SWFSC Fisheries Ecology Division (FED) researchers played a
significant role in the Klamath Basin Science Conference held in Medford,
Oregon in February. The conference comes at a key moment when preparation for a
Secretarial Determination on the fates of four dams on the Klamath River is
underway, re-establishing access for anadromous fish to habitat blocked for
over 100 years. FED staff are central to the efforts informing the Secretarial
Determination, including the Economics Team preparing cost/benefit analyses and
the Landscape Ecology Team developing biological models of changes in fish
populations to inform economic analysis.
Fisheries Ecology Division staff
served as conference organizers and gave talks including:
- Fishes and aquatic communities of the Lower
Klamath River and its tributaries
- Population genetics of Klamath Basin
Oncorhynchus mykiss
- Klamath River steam temperature modeling and use
of thermal refugia by salmonids
- Klamath River thermal refugia as critical
habitat for threatened juvenile salmonids
- The salmon monitoring advisor: a hierarchical
web site to help design and implement salmon monitoring programs
- Use of dual frequency identification sonar
(DIDSON) to estimate low abundance salmonid escapement in California watersheds
- Effects of Myxozoa disease on population
dynamics of Klamath fall Chinook salmon
- Conceptual design and approach for modeling
fall-run Chinook production post dam removal
- Monitoring fishery effects of salmonid habitat
restoration
(February 8, 2010)