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1 local agencies and entities that impound and/or divert 



2 water tributary to the San Joaquin River in the develop- 



3 ment and implementation of projects to — 



4 "(i) coordinate the flows in the Stanislaus, 



5 Tuolumne, Merced, and San Joaquin Rivers and ex- 



6 ports at the Tracy and Banks pumping plants to fa- 



7 cilitate increased survival of San Joaquin River chi- 



8 nook salmon; 



9 "(ii) develop and implement a program in the 



10 San Joaquin River and its tributaries to identify, re- 



11 store, and improve channel and riffle locations, to 



12 clean spawning gravel of fine sediments, and to re- 



13 duce sediment input from near stream and water- 



14 shed areas due to erosion and land management 



15 practices; 



16 "(iii)(I) establish a gene bank to ensure protec- 



17 tion of San Joaquin River fall-run chinook salmon 



18 genetic material in the event of catastrophic loss, 



19 (II) selectively harvest hatchery fish to encourage in- 



20 creases in wild stocks of San Joaquin River fall-run 



21 chinook salmon, (III) mark all hatchery San Joaquin 



22 River fall-run chinook salmon to allow their identi- 



23 fication in ocean and inland fisheries, (IV) capture 



24 and breed wild San Joaquin River fall-run chinook 



25 salmon to enhance wild populations, and (V) estab- 



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