<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5">All,</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5">The article in the Redding Record Searchlight was quite unclear and confusing on the issue of the TRRP's fishery restoration goals, perhaps not the fault of the reporter. It said:</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; ">In 2010, the goal was to have 6,000 fish return to the Trinity River. That year, 5,690 fish returned from the ocean, Schrock said. As of Nov. 12, 4,037 fall and spring run Chinook salmon have been counted in traps at the Trinity River Fish Hatchery, according to the California Department of Fish and Game."</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5">The actual fishery restoration goals for the Trinity River Restoration Program are as follows:</font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><br>Species<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>In-River Goals<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Hatchery Goals<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Total<br><br>Fall Chinook<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>62,000<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>9,000<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>71,000<br><br>Spring Chinook<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>6,000<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>3,000<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>9,000<br><br>Coho<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>1,400<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>2,100<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>3,500<br><br>Steelhead<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>40,000<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>10,000<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>50,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5">I don't know what the total returning numbers of all species were in 2010 (perhaps somebody from DFG can tell us), but if it was only 5,690 total for spring and fall Chinook, the TRRP isn't even close to meeting the combined spring and fall Chinook goal of 80,000 fish. Enumeration of hatchery and natural spawners would also be useful. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5">Obviously, the article also fails to mention that there are also goals for steelhead and Coho (and that little if anything is done by the program to restore those fish that largely spawn in the tributaries).</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><br></font><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div>Tom Stokely<br>Water Policy Analyst/Media Contact<br>California Water Impact Network<br>V/FAX 530-926-9727<br>Cell 530-524-0315<br><a href="mailto:tstokely@att.net">tstokely@att.net</a><br>http://www.c-win.org</div></div></span>
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