A growing number of wild Chinook salmon are turning up and spawning in a most unlikely place: an urban stream in the South Bay.
In a shallow, murky stream next to the Highway 17 freeway and against all odds, the Chinook salmon have returned to reproduce.There is growing evidence that these could be wild fish born free, descendants of the salmon that have been coming to the watershed for tens of thousands of years. Not hatchery strays that somehow wandered into these waters by accident.
Holmes did not start out as a conservationist. He was a businessman who went on fishing trips. But when he realized there were also salmon closer to home, he became their protector.He is the driving force behind regular cleanups with hundreds of volunteers. They remove tons of trash for waterways each year.
When the salmon are running, Holmes is in the creeks every day, often picking up trash from homeless encampments.Only about ten percent of salmon under the best conditions make it back to their home streams. For salmon in the urban waterways, that percentage is much less. "Now, we've kind of hit rock bottom. We're trying to clean up the streams and we're now seeing the numbers starting to come up," Holmes said.
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