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June 29, 2012
The paper "Electronic Tagging of Green Sturgeon Reveals Population Structure and Movement among Estuaries" was selected as the best publication for 2011 in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.
February 8, 2010
Fisheries Ecology Division researchers played a significant role in the Klamath Basin Science Conference held in Medford, Oregon in February.
February 8, 2010
Science Magazine reported on the plight of the endangered central California coast coho salmon and the increasing probability of extinction due to three consecutive years of exceedingly low returns.
February 1, 2010
Fisheries Ecology Division researchers attended the first meeting of a National Research Council panel studying sustainable water management in the California Bay-Delta.
November 9, 2009
Fisheries Ecology Division scientists convened a workgroup meeting to evaluate alternative marking and tagging programs for hatchery produced California fall Chinook salmon.
August 24, 2009
Fisheries Ecology Division researchers presented a high-resolution river temperature model and web-based user interface to the Sacramento River Temperature Task Group.
June 2, 2009
Fisheries Ecology Division researchers met with Federal and State agencies and Klamath River stakeholders regarding the removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River.
March 18, 2009
A multi-agency scientific review panel lead by SWFSC and NWFSC scientists released a report that outlines potential causes for the recent severe decline of Sacramento River fall Chinook salmon.
February 9, 2009
Eric Danner (Fisheries Ecology Division) demonstrated the preliminary web interface for the NASA/NOAA project “Improving Stream Temperature Predictions for River Water Decision Support Systems”.
August 4, 2008
The Fisheries Ecology Division hosted the organizational meeting of a working group to consider possible causes of decline in Sacramento River salmon.
November 4, 2008
Fisheries Ecology Division researchers have published a paper demonstrating that steelhead and rainbow trout above major dams in five Southern California river systems are descended from coastal steelhead lineage fish trapped above the dams at construction.
October 14, 2008
Fisheries Ecology Division coho salmon snorkel surveys indicate the species is nearing extinction in the southern portion of its range.
January 11, 2008
Fisheries Ecology Division scientist Steve Lindley and colleagues have published a paper describing extensive migrations of green sturgeon through the coastal waters between California and southeast Alaska.
November 5, 2007
Coho salmon surveys conducted in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties suggest close to total failure for this year class in the southern part of the endangered Central California Coast Coho Salmon Evolutionarily Significant Unit.
October 29, 2007
An article in Fisheries (September 2007) establishes the southern range limit of coho salmon at Santa Cruz County, a finding relevant to both Federal and state ESA lawsuits.
October 25, 2007
The Fisheries Ecology Division completed a collaborative survey of green sturgeon abundance in the Rogue River, Oregon, using sonar verified by traditional capture-mark-recapture methods.
March 12, 2007
The Sacramento River salmonid acoustic tagging project yielded over 300,000 detections in January and February of 2007.
November 6, 2006
Steve Lindley received processed archival data from Microwave Telemetry for 8 pop-off archival tags deployed on green sturgeon in 2004-2005.
August 31, 2006
Carlos Garza and Thomas Williams provided testimony for an Energy Policy Act hearing on relicensing of PacifiCorp’s Klamath River dams.
July 3, 2006
Churchill Grimes and Steve Lindley participated in a proposal-planning workshop for the Canadian-led Ocean Tracking Network, which would establish lines of acoustic tag detectors on the continental shelves of the word's oceans.