Fish catch, invertebrate catch, and water quality data from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta collected by the Fish Restoration Monitoring Program, 2015-2017.

The Fish Restoration Program Monitoring Team is tasked with monitoring
fish and food web resources in restored tidal wetland sites. These
restored sites are located in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and
Suisun Marsh pursuant to requirements in the 2008/2009 Biological
Opinions for state and federal water project operations. Data on fish
and invertebrate abundance on or near these sites was collected as
baseline monitoring data and to determine the most efficient methods
for monitoring wetlands. Understanding how invertebrate and fish
communities change pre- to post-restoration is essential to evaluating
the benefits of tidal wetlands to native fish species. Invertebrate
data was collected using sweep nets, benthic cores, neuston nets, and
zooplankton trawls. Fish data was collected using a lampara net and
beach seine. For each method, the team recorded the catch of fish or
invertebrates, length of organisms, and a suite of environmental
information, including: dissolved oxygen, temperature, pH, specific
conductance, and turbidity.