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"California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout (CACSST) was originally created in 1970 as an advisory body to the California Legislature and the Department of Fish and Game. The CAC was expected to operate autonomously, helping ensure the political will needed to restore California's declining salmon runs. However, since the early 1990s the CAC has been neither funded nor staffed to conduct the studies and other activities necessary to fully comply with their directive to oversee California's salmon restoration program. Likewise, although annual reporting, accompanied by proposed legislative changes, as needed, was originally anticipated, it has been twenty years since the last full CAC report to the Joint Legislative Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture was prepared."

(Barbara Stickel. “The California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout: An Epic of Stymied Good Intentions” (2008), 1)

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Reports available for download

CACSST Annual Reports:

An Environmental Tragedy (1971) 8.62 MB

A Conservation Opportunity (1972) 11.76 MB

The Time is Now (1975) 13.09 MB

The Tragedy Continues (1986) 9.98 MB

A New Partnership (1987) 9.2 MB

Restoring the Balance (1988) 3.8 MB

California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout: Report to the Joint Legislative Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture (1992) 599 KB

Helliwell – California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout: Presentation to 35th annual Capitol Fisheries Forum, with "A Forty-Year History of Citizen Activism on Behalf of California’s Native Fish Resources" (2008) 112 KB

Supporting Documents:

North Coast Basins Report (1987) 3.3 MB

Hallock-Sacramento River System Salmon & Steelhead Problems & Enhancement Opportunities (1988) 3.5 MB

WRC Report 13 - Research & Extension Program (1988) 2.5 MB

Meyer - Benefits from present and future salmon and steelhead production (1988) 2.3 MB

History:

Kier -- A Brief History of the California Legislature’s Annual Fisheries Forum – Where It Has Been, Some of the Chores Ahead.

Kier – Powerpoint Presentation to accompany "A Brief History of the California Legislature’s Annual Fisheries Forum," as presented at the 36th annual Capitol Fisheries Forum (2009) 237 KB PowerPoint (PDF, 933 KB)

Stickel – The California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout: An Epic of Stymied Good Intentions (2008) 268 KB

Stickel – Appendices to “The California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout: An Epic of Stymied Good Intentions” (2008) (2008) 1.4 MB

Resolution Honoring 50 Years of_Salmon_Restoration (2006) 22KB

Relevant Legislation and Fish and Game Code Sections:

Concurrent Resolution No. 64 - Relative to creating an Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout. (Chapter 124, Statutes of 1970) 16 KB

Senate Joint Resolution No. 19 - Relative to salmon and steelhead trout fishery (Chapter 141, Statutes of 1983) 317 KB

California Fish & Game Code Section 2762

California Fish & Game Code Section 6920

Other Items of Interest:

State Water Resources Control Board - Draft Water Quality Control Plan for Salinity: San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary (Oct. 1988) 12.4 MB