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San Pablo Bay Channel Dredge Restrictions

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Consultation and Permit Requirements

Chinook Salmon (Juveniles):

  • PERIOD OF RESTRICTION: December 1 - May 31
  • POTENTIAL IMPACT: Direct habitat loss or degradation; water quality degradation; interference with foraging or food resources; entrainment by dredge
  • DREDGE RESTRICTION: Restrict dredging in area when species is present. Otherwise, see Consultation and Permit requirements: A, B (re: entrainment); C, D (re: habitat loss); and E (re: habitat/water quality degradation)

Chinook Salmon (Adults):

  • PERIOD OF RESTRICTION: December 1 - May 31
  • POTENTIAL IMPACT: Interference with migration; degradation of water quality.
  • DREDGE RESTRICTION: Restrict dredging in these areas during "period of restriction". Otherwise, individual Consultation with NMFS is REQUIRED.

Steelhead Trout:

  • PERIOD OF RESTRICTION: December 1 - May 31
  • POTENTIAL IMPACT: Interference with migration; degradation of water quality; direct habitat loss or degradation; interference with foraging or food resources
  • DREDGE RESTRICTION: Restrict dredging in area during "period of restriction". Otherwise, individual Consultation with NMFS is REQUIRED.

Sacramento Splittail (Juveniles):

  • PERIOD OF RESTRICTION: February 1 - July 31
  • POTENTIAL IMPACT: Direct entrainment by dredge
  • DREDGE RESTRICTION: Restrict dredging in these areas during "period of restriction". Otherwise, individual conferencing (consultation if species is listed as endangered) with FWS and CDFG is REQUIRED.

Longfin Smelt:

  • PERIOD OF RESTRICTION: February 1 - July 31
  • POTENTIAL IMPACT: Direct entrainment of juveniles by dredge.
  • DREDGE RESTRICTION: Restrict dredging in these areas as much as possible during "period of restriction".

Dungeness Crab:

  • PERIOD OF RESTRICTION: May 1 - June 30
  • POTENTIAL IMPACT: Direct entrainment by dredge of early juvenile stages.
  • DREDGE RESTRICTION: Consultation and Permit requirments A and B apply when juveniles are present.

Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse:

  • PERIOD OF RESTRICTION: January 1 - December 31
  • POTENTIAL IMPACT: Loss of salt marsh habitat and adjacent upland refugial cover.
  • DREDGE RESTRICTION: Consultation is REQUIRED with FWS and CDFG for any project that will cause a direct loss of salt marsh habitat in these areas.

California Clapper Rail:

  • PERIOD OF RESTRICTION: January 1 - December 31
  • POTENTIAL IMPACT: Destruction of breeding and nesting habitat, and/or loss of upland refugial cover.
  • DREDGE RESTRICTION: Consultation with FWS and CDFG is REQUIRED for projects that will result in direct habitat loss; see Consultation and Permit requirements D and F.

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  • PERIOD OF RESTRICTION: February 1 - August 31
  • POTENTIAL IMPACT: Disturbance during breeding season (without direct habitat loss).
  • DREDGE RESTRICTION: Restrict dredging in these areas when species is present; see Consultation and Permit requirements D and F.

Western Snowy Plover:

  • PERIOD OF RESTRICTION: January 1 - December 31
  • POTENTIAL IMPACT: Loss of mudflat foraging habitat (new-work projects).
  • DREDGE RESTRICTION: Consultation is REQUIRED with FWS and CDFG for any new-work projects that will cause a direct loss of mudflat habitat in these areas.



















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