Sacramento River - CA

Joe Livesay turns on the spigot and releases about 3,000 steelhead at the Bend Bridge Boat Ramp on the Sacramento River in Red Bluff. Credit: Steve Martarano/USFWS

All four rotary screw traps shown installed at the Red Bluff Diversion Dam. After a couple of days of operation, the traps had to be removed again due to high water flows. Credit: Steve Martarano/USFWS

Josh Gruber, supervisory fish biologist for the Mainstem Juvenile Monitoring Program. Credit: Steve Martarano/USFWS

Red Bluff Fish and Wildlife Office staff prepare to install a rotary screw trap at the Red Bluff Diversion Dam on the Sacramento River. Credit: Steve Martarano/USFWS

Biological technicians Geena Fritzmann and Brynn Perales work the Delta looking for the elusive Delta smelt on Jan. 11. Credit: Christopher Hart/USFWS

Red Bluff Fish and Wildlife Office staff clear debris from the river prior to reinstalling four rotary screw traps. Later in the week, before an even larger storm rolled in, they dismantled the traps and the process began again. Credit: Steve Martarano/USFWS

Despite the weather, Service biologists from the Lodi Fish and Wildlife Office (above) work on the Delta looking for the elusive Delta smelt. Crews have been on a regular four-days-per-week schedule. Credit: Steve Martarano/USFWS

Winter-run Chinook salmon embryos (like the ones shown above) hatch from their egg capsules after more than a month-long development period buried in gravel nests. Photos provided by NOAA.

Water flowing over a gravel riffle in the Sacramento River