[env-trinity] Mainstem Trinity River Spawn Survey Update for October 21, 2016

[Rupert, Derek]

Hello All,

The US Fish and Wildlife Service along with the Yurok Tribe, California
Department of Fish and Wildlife, US Forest Service, and Hoopa Valley Tribe
have another weekly update for our Trinity River mainstem spawn survey.
The full update is posted on the Arcata Fish and Wildlife Fisheries
webpage.

Trinity River spawn Survey update October 21, 2016.
<https://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries/projectUpdates/TRSpawningSurvey/2016/TrinityReddUpdate_2016_10_21.pdf>

This week our crews mapped 372 redds (1,328 total for the year) in the
Reaches from Lewiston Dam  to Cedar Flat. The graph below is clipped from
our weekly report (limited to the river upstream of Cedar Flat).

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Check out this video on YouTube.

Salmon Fighting
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtyXkl4phc&feature=youtu.be>

You can see a large male Chinook Salmon fighting several smaller males for
the rights to spawn with a female.  This video was taken by C. Laskodi near
Big Bar, CA.
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Cheers,
Derek

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Derek Rupert
Fish Biologist
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Weaverville, CA
Office 530.623.1805
Cell 570.419.2823
Derek_Rupert at fws.gov
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