Mimicking Natural Spring Runoff: Researchers Tagging Juvenile Sacramento River Salmon To Measure Survival Benefits Of ‘Pulse Flows’

Researchers from NOAA Fisheries and University of California Santa Cruz are tagging several groups of juvenile salmon in the Sacramento River system to help measure the benefits from the river’s first “pulse flow.” A pulse flow is a rapid increase and decrease in dam released water designed to resemble natural spring runoff.

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