Fish Bulletin 180. California Coastal Salmonid Population Monitoring: Strategy, Design, and Methods

Author(s): Adams, Peter B; Boydstun, L B; Gallagher, Sean P; Lacy, Michael K; McDonald, Trent; Schaffer, Kevin E | Abstract: California’s salmon and steelhead populations have experienced marked declines leading to listing of almost all of California’s anadromous salmonids under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA) and Federal Endan-gered Species Act (ESA). Both CESA and ESA listings require recovery plans that call for monitoring to provide some measure of progress toward recovery. In addition, there are related monitoring needs for other management activi-ties such as hatchery operations and fisheries management.