Status Review Update for Pacific Salmon and Steelhead Listed Under the Endangered Species Act: Central California Coast Coho Salmon ESU

摘要

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) requires that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) review the status of listed species under its authority at least every five years to determine whether any species should be removed from the list or have its listing status changed. Previous listing determinations for 16 evolutionarily significant units (ESUs) of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) and 10 distinct population segments (DPSs) of steelhead (O. mykiss) were issued in June 2005 and January 2006, respectively (70 FR 37160; 71 FR 834). Consequently, NMFS is due to revisit the status of 27 of the 28 currently listed Pacific salmonid ESUs/DPSs of West Coast Pacific salmonids and thus initiated formal status reviews in March 2010 (75 FR 13082). These reviews are being conducted by the NMFS Northwest and Southwest Regions based on scientific summaries of the status of the subject ESUs/DPSs.