COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT AND 

MONITORING PROGRAM (CAMP)

SECTION 3406(B)(16) OF THE CVPIA

• Douglas Threloff: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

• Robert Evans: Bureau of Reclamation
THE CAMP’S PURPOSE, AND NATURE 

OF THE PROBLEMS IT ADDRESSES:

Section 3406(b)(16) of the CVPIA requires that 

a comprehensive assessment program be 

established to monitor fish and wildlife 

resources in the Central Valley and assess the 

biological results and effectiveness of 

restoration activities.
THE CAMP HAS 3 OBJECTIVES

1. Assess the progress made in achieving the AFRP’s fish 

production targets.

2. Assess the effectiveness of four types of restoration categories 

that include water management modifications, structural 

modifications, habitat restoration, and fish screens.

3. Establish a data management program to manage CVPIA data as 

a resource available to all interested parties, provide training in 

data management, ensure compliance with relevant federal laws 

and regulations, and to ensure the effective and economical 

management of the resource. 
FY 2012 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1. Produced the 2011 version of the CAMP annual report 

providing a synthesis of anadromous fish monitoring data 

and an assessment of changes in fish numbers relative to the 

AFRP’s fish production targets.

FY 2012 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2. Updated a website for distributing CAMP-related data and 

documents to the public and interested stakeholders. 

http://www.fws.gov/sacramento/Fisheries/CAMPProgram/Home/fisheries_camp-program.htm 


FY 2012 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

3. Provided funding to continue the monitoring of juvenile 

Chinook salmon on the Stanislaus River for the 16th year 

consecutive year.

FY 2012 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

4. Continued development of a CAMP rotary screw trap 

“platform” that will produce standardized juvenile Chinook 

salmon production estimates from multiple locations across 

California’s Central Valley. The CAMP is working with 

multiple partners in an effort to encourage them to adopt 

the platform, which would greatly simplify data sharing, and 

create a more unified approach to monitoring juvenile 

salmon in the Central Valley.

FY 2012 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

5. In partnership with the Pacific States Marine Fisheries 

Commission, East Bay Municipal Utility District, California 

Department of Fish and Game, and California Department of 

Water Resources, supported the Constant Fractional Marking 

Program which is designed to mark 25% of the fall-run 

Chinook salmon produced at California’s Central Valley fish 

hatcheries.

FY 2012 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

6. Provided funding to collect adult salmon data on 

Cottonwood Creek and the Sacramento River mainstem in 

2011, and thereby quantify the relative proportion of wildvs. hatchery origin salmon in those watersheds.

OVERVIEW OF FY 2013 PLANS 

• Work toward finalizing the first fully functional version of the 

CAMP RST platform which will provide a broad-based 

understanding of the number of juvenile salmon that are 

emigrating from Central Valley rivers and streams.

• Initiate a effort to restart rotary screw trapping activities on 

the American River in collaboration with the Pacific States 

Marine Fisheries Commission and California Department of 

Fish and Game.

• Continue monitoring of juvenile salmon on the Stanislaus 

River with rotary screw traps.
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT 

With the completion of the first fully function version of the 

CAMP RST platform, there will be an ability to:

a) begin to understand how juvenile salmon have 

responded to habitat restoration activities, and how 

future habitat restoration activities may need to be 

modified to produce larger number of adult and juvenile 

salmon, and

b) a greater understanding of how the survival of juvenile 

salmon is affected by ocean conditions, and thereby 

affects the number of adult salmon that migrate from the 

ocean to Central Valley rivers and streams to spawn. 
FY 2012 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

7. Introduced draft versions of 

a) the CVPIA Data Acquisition and Management Plan, and

b) an Excel based tool to document Mission Critical 

Resource Data (MCRD) (used in conjunction with the 

DAMP).

8. Continued development of the CVPIA GIS Network Access 

Tool (GNAT). The GNAT will provide easy online access to 

CVPIA Documents and Reports. 
OVERVIEW OF FY 2013 PLANS 

• Deploy the beta version of the CVPIA GIS Network Access 

Tool (GNAT) in the first half of FY2013.

• Issue the CVPIA Data Acquisition and Management Plan 

(DAMP) for comments.

• Update the CVPIA DAMP Excel tool and submit to CVPIA Data 

Stewards for testing and comments.
CVPIA GIS Network Access Tool (GNAT)

• Based on the CVPIA Document Database created in 2010.

• The GNAT provides easy online access to CVPIA documents and 

reports.

• A web based system that allows the user to see spatial 

relationships between CVPIA projects & documents.

• Accessible to program managers, scientists, and the public.

• Will allow new documents to be submitted for inclusion via the 

Web. 

• Currently in Beta version with over 300 documents related to 

CVPIA programs and the Central Valley ecosystem.
CVPIA GIS Network Access Tool (GNAT)

GNAT Graphical User Interface (GUI)
CVPIA GIS Network Access Tool (GNAT)

Example of document retrieval
CVPIA Data Acquisition & Management Plan 

(DAMP) Excel Tool

• The CVPIA DAMP Excel tool will be updated and submitted to 

CVPIA Data Stewards for testing and comments.

• The Excel spreadsheet will allow all data sets to be documented 

in a consistent manner throughout the CVPIA Program.

• Consistent documentation will allow the information to be 

entered into databases such as Access or web-based systems.

• Information entered will include that needed for the creation of 

metadata.
CVPIA DAMP Excel Tool for documenting data

Background 

& Summary

Overview of 

Program

List of Data 

Sets

Template for 

individual sets

Instructions 

for Template

Additional 

Info

Related Data 

Sets
CVPIA Data Acquisition & Management Plan 

(DAMP) Excel Tool

• The CVPIA DAMP Excel tool will be updated and submitted to 

CVPIA Data Stewards for testing and comments.

• The Excel spreadsheet will allow all data sets to be documented 

in a consistent manner throughout the CVPIA Program.

• Consistent documentation will allow the information to be 

entered into databases such as Access or web-based systems.

• Information entered will include that needed for the creation of 

metadata.
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