Feather River Program


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Division of Environmental Services
Department of Water Resources

901 P Street
Sacramento, Ca. 95814

Mailing Address:
Post Office Box 942836
Sacramento, CA 94236-0001

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(916) 651-9579

Feather River Program

The Feather River Program was established to conduct Feather River fishery studies. The initial emphasis was to estimate adult abundance for both spring-run and fall-run Chinook salmon, and to conduct tagging studies using young fish from Feather River Hatchery. The Program has expanded in recent years and also supports additional fishery studies commissioned for the Oroville Facilities relicensing through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

		Rotary Screw Trap Survey In 1996 DWR began to monitor salmon and steelhead in support of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing of the State Water Project's... more...

		Coded Wire Tagging In 1998 we began coded-wire tagging naturally produced salmon to attempt a comparison of ... more...

		Chinook Salmon Escapement Survey The salmon carcass survey provides information crucial to monitoring, management and conservation of the Feather River’s salmon populations... more...

		Spring Chinook Tagging Program Early returning adult Spring Chinook are tagged at the Feather River Hatchery and returned to the river where they hold over summer... more...

		Creel Survey Proper management of steelhead and Spring-run stocks requires... more...

		Snorkel Survey The snorkeling surveys are predominantly performed to examine the distribution, abundance and habitat preference of... more...

		Sturgeon The Oroville Dam and its associated facilities prevent sturgeon migration to the upper Feather River so it is important to... more...

		Beach Seining Beach seining is used to augment screw trapping for the purpose of ... more...

		Otilith Thermal Marking Program The Chinook salmon run in the Feather River consists of Central Valley Spring-run and Fall-run; both heavily supplemented by... more...

		Redd Dewatering and Juvenile Stranding Since 2001, DWR has conducted redd dewatering and juvenile salmonid stranding surveys to assess the impact of water operations on the population of juvenile salmonids in the Lower Feather River... more...

		Steelhead Redd Surveys As part of the Oroville Facilities Relicensing process and OCAP BO requirements we perform steelhead redd surveys to identify the location... more...


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