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UC Davis Biologists Emma Cox, left, Miranda Tilcock, and Nick Corline reinforce a retaining wall in a flooded rice field near Woodland on Tuesday, February 19, 2013. An experiment in raising salmon on a flooded ranch in the Yolo Bypass is proving what biologists have long suspected: That the fish grow bigger and faster when the bypass floods, because they can access insect blooms triggered by the inundation. Today biologists transplanted juvenile salmon into test plots on a flooded farm as part of an experiment to assess whether flooding of the bypass allows salmon to grow faster and bigger. -
Department of Water Resources Project Manager Ted Sommer, left, oversees the project near Woodland on Tuesday. -
Small salmon, mostly from the Feather River hatchery, wait in a holding tank before being introduced to flood water near Woodland on Tuesday. -
Department of Water Resources biologist Steve Brumbaugh scoops salmon from a transport tank near Woodland on Tuesday. -
Small salmon, mostly from the Feather River hatchery, wait in a holding tank before being introduced to flood water near Woodland on Tuesday. -
Biologists scoop small salmon from a transport tank for their release into a flooded rice field near Woodland on Tuesday. -
Director of Salmon and Steelhead Program at California Trout, left, scoops small salmon from a holding tank for their release into a flooded rice field near Woodland on Tuesday. -
Salmon at the bottom of a net before being released into a flooded rice field near Woodland on Tuesday. -
Department of Water Resources Senior Environmental Scientist Louise Conrad, right, weighs small salmon to be released into a flooded rice field near Woodland on Tuesday. -
Wildlife biologists move small salmon from a tank of water into the flood plain easement near Woodland on Tuesday. -
Several flooded areas set aside for the salmon program near Woodland on Tuesday. -
Department of Water Resources biologists prepare to insert tiny monitors into small salmon near Woodland on Tuesday. -
A small salmon is measured before being tagged and released into a flooded rice field near Woodland on Tuesday. -
Department of Water Resources biologists take two coolers full of salmon to the release point near Woodland on Tuesday. -
UC Davis wildlife biologists Miranda Tilcock, left, and Nick Corline carry a cooler full of small salmon into a flooded rice field near Woodland on Tuesday.
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