CDFW launched the North Coast Salmon Project (NCSP) in 2018 to expedite and enhance efforts to recover threatened and endangered Coho Salmon in California. The NCSP has initially focused on developing strategies to be applied in four specific watershed areas; these approaches will then be extended across the entire North Coast.
The NCSP is guided by an Advisory Team consisting of representatives from conservation groups and resource management agencies who work in the North Coast region including California Trout, Trout Unlimited, Salmonid Restoration Federation, The Nature Conservancy, and the California Association of Resource Conservation Districts. In addition, CDFW will seek input from local stakeholders and tribes within each of the four initial watersheds identified above.