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- A few California hatcheries work to conserve and recover salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act, using methods such as captive propagation and production of fish that may be used for planned reintroduction efforts.
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California Monitoring Plan (CMP) The California (Coastal) Monitoring Plan is designed to inform salmon and steelhead recovery, conservation, and management activities. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife and NOAA Fisheries are leading the implementation of this Plan in watersheds from California’s border with Mexico north to the ...
Aug 13, 2020 · Endangered Species Conservation Salmon and Steelhead Hatcheries on the West Coast. Hatcheries, or artificial propagation, are one tool to help support wild populations and provide fish for harvest.
A few California hatcheries work to conserve and recover salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act, using methods such as captive propagation and production of fish that may be used for planned reintroduction efforts.
Thankfully, beginning to address those problems does not require shutting down salmon and steelhead hatcheries. In fact, a variety of management actions are readily available that would allow hatcheries to continue producing salmon for harvest, while reducing impacts to wild fish.
Assistance in the form of supplementing wild abundance via conservation hatchery releases can help buy time until ecological processes are restored to the point where habitat can support self-sustaining runs once again.
The hatchery review process had two goals: 1) to help recover and conserve naturally spawning salmon and steelhead populations; and 2) to support sustainable fisheries with little or no deleterious consequences to natural populations (HSRG 2012).
The basic objectives of the CDFW trout and salmon hatcheries are conservation, mitigation, and recreation. The CDFW operates 13 trout and inland salmon hatcheries and 9 anadromous salmon and steelhead hatcheries. These facilities operate in the remote redwood forests of the north to the deserts of the south.
