Non-target Taxa Monitoring Ecological Risk Containment
Non-target Taxa Monitoring
Ecological Risk Containment
“Supplementation is the use of artificial propagation in an attempt to maintain or increase natural production while maintaining the long term fitness of the target population, and keeping
ecological and genetic impacts on nontarget populations within specified biological limits.”
Containment Objectives
PowerPoint Presentation
Results Through 2006
Teanaway
Basin
BACIP
Sites
Baseline Validation of
Control Sites
RBT Abundance in NFT Treatment vs. Control sites
Rainbow Trout and Spring Chinook Abundance
Hypotheses
H1 – Environmental Differences
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Large Scale Environmental Change
H2 - Differential Angling
Index of Angling Pressure
H3 - Supplementation
Abundance Trends in
North Fork Teanaway
(relative to control sites)
NP-SPC vs O. mykiss Abundance
North Fork Teanaway
SPC Smolts vs RBT Abundance (NFT)
Total Combined Biomass (RBT+SPC)
Summary
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