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STREAM OF DREAMSBUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME…
American River 2014 – 2017
FIELD OF DREAMS
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++1 billion annually (15 billion since 1990). A majority of funds go to high profile projects (Chesapeake Bay, Grand Canyon, Salish Sea, SF Estuary) 10% of projects have some form of assessment. Of those, most not designed to evaluate consequences More locally, the CVPIA is a primary funder of habitat restoration work in CV and source for AMR project. “Department of Interior enact and implement a program… that by 2002… natural production of anadromous fish in CV will be sustained… at no less than twice the average levels attained during 1967-1991” Fiscal Year 2018 ~$40 million ~$ 5 million (AFRP)
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++1 billion annually (15 billion since 1990). A majority of funds go to high profile projects (Chesapeake Bay, Grand Canyon, Salish Sea, SF Estuary) 10% of projects have some form of assessment. Of those, most not designed to evaluate consequences More locally, the CVPIA is a primary funder of habitat restoration work in CV and source for AMR project. “Department of Interior enact and implement a program… that by 2002… natural production of anadromous fish in CV will be sustained… at no less than twice the average levels attained during 1967-1991” Fiscal Year 2018 ~$40 million ~$ 5 million (AFRP)
RESTORATION CONCEPTS
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Action is black box
CAN HABITAT BE MADE?
HOW WOULD PERFORMANCE BE ASSESSED?
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Habitat a limiting factor for protected species such as Chinook Salmon and Rainbow Trout (habitat gone) The assumption is that ecological conditions are altered within new habitat resulting in increase survival (production) of fish.
CURRENT MONITORING LACKS THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO ASSESS PERFORMANCE (“SUCCESS”)
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SurvivalHatchery
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For Salmon: early life stage survival, hatchery, habitat enhancement actions, water operations... work is occurring in box 2, but Juvenile Counts are insufficient to evaluate Box 2. A beneficial actions alters Box 2, but Box 2 is invisible typically.
AMERICAN RIVER PROJECT IS EVALUATING PERFORMANCE
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Viability
Reproductive Success
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Using genetic information to peak into Box 2. Not practical to do without genetic information. Project is both restoring habitat and evaluating the viability and reproductive success by linking adults to juveniles. With his information you are empowered to have a discussion about how to recover species
GENETIC METHODS(PARENTAGE, KINSHIP)
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Many juveniles out there, but we can tell which parents they can from. Kind of like making a family tree. Have information on where parents spawned This is about demonstrating the tool. A mechanism by which performance can be evaluated.
BIOLOGICAL PATTERNS
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1) How many show up? 2) Does # successful breeders increase with increasing spawner numbers? 3) Does juvenile survival change with increasing numbers of successful breeders?
BIOLOGICAL PATTERNS
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1) How many show up? 2) Does # successful breeders increase with increasing spawner numbers? 3) Does juvenile survival change with increasing numbers of successful breeders?
BIOLOGICAL PATTERNS
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1) How many show up? 2) Does # successful breeders increase with increasing spawner numbers? 3) Does juvenile survival change with increasing numbers of successful breeders?
BIOLOGICAL PATTERNS
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1) How many show up? 2) Does # successful breeders increase with increasing spawner numbers? 3) Does juvenile survival change with increasing numbers of successful breeders?
OBSERVATIONS
American River 2014 – 2017
SPAWNERS
American River 2014 – 2017
Female Chinook (All)
Restored 604
Unrestored 747
Juveniles 5,343
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Females only (by treatment), all years Juveniles subsampled based on cumulative run (except for 2017, no production estimate available)
SPAWNER CENSUS
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Escapement – Adults that escape mortality in Ocean
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Adult escapement using genetic estimate (GMR) compared to CDFW carcass survey estimate (Grandtab). CDFW does not report statistical error. Estimating same underlying quantity.
SUCCESSFUL BREEDERS
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SUCCESSFUL BREEDERS
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The number of successful breeders increased over the study period (in contrast to spawner escapement). This information comes from rarefaction.
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SPAWNER CENSUS
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Adult escapement using genetic estimate (GMR).
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SUCCESSFUL BREEDERS
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The number of successful breeders increased over the study period (in contrast to spawner escapement). This information comes from rarefaction.
SURVIVAL
American River 2014 – 2017
SURVIVAL CALCULATION
Production
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Hard to do and generally isn’t done. When it is done…
JUVENILE OUT-MIGRANTS
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Juvenile Production
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Numerator. USFWS provides this estimate from Watt Ave. RST. Projected number of juveniles heading downstream passing the RST.
SURVIVAL CALCULATION
Production
Eggs
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Successful or census can be used to estimate eggs. Production is fixed, so if fewer individuals are successful, but definition the survival must be higher…
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Survival using censusSurvival using breeders
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You can only get this type to information using genetic methods. Using successful breeder estimate shows survival to be a more dynamic process. Relationship complicated by drought
Off/adult slightly higher for Restored, but contingency analysis null of independence NOT rejected. Off/area is higher for restored, with contingency analysis rejecting null for independence.
Off/adult slightly higher for Restored, but contingency analysis null of independence NOT rejected. Off/area is higher for restored, with contingency analysis rejecting null for independence.
American River information exceptional
Continued restoration justified
Habitat can be made!
Space is limited
Demonstrated benefit
Unclear if “quality” impactful on design
Diversity intact
STREAM OF
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Build it and they will come
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1) Tool demonstrated 2) There doesn’t appear to be enough space for adults 3) Females spawning in constructed habitats produce juveniles similarly to females elsewhere 2 & 3 Suggest (in practice) QUANTITY is the informative multiplier 4) Diversity is good, which lead directly into viability being good.
WHAT ARE WE DOING NOW?
Biological factors that influence recruitment
1Habitat factors that influence recruitment
2Water operations interaction with success
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How solid is female location assumptions (i.e. treatment)? Need to test assumption? Sampling does not occur after high flows. What would non-natal rearing do to interpretations?
[(Census sex ratio) – prespawn mortality]* fecundity*