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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Right on, Jim Martin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Because there’s not enough water available from the Sacramento River to meet CA’s 2009 ‘historic Delta legislation’s’ call for meeting the ‘co-equal goals’ of 1- dependable water supply for out-of-stream desires and 2- protection of the watershed’s/ estuary’s public trust resources, the amount of Delta through-flow req’d for the protection of public trust resources having been reported out by the State Water Resources Control Board in August 2010 (<a href="http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/deltaflow/final_rpt.shtml"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/deltaflow/final_rpt.shtml</span></a>) and immediately dissed by the gen’l manager of the Metropolitan Water District of SoCal as – if taken literally - signaling ‘game over’ (whatever that means - sounds ominous, as tho’ he didn’t really appreciate having the best available science concerning the amount of Delta through-flow required to protect public trust resources) the ‘Plan’ announced by the Governor and Sec’y Salazar last Wednesday calls for twin 33-ft diameter tunnels, 15k cfs diversion capacity (the average annual flow of the Sacramento River is 16k cfs), installing three 3k cfs capacity pumps along the river in the Freeport-Hood area to feed a forebay and the tunnels, and launching (i.e., when all the hardware is in place) a 10-15 yr period of ‘adaptive management’ to determine how much water can be withdrawn from the estuary without doing violence to the public trust resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I think the Resources Agency’s Bay Delta Conservation Program mgr Karla Nemeth said it all this week with "We decided to embrace scientific uncertainty regarding the facility's operation, water flows, habitat restoration and the response of fish."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>When the best available science – the work products (link above) from the SWRCB’s months-long 2010 Delta through-flow requirements proceedings – doesn’t work, embrace scientific uncertainty - it’s worked wonderfully well for the Trinity River Restoration Program.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(30 minutes of non-stop performance by NMFS’ animated ‘West Coast Salmon Coordinator’ here <a href="http://www.water.ca.gov/news/newsreleases/2012/072612bdcp_190mb_long.wmv"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://www.water.ca.gov/news/newsreleases/2012/072612bdcp_190mb_long.wmv</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Bill Kier</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Martin, Jim [mailto:jtmartin@purefishing.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 28, 2012 3:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> Kier Associates; Tom Stokely; env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us<br><b>Cc:</b> peter moyle; huey johnson at rri; john mcmanus at earthjustice; jim mccarthy @ mccarthy consult; joel kawahara at earthlink<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [env-trinity] Fwd: CBB: Study Analyzes Benefits Of 'Mark-Selective' Fishing For Wild Salmon Populations<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hey Bill,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Your reminiscing about our battle to establish mark-select fishing brought back a memory for me, when I was asked by Ryan Broadrick and Banky Curtis, then Director and Deputy Director, respectively of DFG about this topic at a North American Wildlife Conference about 8 years ago or so. I told them that mass marking and mark-select fishing was critical to have any stability in fisheries and the Sacramento was at the southern edge of the salmon range and the fight for water was going to be nip and tuck to win over the long term. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I likened it to having an insurance policy….you don’t use it every year, but when you need it….you really need it. They told me that it was just too expensive to mass mark, and the fall run of chinook was stable at over half million fish per year…with plenty of naturals. I told them that the hard times were coming and most of the naturals are really hatchery fish spawning below the hatchery….a definition that will not pass the red face test. They told me that if we really knew how many true wild fish there were, we would probably list the fall run and that would be the end of fisheries….and I told them that ignorance is never a good long term strategy and we have good fisheries on hatchery fish in the Columbia and have 13 stocks listed under the ESA. I told them they were just plain wrong and time will show that to be true.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>