Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek

A NOAA-funded project removed the final barrier on Alameda Creek in California's San Francisco Bay Area, allowing threatened Central California Coast steelhead and other migratory fish to reach spawning grounds for the first time in 50 years. The effort, which took nearly three decades and involved removing 18 barriers along the creek, culminated in relocating a Pacific Gas & Electric natural gas pipeline that had created an 8-foot drop blocking fish passage. Once the Bay Area's largest producer of steelhead and Chinook salmon, Alameda Creek may now restore its migratory fish populations.