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Interesting Read: Are Central Valley Steelhead “threatened?”

December 10, 2013 By JD 4 Comments

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I’m not sure I am ready to give up protecting Central Valley steelhead, but Dr. Peter Moyle of UC Davis makes some interesting observations about steelies in the Sac system.

Are Central Valley Steelhead really threatened?

By Peter Moyle
The primary goal of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) is to shorten the government’s list of “endangered” and “threatened” species. The American Peregrine falcon, the brown pelican, the eastern Steller sea lion and California populations of the gray whale are among the iconic creatures that have recovered to large populations and have been “delisted,” thanks to the strong conservation measures afforded under the 40-year-old law.

But there is another, less congratulatory way species have made it off the lists: new and better information becomes available showing a species is no longer or never was in danger of extinction.

Though better known for saving species, the ESA also has had the salutary effect of encouraging continuous scientific monitoring and studies of listed species to confirm or update their status. A good example is the Sacramento splittail. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the native California fish as threatened in 1999, but delisted the species in 2003 because new information showed it was more abundant and resilient than once thought.

Central Valley steelhead could be delisted for similar reasons.

Read the rest of the article HERE

Filed Under: uncategorized Tagged With: american river, central valley, dr peter moyle, feather river, Steelhead, yuba river

NOAA Fisheries: “Change CA water pumping ops”

June 10, 2009 By JD 5 Comments

nimbus-damWell, the Feds finally understand what we’ve all been saying for a looong time: The way the Northern California’s water is managed is a bad deal for fish like salmon, steelhead, sturgeon…and even, as it turns out, southern killer whales.

Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its final biological opinion that finds (surprise, surprise!) the water pumping operations in the Central Valley by the federal Bureau of Reclamation jeopardize the continued existence of several threatened and endangered species under the jurisdiction of NOAA’s Fisheries Service.

Federal biologists and hydrologists concluded that current water pumping operations in the Federal Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project should be changed to ensure survival of winter and spring-run Chinook salmon, Central Valley steelhead, the southern population of North American green sturgeon and Southern Resident killer whales, which rely on Chinook salmon runs for food.Click here to read more…

Filed Under: uncategorized Tagged With: california chinook salmon collapse, central valley, chinook salmon, king salmon, noaa, sacramento river, Steelhead, Sturgeon

What killed the kings?

April 3, 2009 By JD Leave a Comment

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A federal report released in March has outlined what caused the collapse of the Sacramento River Fall Chinook salmon stocks. In a nutshell, it’s pretty much everything I said in back in an article I wrote in 2008 (to see it click HERE).

Here are some interesting tidbits I found in the report:

•”A broad body of evidence suggests that anomalous conditions in the coastal ocean in 2005 and 2006 resulted in unusually poor survival of the 2004 and 2005 broods of Sacramento River Fall Chinook (SRFC). Both broods entered the ocean during periods of weak upwelling, warm sea surface temperatures, and low densities of prey items. Pelagic seabirds in this region with diets similar to juvenile Chinook salmon also experienced very poor reproduction in these
years.” Click here to read more…

Filed Under: uncategorized Tagged With: california chinook salmon collapse, central valley, report, sacramento river

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