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Santa Clara River Steelhead Trout: Assessment and Recovery Opportunities
Southern steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss), captured near lower Sespe Creek by William A. Brown, winter 1911.
Habitat conditions, population status, and barriers to migration for Oncorhynchus mykiss (steelhead trout) were surveyed and analyzed in the lower Santa Clara River watershed in Ventura County. The assessment focused primarily on tributaries to the lower river, including Santa Paula Creek, Sespe Creek, Pole Creek, Hopper Creek, and Piru Creek. Steelhead habitat and migration barriers were analyzed using state standard methods outlined in the California Salmonid Stream Habitat Restoration Manual. The assessment provides an estimate of the O. mykiss population in the lower Santa Clara River and recommendations for effective fish passage actions based on California Department of Fish and Game and NOAA Fisheries guidelines.
Project Type: Baseline
Status: Complete (completed in December 2005)
Santa Clara River Steelhead Trout: Assessment and Recovery Opportunities.
Prepared for The Santa Clara River Trustee Council and The Nature Conservancy, Ventura, California.
Santa Clara River Steelhead Trout: Assessment and Recovery Opportunities: Field Data
Field Data
Santa Clara River Steelhead Trout: Assessment and Recovery Opportunities: GIS Data
GIS Data