There was another species that was impacted in a smaller way. When you drop the water surface elevation on these big bars, you also affect the local hydrology. Chum salmon don't spawn in main channels, as pink salmon do; they spawn in dead-water side channels. At the far perimeter of the bar, there is a dead channel, a groundwater channel, which, when we first went to observe it, was completely dry. We thought it was the natural de-watering.
When the water levels came back up, all of a sudden this spawned area that had been de-watered was re-watered again, and we realized we should have assessed it as well, because obviously the de-watering of the channel affected the groundwater that would go through the bar and irrigate this other species of salmon.