<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Trinity River fans,</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Our latest in-season report from the Trinity River Salmon Spawning Survey is available from the Fisheries web page of the Arcata Fish and Wildlife Office: <br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries" target="_blank">http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries</a><br></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:12.727272033691406px">Trinity River flows came back down to base on Wednesday 9/24 and our crews got out there to survey Lewiston Dam to Pigeon Point.  They mapped the locations of 154 redds and 26 carcasses over three days.  Now that flows are back down, hopefully activity will ramp up quickly and we can start to catch back up.  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px">The figure below is clipped from our weekly report available at the link above.</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><img src="cid:ii_148b4b36ada9cbbe" alt="Inline image 1" width="487" height="335"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">It was great to see some rain this week - I hope there's a lot more of that on the way this fall and winter!</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Fun fact for the week...  </b>Courtesy Nicholas Van Vleet - AFWO<font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" style="font-size:13px">Did you know…. </font><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:small">The American Dipper is a </font><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">songbird</span><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">commonly sighted along the Trinity River. They prey on small fish, fish eggs, and aquatic invertebrates.  They can dive up to 20 ft deep and scour the river bottom for food!  An oil gland helps waterproof their feathers. Dippers are territorial and their population density on a stream can be a reflection of the stream's water quality and food availability. A couple of the links below report that the American Dipper's forays into deep water occasionally make it prey for a trout!</span><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://www.nwf.org/wildlife/wildlife-library/birds/american-dipper.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://www.nwf.org/wildlife/wildlife-library/birds/american-dipper.aspx</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_dipper" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_dipper</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v055n03/p0158-p0158.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v055n03/p0158-p0158.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Gotta go.  I need to see what the fly shop has for Dipper Imitations! <br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><div>Please let me know if you wish to be removed from my blind cc list for these updates.</div><div>Charlie<br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Charles Chamberlain <br>Supervisory Fish Biologist<br>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<div>1655 Heindon Road, Arcata, CA 95521</div><div><a href="http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries" target="_blank">http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries</a><br><div>(707) 825-5110<br><br></div></div></div></div>
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