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Hi all,

A report about this year's tagging is here:

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentId=146153

Nothing earth-shattering, lots of striped bass, few salmonids, no sturgeon (a...

This. Mike is an extremely good and generous man. Persistent, civil, and wise in pursuit of fishing interests. Back in 2005 he introduced me to on-line fishing forums as a way to inform discussion...

We know from doing the annual mark-recapture study for nearly 50 years that anglers have harvested about 10-25 percent of the legal population each year, and since 1998 annual harvest rate has...

Hi all,

After taking last year off due (basically) to the drought, we tagged striped bass this year. A draft report about this year's tagging is here:
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Hello all,

Having been working hard on white sturgeon data and analyses the last year or so, we are shifting some back to striped bass. Here are plots of some interesting data that we've never...

Your interest in BDCP is excellent and a wise focus!



Please don't give up. I was in high school when the PC and 'negative flows' were first in the news. The notion of rivers flowing...

From what I've seen, "The pumps are the predators" is marketing. It's a simple and catchy rallying cry. People like Mike --- and certainly all the agencies --- know that entrainment into the...

Hi all,

We quickly produce a report each year after tagging striped bass for the population study. The report is intended only to let folks know what we did and saw, so doesn't include anything...

Here are the agendized presentations made during the workshop and the Panel's initial response:

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/erp/predation_presentations.asp

My pleasure for sure.



Here is another figure about the partyboat fishery:

ftp://ftp.delta.dfg.ca.gov/Adult_Sturgeon_and_Striped_Bass/2012%20Striped%20Bass%20CPFV%20Effort.pdf

CPUE is one...

Hi all,

Here are a couple of links that might be interesting to you:

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentId=34815

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentId=68240
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My pleasure. I'm happy to ave more people interested and aware of what we do and why we do it.




Not this season. It's actually a pretty big job to quantify stomach contents in a way that...

We produce the report (and one like it for sturgeon tagging) to sort of 'close the loop' with stakeholders who know we tag fish and wonder what we saw. What's in the report is descriptive rather...

Where and when we catch these fish, and how we catch them, means that we can (and do) accurately sex them by palpating their abdomens and seeing whether or not milt is expressed. A comprehensive...

Hello all,

This is a link to a complete draft report on the 2012 adult striped bass tagging field season:

http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=48061

The report is not an...

Hi all,

The salvage process is designed for little fish and the vast preponderance of salvaged fish are little (e.g., 1-3 inches long).

Entrainment is not good for fish but salvage is a good...

The first 4 columns of page 1 at the following link show a summary of what I understand to be the full extent of 'modern era' stocking of striped bass into the anadromous waters of California. I'd...

It's good to understand the Section 10 process and details, though it's ancient history now and has not been in effect for many years. We've scanned the Conservation Plan and posted it in several...

The field 'Total Annual Stocking' here shows the numbers of fish stocked by year:

ftp://ftp.delta.dfg.ca.gov/Adult_Sturgeon_and_Striped_Bass/Striped%20bass%20statistics%20California%202008.pdf
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We have not yet tried hard (we will) to figure this out, but we've ruled out 'funky or sparse data' as a cause. 1986 and 1995 were wet years following 1 or more dry years, but 2006 was a wet year...

DFG hasn't yet produced mark-recapture estimates of striped bass abundance for the year 2011.

Trend-wise, catch per unit effort (CPUE) data from Party Boats (CPFVs) gives us an index of striped...

It's been a long time since I saw hardcopy of a new-ish Fish Bulletin, but I suspect they are available.

You can download a PDF of each Fish Bulletin rather than read them on-line. Here is a...

The Fish Bulletin at the link below is a very good source of information about fishes introduced into California and it includes a good write-up on striped bass:
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Potential litigation, litigation tactics, and litigation strategy are things that staff like me don't comment on because those are policy matters and because we aren't attorneys.

When managing...

http://www.pajarowatershed.org/archive/uploads/Flood%20Protection/2%20Project%20Alternatives/Environmental%20Reports/Biotic%20Species/Fisheries/1993%20Fisheries%20SCCOUNTY%20Lagoon%20Breaching.pdf
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