Fish Restoration Program Monitoring

Science activity #50193, updated 29 April 2022

Fish Restoration Program Monitoring

Description / purpose

The Fish Restoration Program (FRP), an inter-agency agreement between the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), will restore at least 8,000 acres of tidal wetlands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) and Suisun Marsh pursuant to requirements in federal Biological Opinions and the California Incidental Take Permit for operation of the State Water Project and Central Valley Project. The rationale for restoration is that state or federally listed fish species, Delta Smelt Hypomesus transpacificus, spring-run and winter-run Central Valley Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, and Longfin Smelt Spirinchus thaleichthys will benefit from increased availability of habitat and food web resources. The CDFW FRP Monitoring Team is responsible for monitoring the biological effectiveness of individual FRP tidal wetland restoration projects. Fish catch, invertebrate catch, and water quality data have been collected as baseline monitoring data and to determine the most efficient methods for monitoring wetland restoration efforts.

Linked science activities

None specified

Collaborators

Stacy Sherman, Primary contact, Principal investigator - California Department of Fish and Wildlife [CDFW]

Activity status

1 Awarded / Initiating (1956)
2 In progress / Ongoing (1956 - 2019)
3 Complete

Funding summary

Total allocated funding: $0

Location

Subbasins

Delta regions

Geographic tags

NORTH STOCKTON , WALNUT GROVE , BETHEL ISLAND , WEST SACRAMENTO , LIBERTY ISLAND , DLIS 43,45 [Potrero Hills Area] , MAINTENANCE AREA 9 NORTH , DLIS-01 [PITTSBURG AREA] , EMPIRE TRACT , DLIS-06 [OAKLEY AREA] , GLANVILLE , DLIS-09 [BYRON AREA]

Products and outputs

Title	Description	Views
Fish Restoration Program Tidal Wetland Monitoring	Webpage for the Fish Restoration Program Tidal Wet	14
Fish catch, invertebrate catch, and water quality data from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta collected by the Fish Restoration Monitoring Program, 2015-2017.	Data from the project on EDI	5
Sherman, S., R. Hartman, and D. Contreras, editors. 2017. Effects of Tidal Wetland Restoration on Fish: A Suite of Conceptual Models. IEP Technical Report 91. Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, California.	Conceptual models for tidal wetland monitoring	0

Type and context

Science action area

Unspecified

Management themes

Habitat management

Science themes

Environmental conditions , Habitat changes , Species

Types

None specified

Science functions

None specified

Management actions

Habitat protection / enhancement / restoration

Science Topics

Nitrogen / ammonia , Phosphorous , Carbon , Chlorophyll A / B , Phytoplankton , Other zooplankton , Salinity , Water temperature , Dissolved oxygen , pH , Turbidity , Submerged aquatic vegetation , Chinook Salmon , Steelhead Trout , Green sturgeon , White Sturgeon , Delta Smelt , Longfin Smelt , Sacramento Splittail , Insects , Mollusks , Crustaceans , Invertebrates

Lead implementing organization

California Department of Fish and Wildlife [CDFW]

Partner implementing organizations

California Department of Water Resource [DWR]

Funding organizations

None specified

Funding programs

None specified

Funding sources

None specified