{"id":86642,"date":"2025-12-08T21:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/86642\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:19:12","slug":"california-trout-announces-its-mounting-new-state-of-salmonids-study-times-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/86642\/","title":{"rendered":"California Trout announces it\u2019s mounting new State of Salmonids study \u2013 Times-Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Trout announced plans to publish a new edition of its <a href=\"https:\/\/caltrout.org\/sos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State of Salmonids<\/a> (SOS) at last week\u2019s quarterly meeting of the California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout (CAC).<\/p>\n<p>SOS III will follow in the footsteps of <a href=\"https:\/\/caltrout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SOS-II_Final.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the organization\u2019s 2017 landmark study<\/a>, commissioned by California Trout and authored by salmonid experts Peter Moyle, Robert Lusardi, Patrick Samuel and Jacob Katz. The SOS III study, led by Lusardi this time, will take place over the next two years and is expected to be published in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Mierau, North Coast director for California Trout, called the SOS II a \u201ctremendously important piece of work\u201d at the CAC\u2019s meeting. Mierau described the previous iteration of the white paper as providing \u201ccomprehensive information in one place, a kind of one-stop-shop for all 32 species (or dependent population segments) of salmon (and) trout in California, \u2026 establishing a methodology that can be consistent through time, so that we can have an apples to apples comparison \u2026 of trends in status.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One way the SOS accomplishes that consistent methodology is by assigning a scoring rubric to each species.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do know that (salmonid populations are) in decline, and so the purpose of the SOS effort is to periodically \u2026 collect as much information as we can, and then we have this scoring rubric for assessing their status on a scale of one through five,\u201d Mierau told the Times-Standard by phone last Thursday, \u201cand it allows us to objectively measure, over time, from decade to decade, how this status is changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mierau said that embarking on the SOS III is a particularly auspicious moment for CalTrout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think about two points connecting a line, this will be the third time where we\u2019ll see an inflection in that trend from the past,\u201d Mierau said. \u201cSo, maybe, between SOS I and II, there was a decline, and maybe, for SOS III, for some of those species (and) DPS units,\u00a0 there\u2019s an inflection upward because we\u2019re getting some kind of recovery \u2026 or maybe there\u2019s a downward inflection that causes us to look at those changes in status and think about what to do about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s learn from successes and translate those successes into other places or sound the alarms for something that\u2019s going wrong and try to stop any further decline, it\u2019s a process to inform what we do as management agencies, whether it\u2019s (California Department of Fish and Wildlife) or the National Marine Fisheries Service, and it\u2019s a process that informs us restoration and conservation folks on what to do with those changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mierau said that, in the past, SOS data has been used to make recommendations to regulatory agencies on ways in which commercial and recreational fisheries can be better managed. It\u2019s also used by CalTrout in efforts to lobby for bond funding to facilitate restoration efforts in salmonid fisheries \u2014 efforts that include supporting Proposition 4, which passed last year and will provide millions of dollars to restoration efforts. He also said that SOS data is also used to inform priorities in the disbursement of funds via state grant programs through organizations like the Coastal Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Board and CDFW.<\/p>\n<p>SOS II has also been used to create a coffee table book for a lay audience that allows readers easy access to the status of the state\u2019s 32 major salmonid populations.<\/p>\n<p>More information on California Trout\u2019s State of Salmonids study can be found at: <a href=\"https:\/\/caltrout.org\/sos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/caltrout.org\/sos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Schaulis can be reached at 707-441-0585.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Trout announced plans to publish a new edition of its State of Salmonids (SOS) at last week\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,181,23,100,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-86642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newsletter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}