ABC 7 NEWS - If you're a steelhead trout wanting to start a family, it's a long swim from San Francisco Bay to the sheltered breeding grounds of Alameda Creek. But now, for the first time in nearly three decades, that winding 40-mile path from Union City to the rolling foothills of Sunol is finally flowing free.

SF GATE - Fish biologists and environmental consultants documented two Chinook salmon in the upper Alameda Creek watershed on Nov. 19, nonprofit California Trout announced on Tuesday. Earlier that week, volunteers photographed almost a dozen of the fish in lower Niles Canyon, the Alameda Creek Alliance wrote in a Nov. 18 news release. 

CALTROUT - Earlier this month, California Trout (CalTrout) and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) wrapped up construction on a project that remediated the last unnatural barrier to fish passage on mainstem Alameda Creek, the largest local tributary to the San Francisco Bay.