2019 Clifton Court Forebay Predatory Fish Relocation Study

The letter required the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to immediately implement interim measure (a) of condition 3 as part of the larger effort to comply with Reasonable and Prudent Alternative (RPA) Action IV.4.2(2) of the 2009 Biological Opinion and Conference Opinion on the Long-term Operations of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project (NMFS BiOp; NMFS 2009).

The PFRS was two years in duration. The 2019 field season was an initial attempt to test the effectiveness of five commercial-type fishing gears and to acquire the necessary information to advise any gear modifications and method refinements to improve catch effectiveness. The PFRS involved capturing and relocating predators from CCF to Bethany Reservoir with the goal of decreasing pre-screen loss of protected fish species with an emphasis on Chinook Salmon and steelhead.