Comprehensive As

and Monitoring P

(CAMP)

Doug Threloff Doug Threloff Fish and Wildlif

Fish and Wildli

John Hannon John Hannon Bureau of Recla

Bureau of Recla
This presentation will p

overview of:

1. CAMP accomplishments in 2. CAMP activities that are ex

occur in FY 2009.

3. Monitoring activities that w

with Central Valley Project Act funds in FY 2007. 
The foundation for th

Section 3406(b)(16) of th

Valley Project Improve

requires that a compr

assessment program be es

monitor fish and wildlife 

the Central Valley and 

biological results and effe

restoration activi
The CAMP has 2 obj

1. Assess the overall effective

restoration actions in meetinproduction targets.

2. Assess the relative effective

restoration categories, i.e., wmanagement modifications, modifications, habitat restorscreens.
The CAMP also str

 Provide leadership in terms o

monitoring techniques and da

 Provide data to Department o

managers, stakeholders, and tpublic. 
Watersheds or areas that are of in
The CAMP is primarily in

nine anadromous fish taxa 

 four runs of Chinook salmon  green and white sturgeon American shad striped bass steelhead

Photo courtesy of M
Fall midwater trawl su

American shad in the S
Monitoring juvenile Chino

abundance usin

g a rotar

y screw 

Red Bluff Diversion 
FY 2008 CAMP Accom

1. Developed an “annual” r

providing a synthesis of afish monitoring data colle1992 and 2007. These daanalyzed to assess changenumbers over time, and ato AFRP fish production 

Estimated natural production of adult 

salmon from the Central Valley, 1992

estimates reflect contributions from 

NATURAL PRODUCTION OF ADULT FALL-RU

FROM THE CENTRAL VALL

0

50,000

100,000150,000200,000250,000300,000350,000400,000450,000500,000550,000600,000650,000700,000750,000800,000

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

YEAR

NUMBER OF FISH

American River Antelope Creek Battle CreeBig Chico Creek Butte Creek Clear Creek Cottonwood Creek Cow Creek Deer Creek Merced River Mill Creek "miscellanePaynes Creek Sacramento River mainstem Stanislaus Yuba River AFRP production target 1967-1991 a
Estimated natural production of 

Chinook salmon from the Am

1992-2007.

NATURAL PRODUCTION OF FALL-RUN 

FROM THE AMERICAN R

0

25,00050,00075,000

100,000125,000150,000175,000200,000225,000250,000275,000

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

YEAR

NUMBER OF FISH

AFRP production target 1967-1991 average 
FY 2008 CAMP Accom

2. Updated a website for dist

CAMP-related data and dthe public and interested sThe website address is:

http://www.fws.gov/sacramento/CA
FY 2008 CAMP Accom

3. Completed a peer review t

feasibility of conducting CProgram Objective #2, i.e.relative effectiveness of fouof restoration actions implunder CVPIA Section 340
FY 2008 CAMP Accom

4. Developed an Excel spread

summarizing monitoring aactivities funded with CVPFY 2007. 
Projected FY 2009 CAM

1. Continue to develop

an annual report 

tracking the 

production of eight anadromous fish taxa.
Projected FY 2009 CAM

2. Continue work with the Pac

Marine Fisheries Commissistatistical and structural desrecommendations for a comdatabase to document and uchanges in the abundance oChinook salmon. 
Projected FY 2009 CAM3. Assess the strengths and lim

rotary screw trap data from River. 

Photos courtesy of the Cramer Fish Sciences co
Projected FY 2009 CAM4. Collect, review, and standa

screw trap data quantifying juvenile Chinook salmon caCentral Valley. 
Overview of moni

activities conducte

CVPIA funds in F
A spreadsheet describing 122 collection activities that were CVPIA funds in FY 2007 is athe CAMP website. Activities funded in 2008 wilthe spreadsheet over the next 
The spreadsheet can be used to 

1. Number of data collection activ

initiated or conducted by a CVP

2. Number of data collection activ

to different species;

3. Number of data collection activ

to different watersheds/areas; an

4. Reason for initiating or conduct

collection activity.