North Bay watersheds salmonid monitoring program: a standard for the central coast

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North Bay watersheds salmonid monitoring program
a standard for the central coast
Gordon Becker, Senior Scientist Center for
Ecosystem Management and Restoration (CEMAR)
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Critical concepts

• Fundablescientifically sound, fiscally minimalist

• Collaborativestakeholder based, regionally
  compatible

• Functionalinforms management and advances
  restoration

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Basic assumptions

• Watersheds/streams

• Species/life stages monitored

• Monitoring methods

• Staffing

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Monitoring program watersheds
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Focusing restoration attention San Francisco Bay
Area
Eight anchor watersheds ? 75 percent of
regional habitat
18 essential streams ? 75 percent of anchor
habitat
gt 50 percent total regional habitat in 18 streams
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Species of concern
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Juvenile O. mykiss
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Steelhead smolt
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Where do our spawners originate?
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Corte Madera monitoring site
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Corte Madera Creek site
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Resistance board schematic
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Resistance board weir (side view)
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Sonoma Creek monitoring site
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Napa River monitoring sites
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u/s from Napa R. screw trap site
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typ. Napa R. site (Redwood Ck.)
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Program essentials TBD

• Monitoring leadwhos on the permit?

• Information managementwhat organization will
  have/use the data?

• Scope of programadditional element informing
  population life history strategy?

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North Bay watersheds salmonid monitoring program
a standard for the central coast
Gordon Becker, Senior Scientist Center for
Ecosystem Management and Restoration (CEMAR)