Last week of Intensive Field Season Updates This week represented “Finals Week” for the UC Davis crew that has worked tirelessly throughout this crazy, but productive, field season. They have managed through not just one but two separate bypass flooding events and they were still going strong as they managed through this final week comprised[…]
Breaking News: Sudden Change of Daily Activities This week started out fairly hectic as we learned on Tuesday, March 8 that the Sutter Bypass was expected the run again starting late-Friday night, March 10. Beginning March 8, this initiated a flurry of activity to prioritize field draining and removal of caged fish to relocate them to the[…]
Updated Catch Numbers To date, we had captured over 372 fish via trap net and seining. Based on size chart assessments, these included 69 wild fall-run sized, 1 late-full-run-sized, 8 winter-run-sized, and 7 spring-run-sized Chinook salmon. We still had found/experienced 0 mortality of any non-fall-run wild Chinook salmon. Overall mortality has been low. About 3.5%[…]
So far, we had captured 363 fish via trap net and seining. Based on size chart assessments, these include 63 wild fall-run sized, 1 late-full-run-sized, 9 winter-run-sized, and 5 spring-run-sized Chinook salmon. We found/experienced 0 mortality of any non-fall-run wild Chinook salmon. Mortality was low. About 3.3% (12/363) mortality of all fish encountered by this[…]
After having introduced the 4,500 Fall run (all PIT tagged) and 100 Late-Fall yearlings (all PIT and JSATS tagged) into the fields the previous week, emphasis has turned to utilizing the network of seven PIT readers at the rice boxes to collect data on fish movements within the field and out the field drain. All[…]