Im writing a research paper on salmon decline.

[TaylerW]

im going to post it later on today, any pointers and other sources would be great.

[Darian]

Is the paper for class project or some other endeavor :?: :?: Have you been working on it for some time :?: :?: Sorry I don't have much to offer but there's certainly a bunch of info out there on this subject. 8) Much of it speculative or contradictory :? :? Looking forward to reading it. 8) 8) 8)

[TaylerW]

its for my english class and me and my partner chose the topic of wildlife management...

[Darian]

Hmmm,.... If the subject is "Wildlife Management", is a research paper on decline of Salmon appropriate for the subject :?: :?: I ask this only as I've seen that DFG characterizes the two areas of management as fish and wildlife. Wildlife being big game, upland game, game birds, etc.; not fish....

Something to think about.... :) :) :)

[Kevin Goding]

If you can find stuff by Peter Moyle, probably has a lot of useful information, he and another person are basically the local experts on CA salmonids.

[Mike McKenzie]

It's good to see the younger folks gettin' interested and involved!!

Here's a web site has tons of fisheries info on it. Most is pretty technical but if you dig through it you'll find lots of "nuggets"..

http://www.delta.dfg.ca.gov/jfmp/datareports.asp

Here are a couple of reports dealing with Salmon smolt survival through the delta....

http://www.delta.dfg.ca.gov/jfmp/docs/FB_179V2_Brandes_and_McLain.pdf

http://www.delta.dfg.ca.gov/jfmp/docs/PSP_CalFed_FWS_salmon_studies_final_033108.pdf

Now go to work! :)

Mike

[TaylerW]

Thanks mike,
im definatey going to use a bunch of that info for my paper.