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include: 



Prolect Purpose. Making the protection of fish and wildlife 

 a project purpose of the CVP, brought a needed a balance into the 

 operation of the project. Prior to this (or at least the listing 

 of the winter-run) fish were sacrificed for other project purposes. 

 Under the CVPIA, the Bureau now must balance the needs of fish and 

 wildlife with other project purposes. 



Doubling Goal. The goal of doubling natural spawning 

 anadromous fish populations of the Central Valley is a modest goal. 

 The doubling goal dovetails with California's earlier adopted 

 policy of doubling its salmon and steelhead populations. The CVPIA 

 does not require a restoration of fish populations to pre-project 

 levels, instead it establishes as base period well after the 

 project was in operation to use for the doubling requirement. The 

 wet years of 1983, 1984, 1985 and the spring of 1986 produced 

 record levels of salmon production in 1966, 1987 and 1988, and this 

 year's good harvest appears tc be a result of the 1992-93 wet year. 

 This gives us confidence that it is not only possible to double 

 these populations but, perhaps, even triple them. The U.S. Fish 

 & Wildlife Service has recently released a long list of possible 

 actions that could be taken for the doubling and is now preparing, 

 based on what Is reasonable and prudent, the draft CVPXA doubling 

 plan. It is clear to PCFFA, due to the California Department of 

 Fish & Game's fiscal crisis and its lack of a director, federal 

 leadership will be required to ensure the doubling goal is net. 

 The attempt to turn the implementation of the doubling plan over 

 to the state is nothing more than an effort to kill the doubling 

 plan, pure and simple. 



800.000 Acre-Feet. The set-aside of 800,000 acre-feet of 

 water was much less than PCFFA felt was needed given the multi- 

 million acre-feet diversions by the project taking place. This 

 800,000 acre-feet can, however, play an important role in the 

 doubling goal, protecting endangered species and meeting Bay-Delta 

 water quality standards, provided it is used wisely. Additional 

 water that may be needed for the fish will have to be purchased 

 from the project, provided any is available. 



Restoration Fund. California's salmon fishermen have taxed 

 themselves through their salmon stamp program to raise funds for 

 salmon restoration (the commercial salmon stamp program has been 

 the single largest source of salmon restoration dollars in the 

 state over the past decade) . But fishermen are not in a position 

 to pay to repair all the damage done to salmon stocks by the 

 project. The CVPIA 's requirement that the beneficiaries of the 

 project pay into a fund to help restore damage done by the CVP was 

 a long-overdue reform. 



San Joaquin River Study. PCFFA sought to have the San Joaquin 

 included within all of the other provisions, Including fish 



