Welcome to the Wormy Side of Salmonid Conservation
Dani Hartwigsen
Graduate Student
CSU Chico, Department of Biological Sciences
Save the salmon! That is a familiar sentiment here in the Central Valley, California. But how to go about it? Our salmon are hit hard from every direction you can imagine resulting in declining populations. One of those directions is through disease. Enter “worms”. Sounds like a stretch? Check out the research tab to learn more about how studying freshwater annelids can help in salmonid conservation!