Floodplain rearing of juvenile chinook salmon: evidence of enhanced growth and survival

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Ephemeral floodplain habitats provide best growth conditions for juvenile Chinook salmon in a California river (2008, background): “Because other Central Valley rivers also lack access to floodplains – with the notable exception of the Yolo Bypass for the Sacramento River (Sommer et al. 2001) – juvenile salmon in these systems are frequently displaced to the intertidal delta during high flows.”
Salmon at River's End: The Role of the Estuary in the Decline and Recovery of Columbia River salmon (2005, background): “Studies on a nontidal portion of the lower Sacramento River in California found that tagged juvenile Chinook salmon released in the seasonally inundated floodplain had better growth, higher consumption rates, and improved survival compared to others released into the main river channel (Sommer et al”
Habitat Use and Stranding Risk of Juvenile Chinook Salmon on a Seasonal Floodplain (2005, methodology): “First, we compared survival of each of the Yolo Bypass CWT hatchery-reared salmon release groups with the survival of parallel CWT groups containing the same number of fish released into the Sacramento River (Sommer et al. 2001b).”