To restore California's #salmon, researcher Carson Jeffres says we must build a "salmon society."
By routing juvenile #Chinook through floodplains like the Yolo Bypass, where food is 100x more abundant, they grow 8x faster than in the river.
UC Davis
At Davis Science Café, @ucdavis.bsky.social fish ecologist Carson Jeffres discussed salmon restoration, floodplain habitat and why rebuilding California salmon populations is a societal effort — not just a scientific one.
Read more about the research at the Letters and Science Magazine.
When Carson Jeffres looks at the Yolo Bypass, he sees much more than a heavily trafficked strip of I-80 cutting across land meant for water overflow and agriculture. He sees an ecosystem amidst transformation, one integral to making California, as Jeffr...
