Aerial Imagery of Flooded Fish Habitat – Rice Helping Salmon in the Sacramento Valley

Event Date: Mid-February 2020

Purpose: Maintenance of flooded fish habitat and related scientific work (all shot from a drone).

UC Davis team working to maintain a berm between two field plots.

Comprehensive video montage of the flooded salmon habitat and many of the types of scientific work by the UC Davis team to maintain fields and monitor fish activity and growth.

UC Davis team checking on the caged fish and maintaining the drainage control structures.

The entire project where some 9,000 baby salmon were growing within a variety of field treatments — Beautiful aerial picture of the entire project where some 9,000 baby salmon were growing within a variety of field treatments being evaluated by this rice field salmon-rearing study.

The northernmost end of the project and the UC Davis team working to maintain a berm between two field plots.