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The Lodi Fish and Wildlife Office promotes native and self-sustaining ecosystems through leadership in restoration, research, and monitoring of fishes of the Central Valley, California, and supports personal development and professionalism through an environment of mentoring, collegiality, and collaboration. To achieve our objectives, we foster and value strong productive collaborations, internally and with other organizations, peers, stakeholders and the public. Our work is governed by honesty and integrity and incorporates excellence in science, creativity and flexibility.

The Lodi Fish and Wildlife Office's work toward recovery and conservation of species and their habitats includes:

Funding habitat restoration and research projects focused on increasing anadromous fish populations through the Anadromous Fish Restoration Program;


Conducting field studies to document the status of fish populations through the Delta Juvenile Fish Monitoring Program and Enhanced Delta Smelt Monitoring Program;

Providing statistical, modeling and synthesis work through the Lodi Science Support Program, including the Delta Smelt Life Cycle Model and Juvenile Salmonid Survival Studies;


Evaluating and guiding the restoration of spring-run Chinook salmon through the San Joaquin River Restoration Program;


Providing technical assistance and training for state and federal agencies and other partners; and


Leading and supporting outreach and educational opportunities in our office and across the Central Valley.

Our experts manage and conduct multiple fish monitoring programs requiring continuous work to adjust the programs' sampling designs, statistical models and data management, as well as scheduling and logistics for field crews.

Ongoing research at the Lodi office includes developing numerical models, analyzing historical trends and exploring how biotic and abiotic factors impact fishes. These investigations have resulted in publication of many peer-reviewed papers.

We provide technical assistance and training to members of the public, academic researchers, state and federal agencies and other partners. Our expertise informs Endangered Species Act consultations, supports implementation of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act and helps guide water operations.

Our team is a dedicated community partner, committed to working with local organizations to improve environmental conditions, support natural resource-related events and connect with youths in fun, educational activities.

The Lodi Fish and Wildlife Office contributes to a wide range of monitoring, restoration and research projects. Our Delta Juvenile Fish Monitoring Program, for example, conducts monitoring of juvenile fishes, participates in multi-agency research activities and contributes to technical and management committees.

Through the multi-agency San Joaquin River Restoration Program, we work to restore naturally reproducing and self-sustaining fish populations to the San Joaquin River. We also support the Anadromous Fish Restoration Program's goal of at least doubling the natural production of anadromous fish in Central Valley streams, and our experts participate in large-scale, multi-agency, Juvenile Salmonid Survival Studies in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

Lodi statisticians and biologists also have worked with colleagues in the San-Francisco Bay-Delta Fish and Wildlife Office to create a Delta Smelt Life-Cycle Model and a Delta Smelt Individual-Based Model, which assess and predict the effects of water resource-management actions on the Delta smelt population.

Our team synthesizes research and monitoring data to produce high-quality scientific presentations given at local, regional and national scientific conferences. Our findings are also shared through reports, scientific papers, newsletters and blog posts.

When scientists proposed moving endangered winter-run Chinook salmon into historical habitat upstream of Shasta Dam this summer, they expected some people would doubt the seemingly new idea could work. But it wasn’t a new idea at all, and it had been proven long ago.

When Austin Demarest and his team started looking for white sturgeon to tag in the San Joaquin River in March, he knew some days would be uneventful — on the boat at dawn for a full day of setting and retrieving empty nets. Other days, however, would put them to the test.

About 15 years ago, at a wetland science conference, Vanessa Tobias presented early results from her Ph.D. research into the leaf-tissue chemistry of wetland grasses. Tobias’ data, displayed on a poster next to her as she took questions in a conference hall, identified markers that could help land...

The Lodi Fish and Wildlife Office is a dedicated community partner, committed to working with local organizations to improve environmental conditions, support natural resource-related events and connect with youths through fun and educational activities.