Nigiri Project Content / Nigiri Project Content for 51ԹϺ Davis en Tell Me Something Good … About Salmon /climate/news/tell-me-something-good-about-salmon <p><em><span>For every bad thing happening in the world, there are good people trying to make things right. Sometimes they even win. That’s why I’m starting a new series on this blog called “</span></em><span>Tell Me Something Good.”</span><em><span>&nbsp;</span></em></p><p><em><span>I’m opening it up with Carson Jeffres, a 51ԹϺ Davis </span></em><a href="https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/"><em><span>Center for Watershed Sciences</span></em></a><em><span> researcher who helped inspire the idea, simply by telling me something good. I needed to hear it. Maybe you do, too.</span></em></p> January 29, 2026 - 1:22pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/tell-me-something-good-about-salmon Nigiri Project Mixes Salmon and Rice Fields for Fifth Year on Floodplain /news/nigiri-project-mixes-salmon-and-rice-fields-fifth-year-floodplain <p>Experiment shows how floodplains can benefit both farms and fish. Farmland can act as&nbsp;surrogate wetlands&nbsp;for salmon and&nbsp;be managed to mimic the Sacramento River's natural annual flooding cycle. This year, the project will compare food web productivity and fish growth in three kinds of river habitat.&nbsp;</p> February 23, 2016 - 3:13pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/nigiri-project-mixes-salmon-and-rice-fields-fifth-year-floodplain