North Central California Coast
We
Request Your Help:
To All Interested Parties:
NMFS' Santa Rosa field office is developing draft recovery plans for federally threatened
or endangered Central California Coast (CCC) coho salmon, Northern California (NC)
steelhead, CCC steelhead, and California Coastal (CC) Chinook salmon. We, thus,
respectfully request information, data and pertinent publications from the public to
inform our planning and the development of sound adaptable recovery strategies and actions
that are both objective and measurable. Data and information we are seeking includes
(1) species status, (2) distribution, (3) habitat conditions, (4) trends, (5) future
threats, and/or (6) other information relevant to identification/reduction of factors
limiting recovery of salmonids. The specific types of freshwater/estuarine
information includes, but is not limited to:
- Summer and winter habitat typing,
- Stream temperature,
- Flow conditions (all life stages),
- Barriers to passage (all life stages),
- Estuarine conditions,
- Instream impairment by substrate and/or fines,
- Water quality,
- Food supply,
- Riparian structure and composition,
- Ecological processes across watersheds, and
- Abundance/distribution/density information for spawners, juveniles
and smolts.
Current instream conditions will be evaluated for all life stages
independently as well as in context with the source of the stress (e.g., harvest,
hatcheries, land/water use, urbanization, etc.). Information on factors affecting
these species, planning and actions being done to ameliorate these threats and policies in
place to ensure long term maintenance of instream habitats is additionally being
requested. This information will greatly inform our assessment and acknowledgment of
conservation efforts taking place across the North Coast through watershed planning and
implementation activities by various watershed groups, State/Federal/County/City agencies
(e.g., laws, policies, programs, etc.), private individuals/companies and others.
Information regarding natural events on salmonids and their habitats (e.g., climate
change) is also being sought from academics, scientists and other knowledgeable
individuals.
We are soliciting data for CCC coho salmon first (watersheds from Punta Gorda to Aptos
Creek including SF Bay). Requests for NC steelhead, CCC steelhead and CC Chinook
will follow but we will accept any information provided at this time.
NMFS is using The Nature Conservancy's (TNC's) conservation action planning (CAP workbook)
process as the foundation to the recovery plans for these species. You can learn
more about the TNC approach at their website: http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/cbdgateway/cap.
TNC's CAP workbook provides a consistent, transparent, and measurable approach for
assessing current watershed habitat conditions, assessing future threats (both habitat
stresses and sources of the stress) and developing strategies (e.g., recovery actions)
that link back to poor conditions and the highest threats. To inform the CAP process
we are compiling the best available information for all watersheds for the species listed
above beginning with the CCC coho salmon watersheds. Attached is a list of
references currently available to NMFS that we plan to use to initiate our CAP workbook
for the CCC coho salmon recovery planning effort.
For more information on the list of current priority watersheds and the format of how the
freshwater habitat information will be input into the TNC CAP workbook template please
visit the NMFS recovery planning website at http://swr.nmfs.noaa.gov/recovery/NCCC.htm.
This is an preliminary request for instream habitat data and population information and
will not be your only opportunity to provide information and comments. Public review
and comments on the draft recovery plans will also be solicited in future workshops and
published in Federal Register Notices. While we will accept information at any time
during development of recovery plans; however, for consideration in our first development
phase for CCC coho salmon we will need your information before November 2, 2007.
Materials received after that date will be considered at a later date.
While all formats of data will be accepted, we prefer electronic format on CDs mailed to
the address below. If data are in a zipped drive or requiring minimum space an email
is acceptable and should be sent to the following address:
_CentralCoastCoho.RecoveryPlan@noaa.gov (please note the underscore at the beginning and
period between Coho.Recovery or the email will not work). Metadata, where
available, would be greatly appreciated as it would streamline incorporation of data
directly into the recovery plan. We will accept data in all forms (e.g., GIS format,
excel spreadsheets, PDF or word documents).
National Marine Fisheries Service
c/o NCCC Domain Recovery Planning
777 Sonoma Avenue, Rm. 325
Santa Rosa, California 95404.
Thank you in advance for your assistance. If you have any questions please contact
the Santa Rosa NMFS Recovery Coordinator, Charlotte Ambrose, at 707-575-6068.
Please forward this email to other knowledgeable or interested individuals who may be able
to contribute to this recovery planning effort.
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Central Valley, CA
In July and August of 2006, a
series of public workshops were held in various locations in the Central
Valley. The purpose of these workshops was to explain the recovery
planning process to the public, introduce several TRT documents that
provide the foundation for developing the recovery plan, and to
brainstorm threats information on listed Central Valley salmonids, which
served as a starting point for conducting a threats assessment (a
required piece of a recovery plan). NMFS then worked with a contractor
to utilize a threats assessment methodology developed as part of the
Yuba River Accord, to weight, rank and prioritize threats.
In May of 2007, a second series of pubic workshops was held to initiate
development of recovery actions that address and are responsive to the
threats information and reflect the guiding principles from the TRT
products. The output from these workshops, as well as the threats
workshops and the TRT products, contributed greatly to advancing the
development of a draft recovery plan.
In May of 2008, a co-manager
draft recovery plan was distributed to Federal, State and tribal
entities involved with management of listed anadromous salmonids in the
Central Valley. NMFS is currently revising the recovery plan in
response to many constructive and informative comments received from
co-managers. Following completion of these revisions, a draft recovery
plan will be made available for public comment. This public draft
recovery plan is expected to be released in the summer of 2009.
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South-Central/Southern CA
Two series of workshops were held in
early 2007 to gather public input on the threats facing steelhead populations throughout
the recovery domain and suggested actions needed to ameliorate or abate the identified
threats. Each workshop focused on the threats and actions specific to the watershed
and populations in areas surrounding the workshop location. The TRT/Threats
Assessment Workshops were held on April 4-5-2007 in Ventura, April 12-13-2007 in Carlsbad,
April 18-19 in Arroyo Grande, and April 25-26-2007 in Carmel. In late spring 2007,
the second series of workshops focused on the development of Recovery Actions. These
workshops occurred on: May 31, in Ventura, June 1 in Carlsbad, June 4 in San Luis Obispo,
and June 13 in Carmel. For copies of the notes from these workshops, please contact penny.ruvelas@noaa.gov.
There will be a set of public hearings on draft Recovery Plans which are
expected to occur in the summer-fall 2009. The timing and locations are
currently under development, but will be posted here and otherwise
advertised once finalized. Currently, threats assessment and sets of
corresponding recovery actions have been prepared. Both the threats
assessment and the recovery actions were developed using information
provided during a series of public workshops as well as other available
information developed by NMFS biological consultants and NMFS Southwest
Regional staff. Summaries of the threat assessments can be viewed on
this web page. Following internal review, the draft Recovery Plans will
be reviewed by our steelhead co-manager agencies as well as an
independent panel of scientific experts and the public. A public draft
Recovery Plan for Southern California steelhead is expected in summer of
2009. A public draft Recovery Plan for South-Central California Coast
steelhead is expected in fall 2009.
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