-run Chinook salmon for release each spring into Battle Creek, a Sacramento River tributary south of Redding.

When Shasta Dam was built on the Sacramento River in the 1940s, the government also established Coleman National Fish Hatchery about 30 miles away on the tributary Battle Creek, ...

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. Latest U.S.

ANDERSON – The Coleman Fish Hatchery celebrated the return of the salmon on Saturday. This year was the 17th year for the Return of the Salmon Festival, which is held to help people learn abo… ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Brett Galyean, project leader at the Coleman hatchery, described “really low” numbers of 3- and 4-year-old adult Chinook.