Salmon and rice may go nicely together on the dinner plate, but can they get along growing up? The Center's fish biologists want to know, because baby Chinook salmon once flourished in the same Sacramento Valley floodplains where mostly rice is grown today.

To find out, researchers on Feb. 19 released 50,000 juvenile salmon into a flooded 20-acre rice field north of Woodland. Learn and see more in today's Sacramento Bee