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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 29 / Tuesday, February 16, 2021 / Notices released back to the sites of their capture. Researchers would avoid contact with adult fish at all times. If listed salmonids are captured during the research they would be released before processing any other fish. The researchers do not expect to kill any listed salmonids but a small number may die as an unintended result of the research activities.

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The Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California at Davis, is seeking to renew a permit that currently allows them to annually take adult and juvenile SacR winter-run and CVS
Chinook salmon, CCV steelhead and SDPS green sturgeon in the SacramentoSan Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh in the Central Valley, CA. The project specifically targets splittail and other native minnow populations, however ESA-listed species may be taken as well.
Juvenile fish would be captured via otter trawling, beach seining, and electrofishing, handled and released.
Adult fish would also be captured via otter trawling, beach seining, handled, and released. The purpose of this project is to better understand how physical habitats, flow, and other factors interact to maintain assemblages of native and non-native aquatic species in the upper San Francisco estuary. This study would benefit listed fish by providing knowledge about food webs and the habitats that support them. It would improve our ability to create and restore additional habitat and help managers anticipate the effects of drought, climate change, sea level rise, increased temperatures, and changing hydrologic conditions. The researchers are not proposing to kill any of the fish being captured, but a small number of juveniles may be killed as an inadvertent result of these activities.
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NMFSs Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Ecology Division, is seeking to renew a permit that currently allows them to annually take juvenile and adult CCC, NC and SCCC
steelhead, and CCC and SONCC coho salmon in coastal streams throughout California. Juvenile fish would be captured via screw trap, backpack electrofishing, beach seines, hook and line fishing, and handor dip nets, handled, and released. A subset of the captured fish would be anesthetized, sampled collection of scales, fin clips, or stomach contents, marked or tagged using fin clips, PIT tags, pop-off satellite tags, acoustic tags, or radio tags, and released. In limited cases, some juvenile steelhead would be
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captured and euthanized for otolith ad contaminant analysis. Adult steelhead and coho would be observed via spawning surveys, and tissue samples would be collected from carcasses found during those surveys. Adult steelhead would be captured at fish ladders and by hook-and-line angling, tagged, tissue sampled, and released.
The purpose of this research is to support conservation and management of ESA-listed anadromous salmonids in California by directly addressing information needs that NMFS and other agencies identify for the benefit of the listed fish. This data collected would be used to elucidate population abundance and dynamics; evaluate factors affecting growth, survival, and life-histories;
assess life-stage specific habitat use and movement; inform various types of models e.g., population, life-cycle, bioenergetics, and habitat-use models;
determine genetic structure within populations; evaluate the effects how activities such as water management and habitat restoration affect populations; and develop improved sampling and monitoring methods. With the exception of a small number of juvenile steelhead that would be sacrificed for otolith and contaminant research above, the researchers are not proposing to kill any of the fish being captured, but a small number of juveniles may be killed as an inadvertent result of these activities.
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The Green Diamond Resource Company is seeking to renew a permit that currently allows them to annually take juvenile and adult CC Chinook, SONCC coho, and NC steelhead on Green Diamond lands in the Chetco, Smith, Lower Klamath, Mad-Redwood, and Lower Eel watersheds in Northern California. Adult salmon would be observed during spawning surveys and tissue samples would be collected from carcasses found during those surveys. A
small number of adult steelhead may also be captured during screw trapping.
Juvenile salmon would be captured via backpack electrofishing, snorkel surveys, and screw trapping, handled and released. A small subset of juvenile fish would be captured, anesthetized, marked, tagged, tissue sampled and released.
The purpose of this research is to determine fish presence and distribution, monitor timing and abundance of out-migrating salmon, determine population estimates of summer rearing juveniles, and determine habitat use and relative number of spawning adults. The data from this research would be used to
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benefit listed fish by helping Green Diamond Resource Company minimize the effects that timber harvest activities on their land may have. The researchers are not proposing to kill any of the fish being captured, but a small number of juveniles may be killed as an inadvertent result of these activities.
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The Idaho Power company is seeking to modify a 5-year permit that currently allows them to annually capture juvenile and adult SnkR fall Chinook salmon, SnkR spr/sum Chinook salmon, SnkR steelhead, and SnkR sockeye salmon while studying juvenile white sturgeon in and near Lower Granite Reservoir on the Snake River. The permit would be modified by combining it with a similar permit that Idaho Power holds 19846 that currently allows it to take those same species while studying bull trout in much the same area. The total action area of the two permits combined would extend from the confluence of the Snake and Grande Ronde Rivers up to the first of the Hells Canyon Complex of dams. The researchers would use small-mesh gill nets, benthic otter trawls, and hook-andline angling to capture the fish. The gill net fishing would take place at times October and November and in areas the bottom of the reservoir that have purposefully been chosen to have the least possible impact on listed fish.
When the nets are pulled to the surface, listed species would immediately be released including by cutting the net, if necessary and allowed to return to the reservoir. The d-ring fishing would take place in June and July, but the same restrictions immediately releasing listed fish, etc. would still apply. The same is true for the otter trawls that would take place solely in July and the angling that would be performed from December-March.
The research targets species that are not listed, but the research would benefit listed salmonids by generating information about the habitat conditions in the Snake River and by helping managers develop conservation plans for the species that inhabit it. The researchers are not proposing to kill any of the fish they capture, but a small number of individuals may be killed as an inadvertent result of the activities.
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The Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group SFEG is seeking to renew a permit that allows them to annually take juvenile PS Chinook salmon and PS
steelhead while conducting research to monitor how fish use side-channel habitat in floodplain and tributaries of
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