The purpose of the study is to determine and compare interannually the physiological development of juvenile fall-run chinook as they transit the San Francisco Estuary and relate variability of processes to environmental factors. The study is designed to last three to five years to encompass a range of annual variability in environmental factors. In 1995 juvenile salmon were collected by trawl and seine in May and June at locations from the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers to central San Francisco Bay. San Francisco Bay Study. In consultation with fishery and habitat resource managers and researchers, we are in the initial stages of developing a research plan which will help meet the identified information gaps and research needs to provide for the efficient conservation and management of aquatic organisms and their habitats in the San Francisco Bay estuary.
Close coordination is planned with management agencies as well.