Catch/100 feet 



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leads to mixing of wild and hatchery fish (FWP files) and the harvest of both. The 

 diversion and likely hinders upstream movement of juvenile fish. A culvert near the 

 mouth of Snowbank also appear to be a high flow fish passage barrier. 



In its existing condition, 

 the diversion cannot be controlled, 

 which contributes to dewatering 

 during base flow periods. During 

 August 2003, a severe, stand- 

 replacement wildfire burned the 

 Snowbank Creek drainage. 



Fish Populations 



Fish population 



inventories at three locations on 

 Snowbank Creek recorded low 

 densities of WSCT (Figure 41). 

 We found no other species 

 present. Sampling found 



comparable densities above and 

 below the diversion, but 

 substantially lower densities at the 

 sample site near the mouth (Figure 41). 



0.4below 

 Location (stream mile) 



Figure 41. CPUE for WSCT at three locations on 

 Snowbank Creek. August 2003 



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