Marin’s coho salmon run off to ‘very busy’ start for season

Mark Prado, MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL
Endangered coho salmon are riding waves of rain into Marin in numbers not seen in a decade.
Earlier this month, Marin Municipal Water District ecologists counted 140 coho and 37 new redds — egg nests — in Lagunitas Creek over the course of seven days, the highest one-week count since 2006.
And last week, the district counted 59 fish and 21 redds in Devil’s Gulch Creek and 55 coho and 20 nests in the upper half of San Geronimo Creek.
“It’s very busy, there are a lot of coho out there,” said Greg Andrew, fishery program manager for the water district. “It’s a very active time.”
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