http://www.arcataeye.com/2012/02/ag-impacting-humboldt-bay-february-10-2012/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ag-impacting-humboldt-bay-february-10-2012 The mildly objectionable weekly newspaper for Arcata, California Sun, 19 May 2013 08:38:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.arcataeye.com/2012/02/ag-impacting-humboldt-bay-february-10-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-53718 Local Fish Biologist Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:06:44 +0000 http://www.arcataeye.com/?p=4784#comment-53718 The monitoring in Jacoby Creek is within a small tributary (not Jacoby Creek itself) and numbers have been up considerably last winter and this winter. Nearly 90 adult coho were observed spawning last year (2010-2011) and close to 60 adults have been counted this year. Unfortunately, the lack of annual comprehensive surveys along mainstem Jacoby Creek limits the usefulness of the tributary data in detecting population trends for the entire watershed. For example, are fish counts in the tributary really tracking watershed population trends, or is tributary use a function of streamflow and seasonal rainfall patterns?

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