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Reclamation Publishes a New Field Guide to Identify Early Life Stages of Green and White Sturgeons

Media Contact: Jeffrey McCracken, 916-978-5100, jmccracken@mp.usbr.gov

For Release: November 30, 2006

The Bureau of Reclamation announces the release of a new field guide to identify the early life stages of Green and White Sturgeon that are found in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta), California. The authoritative guide will benefit fishery scientists and personnel working at State and Federal fish salvage facilities in the Delta by assisting them in identifying and distinguishing the early life stages of the two important species.

The guide was published in response to the recent listing of the Green and White Sturgeon as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

The guide, developed by Reclamation fish taxonomist Johnson C. S. Wang, is Tracy Technical Bulletin 2006-1, Early Life History Comparison of the Green Sturgeon, Acipenser Medirostris, and White Sturgeon, Acipenser Transmontanus, of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, California, is now available for download as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file from the Tracy Research Website at http://www.usbr.gov/pmts/tech_services/tracy_research/index.html.

For additional information, please contact Mr. Ron Silva, Program Manager of the Tracy Fish Facility Improvement Program, at 209-836-6252, or e-mail rsilva@mp.usbr.gov.

If you encounter problems accessing documents online, please contact Ms. Lynnette Wirth at 916-978-5102 or e-mail lwirth@mp.usbr.gov.

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