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JOURNAL OF FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 171-180Publisher
U S FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE
DOI: 10.3996/092015-JFWM-092
Keywords
white sturgeon; egg sampling; spawning habitat; recruitment; San Joaquin River; San Francisco Estuary; water management
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- Anadromous Fish Restoration Program [P.L. 102-575]
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Inadequate recruitment is a hallmark of declining sturgeon populations throughout the world. Efforts to understand and address the processes that regulate recruitment are of foremost importance for successful management and recovery. Fish biologists previously only knew San Francisco Estuary white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) to spawn in the Sacramento River, California. We assessed potential white sturgeon spawning locations by deploying artificial substrate samplers during late winter and spring of 2011 and 2012 from river kilometers 115.2 to 145.3 of the San Joaquin River. Collections of fertilized eggs, coupled with hydrology data, confirm that white sturgeon spawned within one and four sites in the San Joaquin River during wet (2011; n = 23) and dry (2012; n = 65) water-year conditions. Small pulse flow augmentations intended to benefit juvenile salmonids appear to have triggered white sturgeon spawning within this system. Understanding the effects of water management on spawning and subsequent recruitment is necessary to increase white sturgeon recruitment to the San Francisco Estuary.
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