Central Valley spring-run Chinook Salmon are protected under both the state and federal Endangered Species Act, but measures to protect and recover spring-run are challenged by difficulties such as tracking status and life stages across multiple streams and agency programs, or understanding the feasibility of reintroduction above dams. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California Department of Water Resources, NOAA Fisheries, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Reclamation, plus agency partners, are collaborating on multiple fronts to improve our ability to protect and recover Central Valley spring-run. These efforts include expanded monitoring and special studies, new genetics tools, a coordinated data management system among more than 20 data stewards and across multiple state and federal agencies, a cloud-based data entry platform that ensures rapidly-reported cross-compatible data from over 40 individual sources, multiple models to track juvenile production, survival, pathogen impacts, and abundance across life stage and locations, publicly accessible databases and model code, and a pilot reintroduction study in the Feather River above Oroville Dam. This session describes seven examples of these efforts.

The Road to Data-Driven Water Management: Re-Envisioning the Data Lifecycle to Support a Spring-Run Juvenile Production Estimate, Ashley Vizek, FlowWest & Brett Harvey, CA Department of Water Resources

 

Rapid Genetic Identification of Central Valley Spring-Run Chinook Salmon, Sean Canfield, CA Department of Water Resources

 

Forecasting the Timing and Abundance of Juvenile Spring-Run Chinook Salmon Outmigrants from Sacramento River Tributaries to Support a Juvenile Production Estimate, Josh Korman, Ecometric Research

 

Uncovering Genetic and Life History Resilience in Spring-run Chinook Salmon, Flora Cordoleani, UC Santa Cruz Institute of Marine Sciences & NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center

 

Movement and Survival of Acoustic Tagged Hatchery Spring-Run Chinook Salmon from the Feather River, Arnold Ammann, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center

 

Developing an Improved Understanding of Pathogen Impacts for Feather River Spring-Run Chinook Salmon, Miles Daniels, UC Santa Cruz Institute of Marine Sciences & NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center

 

Spring-Run Chinook Salmon Reintroduction Pilot Study in the North Fork Feather River Upstream of Oroville Dam, Michelle Pepping, CA Department of Water Resources