A juvenile coho salmon Credit: CDFW
July 4, 2026 – SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have announced the award of $44.3 million in grants to fund anadromous fish habitat restoration projects and directed studies to collect key fish data in the Central Valley and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The awards utilize funds appropriated in 2024 and stem from two separate funding opportunities.
Strong habitat investments support regulatory certainty and more reliable water supply deliveries from the Central Valley Project. Six directed studies were selected under the Central Valley Project Fish Information Needs Notice of Funding Opportunity, a competitive process that solicited proposals for projects that gather specific biological data on Chinook salmon, steelhead, Green and White sturgeon, and Delta smelt. The fish data gathered from these projects will be used to improve tools that evaluate species recovery actions in the Central Valley and the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta…