<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Hetrick, Nick" <<a href="mailto:nick_hetrick@fws.gov">nick_hetrick@fws.gov</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">July 23, 2013 11:36:29 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">undisclosed-recipients:;<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Bcc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:tstokely@att.net">tstokely@att.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Klamath River Juvenile Fish Health Monitoring Update 2013</b><br></span></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">The Service's California-Nevada </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Fish</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Health</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> Center is leading a collaborative effort involving agencies and tribes to monitor the incidence of</span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Ceratomyxa shasta</i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> and </span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Parvicapsula minibicornis</i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> infection in juvenile Chinook salmon in the Klamath River. </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Fish</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> are being collected within major hydraulic reaches of the Klamath River downstream of Iron Gate Dam by biologists from the Karuk, and Yurok Tribes and the Arcata Office of the US </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Fish</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> and Wildlife Service. The Service's </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Fish</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Health</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> Center provides project oversight and laboratory support and analyses for the project. </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">The attached </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">update</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> for the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">2013 outmigrant season will be posted this week on our website at </span><a href="http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries/projectUpdates.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries/projectUpdates.html</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">We again want to acknowledge the collaborative spirit that has gone into this monitoring program, which is being jointly funded by Reclamation's Klamath Falls Area Office and the Service's Arcata </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Fish</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> and Wildlife Office, and CA/NEV </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Fish</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> Heath Center, with valuable field support provided by the Karuk, and Yurok tribes, the Salmon River Restoration Program, and CDFW. We also want to extend our thanks to Kim True and Scott Foott of the Service's Cal/Nev </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Fish</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Health</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"> Lab for sharing these preliminary data available with us all. </span><div>
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Nicholas J. Hetrick<div>Fish Program Lead</div><div>Arcata Fish and Wildlife Office</div><div>Arcata, CA 95521</div><div>office (707) 822-7201<br></div><div>fax (707) 822-8411</div>
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