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Personnel from a salvage crew wait to offload equipment from the Aleutian Storm, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. After offloading a pump and fuel hoses, the seas became too rough to continue working on the beached vessel at south Salmon Creek State Beach, north of Bodega Bay. (Kent Porter / The Press Democrat)

A Fishing Vessel Ran Aground at the Sonoma Coast. Could It Have Been Saved?

July 2024

The February wreck of the Aleutian Storm off Salmon Creek devastated the Sonoma Coast's close-knit commercial fishing community — and intensified levels of frustration with first responders.

Approximately ten thousand steelhead smolts, from the Warm Springs Fish Hatchery, are released into the Russian River at the Healdsburg Veterans' Memorial Beach Dam Fish Ladder in Healdsburg on Monday, January 24, 2022. (Christopher Chung/ The Press Democrat)

Where to See Steelhead Runs in Sonoma County

February 2022

Celebrating the return of spawning steelhead trout to the Russian River and its tributary creeks is a wintertime rite of passage.