ESU STATUS AND DESCRIPTION: Listed as endangered on January 4, 1994; endangered status reaffirmed on June 28, 2005. The ESU includes all naturally spawned populations of winter-run Chinook salmon in the Sacramento River and its tributaries in California, as well as two artificial propagation programs: winter-run Chinook from the Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery (NFH), and winter run Chinook in a captive broodstock program maintained at Livingston Stone NFH and the University of California Bodega Marine Laboratory. CRITICAL HABITAT STATUS: A final designation was published on June 16, 1993.
PROTECTIVE REGULATIONS: The take prohibitions of section 9 of the Endangered Species Act that apply to this ESU were published on June 28, 2005.
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