Commission hears update on Puda Creek salmon experiment and a data coordination workshop
Commissioners were briefed on a pilot that released roughly one million salmon fry onto rice fields to boost survival; officials also described a campus workshop to coordinate disparate Puda Creek datasets and efforts to institutionalize the creek’s data collection.
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The commission received two related updates on Puda Creek ecology and data coordination. Speakers described a pilot in which about one million salmon fry were placed on rice fields in the Yolo bypass to increase their ocean survival; organizers expect a larger adult return up the bypass and potentially into Puda Creek in several years, and they noted this year’s Puda Creek salmon run totaled about 2,000 fish.
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