Record numbers of nearly 1,000 adult steelhead returned to the Pelton Round Butte hydropower project on the Deschutes River ...

When rescued juvenile steelhead are released back into the Carmel River, they begin an incredible journey. After growing for two years near their birthplace, they trek to the Pacific Ocean.

Females may deposit eggs in four to five nests within a single redd. LIFE CYCLE: Steelhead eggs hatch in three to four weeks. Juvenile steelhead typically spend one to two years rearing in freshwater ...

Some of those fish are in distress, stranded as the river dries up. The team nets them and then trucks the rescued fish to a rearing facility or to a safer section of the river. “It feels good ...