(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – A framework agreement between local, state and federal agencies was announced yesterday to reopen the Yuba River above Daguerre Point Dam to over 10 miles of river habitat to salmon, steelhead & sturgeon.

A press release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife says it would allow, most notably, “imperiled spring-run Chinook salmon” access to their native habitat in the North Yuba River for the first time in more than 100 years. It includes construction of a new fishway, a modernized water diversion to supply irrigation water south of the lower Yuba River, that will protect fish passing the intake and “a comprehensive reintroduction program with the goal of returning them to their original habitat in the North Yuba River as soon as 2025.”