PAD_December2009

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Theme: barrier, dam, culvert, road crossing, stream, fish migration, corridor, habitat connectivity, obstacle, impediment, passage, inventory, in-stream structure, passage assessment, anadromy, diversion, salmon, steelhead, fragmentation
Place: anadromous, California, coastal, Pacific, Central Valley

Description
Abstract
The Passage Assessment Database shapefile includes locations of existing and potential barriers to salmonid migration in California streams with basic information about each record.

Purpose
The Passage Assessment Database (PAD) is an ongoing inventory of known and potential barriers to anadromous fish in California. It compiles currently available fish passage information from more than 100 data sources, and allows past and future barrier assessments to be standardized and stored in one place. The inventory is to be used to identify barriers suitable for removal or modification to restore spawning and riparian habitat for salmon and steelhead, and to enhance aquatic and riparian habitat.

The PAD is intended to be compatible with a variety of other data sets related to anadromous fish issues. All PAD records are saved with geographic location information. This file can be used to represent the known and potential barriers on maps or to provide latitude/longitude coordinates. Each barrier record is indexed to the 24k high-resolution NHD allowing the user to combine the PAD with other fisheries data tied to the same hydrography. Visit Calfish website at www.calfish.org/PAD for details about the PAD project. For a more detailed description of the digitizing process refer to the PAD Methodology (http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=16493).

A module containing information specific to the DFG Fish Screen and Fish Passage Program has been added. The Fish Screen and Fish Passage Program (FSFPP) conducts inventories of all screened and unscreened diversions and fish passage problems via site visits; it gathers information on the size and number of diversions at each site and presence of existing fish protective facilities. The FSFPP database is fairly comprehesive for the Central Valley streams (Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers systems) and complements PAD that focuses mainly on California's coastal region.

To send comments about data issues, corrections, edits or to map a new barrier location not yet reported in the PAD, please use the PAD Online Data Review Application: http://eris.dfg.ca.gov/padreview/ or send an email to mkoller@dfg.ca.gov.

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