Solano water agency extends support for salmon study in Lower Putah Creek
VACAVILLE The Solano County Water Agency has agreed to fund for another year the University of California, Davis salmon research on Lower Putah Creek.
“We will be able to use data from DNA comparisons to estimate how many Chinook salmon in Putah Creek originate from past spawners in the system. In addition, we will be able to track juvenile salmon migrations within and outside the system to understand their survival rates and outmigration dynamics, including potential methods for boosting survival,” Andrew Rypel, associate professor and the California Trout Chair in Coldwater Fish Ecology at UC Davis, said in a statement.