Strategies for Salmon Recovery by Tom Cannon
by Tom Cannon
thomascannon0@gmail.com
This is the first post in a series on my proposed salmon recovery plan.
*Note: NCGASA is providing a place for more information on salmon, but all of Cannon’s recommendations do not necessarily represent the views of our organization. Salmon management is a complicated issue and NCGASA strives to provide all the information that is presented to share with our membership. We hope to educate everyone with additional data and recommendations so our members can get a full picture of the decline of our fisheries.
This post focuses on proposed strategies for recovery of Central Valley salmon and steelhead populations. Despite decades of effort and billions of invested dollars, there has been minimal improvement in the Valley’s salmon and steelhead populations; indeed, some populations remain near or are nearer extinction. My proposed recovery plan if implemented to its fullest extend would reverse this trend. The proposed plan has six strategic approaches.
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- Restore native salmon and steelhead to upper watersheds above selected rim dams and other impassable barriers.
- Maintain native salmon and steelhead populations in lower watersheds below selected rim dams and impassable barriers.
- Improve the contribution of hatcheries to natural populations and to commercial and sport fisheries.
- Restore native salmon and steelhead to streams without dams, streams where dams can be removed, or streams where effective passage can be provided.
- Address habitat, hatcheries, and harvest in a holistic framework for salmon recovery.
- Improve the viability of native wild salmon and steelhead populations by increasing theirproduction through improved habitat, reducing competition with hatchery fish, and reducing harvest by focusing harvest on hatchery fish.
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Tom Cannon has degrees in fisheries and biostatistics from the University of Michigan. Cannon is an fisheries population ecologist and biostatistician and has been involved in California fishery issues for more than 40 years. Over that period, Cannon has been a consultant to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, National Marine Fisheries Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Forest Service, State Water Contractors, Metropolitan Water District, CalFed Bay-Delta Program, State Water Resources Control Board, PG&E, California Striped Bass Association, California Water Information Network (C-WIN), Fisheries Foundation of California, Cal Trout, Karuk Tribe, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, and NCGASA. thomascannon0@gmail.com
