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North-Central California Coast Domain
Regional Office Contact:Charlotte Ambrose Recovery Coordinator
National Marine Fisheries Service 777 Sonoma Avenue, Suite 325 Santa Rosa, CA 97404 PHONE: (707) 575-6068
Map of Area:Click on image for a detailed pdf. version.
For an interactive map CalFish.org |
Description:
The North-Central California Coast Recovery (NCCC) Domain extends from the Redwood Creek watershed in Humboldt County south to Aptos Creek, and includes the tributaries of the San Francisco Bay (excluding the Sacramento-San Joaquin River basins). Four threatened or endangered salmonid species are included in the NCCC Domain: threatened Northern California Coast steelhead, threatened California Coastal Chinook salmon, endangered Central California Coast coho salmon, and threatened Central California Coast steelhead.
Threats to Domain Species: Northern California and Central Coast steelhead are the most widely distributed species in the NCCC Domain and spend the longest period rearing in freshwater habitats. Steelhead therefore, face a wide array of threats. California Coastal Chinook Salmon and the Central California Coast Coho Salmon are at the southernmost portion of the species’ North American range. As a result, the challenges these species face are more extreme than more northern salmon encounter, such as elevated stream temperatures and reduced stream flows. Threats to all of these species include loss and degradation of freshwater habitat, largely from land use activities such as road development, urban growth and agriculture, reductions in water quality and quantity, and artificial barriers. Recovery Planning Objectives: The overall recovery planning objective is to: develop and maintain a healthy ecosystem that rebuilds and supports naturally produced, abundant, productive, and diverse salmon and steelhead populations across their native ranges. Ultimately, recovery planning should provide the framework for recovery and delisting NCCC Domain salmon and steelhead populations. The ESA mandates “application of all methods and procedures which are necessary to provide for the conservation and survival of salmon and steelhead, to the extent that measures pursuant to the ESA will no longer be necessary”. Recovery Plans must explicitly identify all threats to a species and track, through objective measurable criteria, how each threat will be reduced or eliminated through site specific or regional recovery actions. The transparency of how a restoration/recovery action affects a population is critical and provides a mechanism to ensure funds and restoration are effectively targeting species needs.
Currently the NCCC Domain priority is to develop recovery plans in sequence (beginning with the endangered CCC coho salmon) with a final multi-species compilation to provide ease of implementation and use by watershed planners where multiple species exist. We Request Your Help: Click here to learn more about how you can be part of the recovery Process.
10/09/2008 |
Documents for Review and Comment:
Central California Coast coho salmon:
Draft Viability tableDraft Stress tableDraft Threats table
2005 Recovery Outline for CCC Coho Salmon
Technical Recovery TeamTechnical Memoranda
ESUs / DPSsNorthern California Coast Steelhead (Threatened);
Central Californian Steelhead (Threatened);
California Coast Chinook Salmon (Threatened);
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