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Working Together to Create Robust Salmon Populations

Bridge Group is a coalition of fishermen, farmers, researchers, and conservationists.

We are United by a Shared Truth

Healthy salmon populations are essential to our future. Whether we are growing food or catching fish, we depend on resilient river systems and science-driven strategies to restore the balance between water supply reliability and species recovery.

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Imprinting Project: Leading Salmon Back to their Spawning Grounds

A Bridge Group Project

On a floodplain there is a truck with a pipe that sends chinook salmon fry onto the floodplain to eat food

Fish on Floodplain Farm Fields: Reconnecting Salmon to Natural Food Source

A Bridge Group Project

Visit Our Coalition Members

Bridge Group members represent thousands of square miles of farmland across Northern California and hundreds of fishing businesses and guides operating from the Sacramento River to Monterey Bay and beyond the Oregon border.

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Bridge Group consists of the Sacramento River Settlement Contractors, California Rice Commission, Golden Gate Fishermen’s Association, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, the NorCal Guides and Sportsmen’s Association and Northern California Water Association.

We rely on modern science and reconciliation ecology to address migration challenges, hatchery practices, predatory impacts, food availability, and access to rearing habitat.