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2019-20 Fieldwork Synopsis
During the 2019-20 winter flooding season, the California Rice Commission’s Pilot Salmon Project acquired approximately 12,000 baby salmon from the Coleman National Fish Hatchery with the objective of testing out four different rice field management practices for their potential to maximize salmon rearing habitat and then releasing these fish into the Sacramento River, including approximately…
Read More2019-20 Project Fields and Special Modifications
Release of the Rice Field-reared Salmon into the Sacramento River
Event Date: March 20, 2020 Purpose: Celebratory release of the rice field-reared salmon into the Sacramento River.
Read MoreTagging Caged Fish Prior to their Release
Event Date: March 16-17, 2020 Purpose: To gather all the fish that were grown out in the rice fields within protective cages that were of taggable size and surgically insert the Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry (JSAT) tags into each one of them.
Read MoreDraining Field Plots and Collection of Salmon
Event Date: March 5, 2020 Purpose: Drainage of one of the salmon project field plots during nightfall, monitoring their exit through the water control structures and collecting the fish for later release into the Sacramento River.
Read MoreCapture, Monitoring, and PIT Tagging
Event Date: February 25, 2020Purpose: To monitor, tag and assess the growth of the salmon in the rice fields.
Read MoreVisitors to the Project
Event Dates: Various Dates between Feb 25, 2019 and Mar 17, 2020 Purpose: Various site visits to learn about the project by radio and print media professionals as well and a few representatives from our group of valued major donors.
Read MoreAerial Imagery of Flooded Fish Habitat
Event Date: Mid-February 2020 Purpose: Maintenance of flooded fish habitat and related scientific work (all shot from a drone).
Read MoreIntroduction of Telemetry Fish into Cages
Event Date: February 5, 2020 Purpose: Efforts on this day were largely to place about 1,000 salmon into the protective cages to enable them to safely grow to a minimum size thus allowing them to be fitted with a “telemetry tag” which is surgically inserted into each fish prior to their release into the Sacramento…
Read MoreRiver Garden Farms Field Preparation
Event Date: November 18, 2019 Purpose: Evaluating the status of field work on projects fields out at River Garden Farms.
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