PRES 2016 Annual Report

During the 2016 pilot study effort reported here, electrofishing was conducted on 11 days during the months of April and May as a preliminary step in fulfilling regulatory obligations under the 2009 National Marine Fisheries Service Biological Opinion and Conference Opinion on the Long-term Operations of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project. This 2016 pilot effort resulted in the removal of 2,059 striped bass, 594 black bass, and 33 catfish from CCF. Size distribution of predatory fish captures suggest that 98.5 percent of striped bass and 37 percent of black bass are below the minimum legal recreational harvest length limit.