Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Washington
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Washington Project


Survival and Distribution of Juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Migrating Through the Sacramento � San Joaquin River Delta, California

May 2009 - June 2010


Personnel

Participating Agencies

  • USFWS Region 1

1) Develop a release-recapture model to estimate movement and route-specific survival rates of juvenile salmon migrating through the Delta. 2) Apply the model to data collected during 2008 and 2009 to estimate movement and survival rates.