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Region 2 presents early subsistence-fishing survey results; project aims for 200 interviews and larger EPA grant
Summary
Christina Yoshida of the State Water Board’s SWAMP program presented early results from a subsistence fishing and consumption survey in the San Francisco Bay, reporting roughly 50 interviews so far, plans for 200 surveys this year and an EPA grant application to expand to ~1,000. The work aims to inform a subsistence beneficial-use designation.
Christina Yoshida, SWAMP coordinator for Region 2, told the California Water Quality Monitoring Council’s safety work group that her office is conducting a multi-phase subsistence-fishing and consumption survey in the San Francisco Bay to inform a subsistence beneficial-use designation.
"The goal of this project is to assess subsistence fishing and consumption practices in the San Francisco Bay," Yoshida said, describing three development phases that began with survey design and community workshops in 2024.
Yoshida said Region 2 partnered with the San Francisco Estuary Institute and local community-based organizations and tribes to develop a…
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