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 being reared at the UCD lab. These were a small group of 200 late-fall run yearlings and a group of 15,000 fall-run raised from eggs. The late-fall yearling Chinook salmon were tagged with PIT and JSATS tags. Fall-run Chinook would be ready for deployment onto the rice fields by early-February.
