R8 FAC GST Movement SE3 WFL1 [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service] {2016}
Description
The upper Sacramento River in California contains spawning and rearing habitat for the Southern Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of North American Green SturgeonAcipensermedirostris. In 2006, National Marine Fisheries Service published notification of the listing of the Southern DPS of North American Green Sturgeon as Threatened (71 FR 17757). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service'sMainstemJuvenile MonitoringProgramin Red Bluff, California has been investigating the outmigration of juvenile green sturgeon from the upper Sacramento River to theSacramento- San JoaquinDelta. In 2016, 19 individual juvenile green sturgeon were tagged with two types of Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) micro-acoustic tags. Their outmigration towards theDeltawas monitored by the use of the JSATS receiver array maintained through a collaborative effort by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.This Time Aware map depicts sturgeon movement observed during two flow events produced by a rain storms on October 31st and November 21st, 2016.
Department of the Interior (2018). R8 FAC GST Movement SE3 WFL1 [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service] {2016}. . https://gis-fws.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/fws::r8-fac-2016-gst-movement-se3-wfl1 (web service)