Fishery resources of the Redwood Creek basin [DRAFT]
Ridenhour RL and Hofstra TD. 1994. Fishery resources of the Redwood Creek basin [DRAFT]
This paper reviews fish habitat, species, and detrimental human activities in the Redwood Creek basin. There are no limiting barriers to upstream migration in Redwood Creek until near the headwaters; although many tributaries are too steep to offer spawning habitat for anadromous salmonids, the drainage of tributary Prairie Creek provides excellent habitat. The report describes stream characteristics, including water quality; habitat and food resources; predators (human and animal); fishery resources (with a list of native fish and separate descriptions of several species of salmonids); negative impacts through a variety of human activities; and management efforts in recent years. It also mentions flood control structures and effects on the estuary. Some of the fish populations are considered at risk of extinction because of over-harvesting and degradation of the needed habitat, most notably by logging and levee construction; adequate and continuing action to preserve these important fishery resources is needed while stocks survive.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Ridenhour, Richard; Hofstra, Terrence
- Date of Issue
- 1994-02-22
- Units
- REDW
- Keywords
- American Brook Lamprey, Anadromous Fish, Animal Studies, chinook, coastrange sculpin, coho, cutthroat trout, Diet, Estuaries, eulachon, Fish Studies, Fishery Resources, Flood Control, habitat conditions, Habitats, Human Impact, Levees, Logging, night smelt, pacific lamprey, Prairie Creek, Prairie Creek Bibliography, Predation, Predators, Presence (Biodiversity), prickly sculpin, rainbow trout, Redwood Creek Basin, riffle sculpin, Rivers, Sacramento sucker, salmonid, shiner flounder, Spawning, staghorn sculpin, steelhead, Streams, suri smelt, Taxa Links To References, three-spined stickleback, tidewater goby, Water Quality, Western brook lamprey