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 to perform work relative to the hatchery-origin fish being reared at the UCD lab which was going well and on schedule. The purpose of adding lab-reared fish to the project will be to evaluate certain aspects of the draft management practice, including movement of fish thought the rice checks and overall in-field survivability. This is done by inserting Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags in these fish to monitor their movement as well as seining the fields to quantify tagged and marked fish.