<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">We're starting to see spawning activity ramp up in the mainstem Trinity. </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The latest weekly report from our spawning survey is available at the Arcata Fish and Wildlife Office Fisheries Program webpage: </span><br>
</div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries/default.htm" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries/default.htm</font></a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">This week we surveyed Lewiston Dam to Pigeon Point, and got our first look of the year at reaches 9 and 10 (Big Flat Access to Cedar Flat Access). Our crews mapped 35 redds and encountered 16 carcasses. The figure below is clipped from the latest weekly report available at the link above.<br>
</font></div></div><div><font color="#000000"><img src="cid:ii_141389b0f7e40cbc" alt="Inline image 1" width="502" height="345"><br></font></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">For the week of September 23 to 27, we aim to survey reaches 1-7 (Lewiston Dam to the Pigeon Point Access). Some weather is finally on the way and should make things interesting. Look for another update next week.<br>
</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><b>Fun fact for the week...</b></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><div>Did you know?.... in addition to providing great sport and subsistence, salmon bring with them huge quantities of ocean derived nutrients that will feed the next salmon generation and enrich the valley floor? These long-haul truckers gather several hundred tons of nutrients from the ocean and deliver them to spawning grounds on rivers and streams of the Klamath Basin. Enriched with those nutrients, riparian forests thrive and algae and aquatic plants flourish – invigorating insect populations that are the prey base for fish and other aquatic life. A good run of salmon now will contribute greatly to river productivity this winter and spring when the demand for juvenile salmon habitat and food resources will be high. </div>
<div><br></div></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Talk to you soon,</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Charlie</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Charles Chamberlain </font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Supervisory Fish Biologist</font></div><div><font color="#000000">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Arcata Fish & Wildlife Office</font></div><div><font color="#000000">1655 Heindon Road</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Arcata, CA 95521</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=Charles_Chamberlain@fws.gov" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Charles_Chamberlain@fws.gov</font></a></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Phone: (707) 825-5110 Fax: (707) 822-8411</font></div><div><a href="http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries</font></a></div></div>
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