February 2023

The bypass flood­wa­ters reced­ed enough to enable the project field to be safe­ly accessed and the inten­sive data col­lec­tion and man­age­ment prac­tice imple­men­ta­tion offi­cial­ly began.  UCD sci­ence team work includ­ed sein­ing, begin­ning phas­es of PIT sys­tem instal­la­tion in the field, and instal­la­tion of a large fyke net sys­tem at the out­fall drain of the field

The flood­ing lev­els of the fields was begin­ning to sub­side and expect­ed to become acces­si­ble for work by the mid­dle of fol­low­ing week as the bypass con­tin­ues to slow­ly drain.  The UCD Team was able to begin some ini­tial sein­ing activ­i­ty by the end of this week. The Team also deployed lab-reared fish into cages

No sig­nif­i­cant change in field con­di­tions from the pre­vi­ous week in that the Sut­ter Bypass remained inun­dat­ed with flood­wa­ters.  The UCD team remained ready to begin sam­pling for recruit­ment of nat­ur­al occur­ring fish­es (wild or hatch­­ery-ori­­gin) just as soon as they could regain access.  The Team con­tin­ued work with the two groups of hatch­­ery-ori­­gin fish

The Sut­ter Bypass remained inun­dat­ed with flood­wa­ters and is still inac­ces­si­ble to safe­ly work.  The UC Davis research team remained ready to begin sam­pling for recruit­ment of nat­ur­al occur­ring fish­es (wild or hatch­­ery-ori­­gin) and mon­i­tor­ing water qual­i­ty con­sis­tent State and Fed­er­al agree­ments to oper­ate the project.   The UCD Team used this peri­od of time

After sev­er­al years of imple­ment­ing this project in drought, the Sut­ter Bypass was cur­rent­ly inun­dat­ed with flood­wa­ters in late-Decem­ber 2022 into ear­­ly-Jan­u­ary 2022.  The UC Davis (UCD) sci­ence team was ful­ly pre­pared to begin sam­pling for recruit­ment of nat­ur­al occur­ring fish­es (wild or hatch­­ery-ori­­gin) and mon­i­tor­ing water qual­i­ty con­sis­tent State and Fed­er­al agree­ments to oper­ate