Final Restoration Plan
Title 34 CVPIA
- anadromous fish
- artificial production
- artificial propagation
- Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture
- Central Valley Project
- Central Valley Project service area
- Central Valley Project water
- full cost
- Fund
- Natural Production
- project
- Reclamation laws
- Refuge Water Supply Report
- repayment contract
- Restoration Fund
- Secretary
- water service contract
Definitions
Salmon -
Salmon is a common name for at least six species of fish. Five species of salmon have been observed in the Sacramento River: chinook (O. tshawytscha), coho (O. kisutch), sockeye (O. nerka), pink (O. gorbuscha), and chum (O. keta) salmon (Moyle 1976, Fry 1973). Chinook salmon are common in the Sacramento-San Joaquin system, the other four species are rare. Based on observations of adults during 1949 through 1958, Hallock and Fry (1967) concluded that sockeye, pink, and chum salmon entered the Sacramento River regularly enough to be regarded as very small runs, but that coho salmon were so scarce and irregular that they should be regarded as strays. Juvenile coho salmon were planted in Mill Creek in 1956, 1957, and 1958, but by 1963 coho salmon were almost as scarce as they had been before the introductions (Hallock and Fry 1967). During the baseline period, there is no evidence that coho, sockeye, pink, or chum salmon maintained self-sustaining spawning runs in the Central Valley (Fisher pers. comm.). Because the definition of anadromous fish specifies "...salmon... that ascend the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers...to reproduce..." and because chinook salmon is the only salmon known to reproduce in the system on a regular basis during the baseline period, the use of the word salmon in the definition will be interpreted to mean chinook salmon.
Fry, D. H., Jr. 1973. Anadromous fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game. 111 pp.
Hallock, R. J., and D. H. Fry, Jr. 1967. Five species of salmon, Oncorhynchus, in the Sacramento River, California. California Fish and Game 53:5-22.
Moyle, P. B. 1976. Inland fishes of California. University of California Press. Berkeley, CA. 405 pp.
Source: Final Restoration Plan [ A-3 ]
Fry, D. H., Jr. 1973. Anadromous fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game. 111 pp.
Hallock, R. J., and D. H. Fry, Jr. 1967. Five species of salmon, Oncorhynchus, in the Sacramento River, California. California Fish and Game 53:5-22.
Moyle, P. B. 1976. Inland fishes of California. University of California Press. Berkeley, CA. 405 pp.
Source: Final Restoration Plan [ A-3 ]