Decades of planning to bolster Kern River rainbow numbers results in little action
Plans to keep dwindling Kern River rainbow trout populations from dipping into endangered species territory are detailed and exacting. … When the first “Upper Kern Basin Fishery Management” plan was written in 1995, its goal was to avoid the Kern River rainbow having to be listed as threatened or endangered after it became a candidate for listing under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Since then, the fish has, in fact, become listed as a “species of concern” by the U.S. Forest service and California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). Still, there has been little to no headway made on actions described in that 1995 management plan, nor an updated and comprehensive 2014 conservation checklist by CDFW, the state’s top agency tasked with managing its fish populations.
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