Transcript MidC_4Nov2009

1. Background Information
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Only steelhead listed – Mid-C steelhead DPS
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Also 10 spring chinook pops; 5 fall chinook; 2 coho; and 2
sockeye (extirpated)
Middle Columbia Steelhead MPG’s
Mid-Columbia Steelhead
Population
Current Viability Status
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Strategy Summary
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VSP: Ensure moderate to high precision estimation
monitoring approaches are in place for abundance,
productivity, spatial structure and diversity. Strengthen
salmonid status and trend monitoring in the DPS,
improve effectiveness monitoring, and facilitate the
implementation of a regionally standardized monitoring
and evaluation program.
Strategy
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Habitat Effectiveness:
Adequately assess habitat status and trends.
Assess effectiveness of specific habitat actions that
address key limiting factors.
Determine the effectiveness of habitat restoration
actions and to detect fish response in the IMWs (fish
in/fish out).
Strategy
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Hatchery Effectiveness: Evaluate the benefits and
risks of supplementation by monitoring natural origin
abundance, productivity, life history, relative
reproductive success and make comparisons of
hatchery and natural origin fish. Develop a better
understanding of origin, abundance and effects of
hatchery strays.
Existing monitoring – Cascade East Slope
◦ $2.45 million; 60% Klickitat M&E
◦ Klickitat Adlt/Juv abundance; habitat status & trends; sthd genetic
sampling; baseline hatchery effectiveness monitoring (spch and sthd)
◦ Deschutes fall chinook escapement monitoring
◦ Rock Creek habitat assessment
◦ Deschutes sockeye reintro methods
◦ Deschutes spch / sthd natural production monitoring
Strategies
VSP for Klickitat (all species) and Deschutes Fall and Spring Chinook
Habitat status & trends for Klickitat
Hatchery Reform effectiveness in Klickitat
RPAs
50.6-fish-in/out W. side Deschutes; 62.5-GSI Sthd; 50.3-PIT tagging
New Monitoring to meet RPA Requirements and the Monitoring Strategy
Cascade East Slope
NEW FUNDING FOR RPA GAPS
ODFW
Conduct fish-in and fish-out monitoring in the
Fifteenmile Creek winter steelhead population.
New project or expand 1993040009
Change To
Existing
Project
199304000
RPAs
New RPA $s
50.6
250,000
New Other Gaps
NEW FUNDING FOR OTHER GAPS
Fund ODFW and CTWSRO to conduct steelhead
ODFW &
fallback study to estimate fallback rates and to
CTWSRO
determine straying at Shearer Falls
New
Proposal
200,000
Implement EMAP adult escapement and juvenile
ODFW &
habitat status and trends including estimates of
CTWSRO
mainstem spawners in Deschutes
New
Proposal
250,000
Implement ODFW Reprodustive Success and
Stray Impact proposal # 200729700 for Deschutes
Eastside(Bakeoven-Buck Hollow) population
New
Proposal
350,000
ODFW
250,000
800,000
Contribution to Strategy, Gaps, and RPAs
Cascade East Slope
Existing + RPA
◦ Fish-in / Fish-out at Fifteenmile (50.6)
◦ Hatchery reform effectiveness in Klickitat
◦ VSP for Fifteenmile, Klickitat
◦ Habitat Status and Trends for Klickitat
Additional Monitoring
◦ Deschutes VSP
◦ Deschutes stray abundance and affects
Existing monitoring – John Day
◦ $1.8 million
◦ John Day IMW (50%)
◦ Basin wide steelhead EMAP adult abundance
◦ Spring Chinook and steelhead smolt abundance
Strategies
VSP for steelhead
Habitat status & trends and effectiveness through IMW
Hatchery steelhead stray proportion of spawners
Freshwater productivity
RPAs
50.6-fish-in/out; 50.3-PIT tagging; 57.1-IMW pilot studies; 56.2 Habitat
status & trends
New Monitoring to meet RPA Requirements and the Monitoring Strategy
John Day
NEW FUNDING FOR RPA GAPS
ODFW
Expand ODFW project # 199801600 to include
steelhead adult EMAP (Lower Mainstem and
Upper Mainstem populations) and juvenile habitat
(GRTS) status and trends monitoring. Improve
PHOS estimates.
ODFW & Funding to collect and process samples to
NOAA complete John Day DNA baseline.
New RPA $s
Change To
Existing
Project
199304000
50.4
350,000
New
Proposal
50.6
50,000
New Other Gaps
NEW FUNDING FOR OTHER GAPS
ODFW
Restore funding to project # 199801600 to
estimate spring Chinook salmon adult productivity
and abundance for all John Day populationsurvival
for $150,000.
Change To
Existing
Project
199304000
150,000
400,000
150,000
Contribution to Strategy, Gaps, and RPAs
John Day
Existing + RPA
◦ Fish-in / Fish-out in M. Fork and S. Fork
◦ Habitat effectiveness in M. Fork
◦ VSP Basinwide, M. Fork, S. Fork, and 1 rotating population
◦ Improved GSI baseline
◦ SARs for Spring Chinook and Steelhead
◦ Improved estimates of strays
Additional Monitoring
◦ Spring Chinook VSP
Existing monitoring – Umatilla / Walla Walla
◦ $2.5 million Umatilla / $0.95 million WW
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Umatilla all-species adult abundance
Umatilla steelhead juvenile abundance
Umatilla hatchery effectiveness including supplementation evaluation
Umatilla all-species natural production monitoring
Umatilla RRS
WW VSP monitoring (mostly steelhead)
Strategies
VSP for steelhead and spring chinook
Hatchery steelhead supplementation effectiveness
Freshwater productivity
RPAs
50.6-fish-in/out; 50.3-PIT tagging; 50.7 hatchery marking
New Monitoring to meet RPA Requirements and the Monitoring Strategy
Umatilla / Walla Walla
NEW FUNDING FOR RPA GAPS
ODFW
New RPA $s
56.1
100,000
New
Proposal
56.1
300,000
New
Proposal
63.2
75,000
Restore full funding to ODFW Smolt Outmigration Change To
and Survival study # 198902401 and improve
Existing
juvenile collection at Three-Mile Falls Dam for fishProject
in/fish-out.
199304000
Implement Umatilla Basin IMW to meet fish in,
ODFW & fish-out and habitat effectiveness
CTUIR recommendations. Includes basinwide EMAP
habitat status and trends.
WDFW
RPA
Expand LSRCP funding to implement evaluation of
the Touchet endemic program (RPA 63.2) if
managers agree to its implementation.
NEW FUNDING FOR OTHER GAPS
Expand existing WDFW fish population sampling
under #200003900 or LSRCP sampling to assess
WDFW the abundance of steelhead spawning in the
Touchet River and Coppei Creek, and assess
effects of the LSRCP mitigation program.
New Other Gaps
Change To
Existing
Project
199304000
50,000
WDFW
Install & operate Touchet smolt trap
New
Proposal
80,000
WDFW
Conduct genetic analysis for juvenile steelhead
captured between Dayton and Waitsburg to
evaluate hatchery steelhead spawning success
New
Proposal
8,000
475,000
138,000
Contribution to Strategy, Gaps, and RPAs
Umatilla / Walla Walla
Existing + RPA
◦ Fish-in / Fish-out for Umatilla
◦ Supplementation effectiveness in Umatilla, Touchet
◦ VSP for Umatilla and Walla Walla
Additional Monitoring
◦ Touchet fish-in / fish-out
◦ Touchet and Walla Walla GSI
Existing monitoring – Yakima Basin
◦ $5.4 million; 85% Yakima Fisheries Project M&E
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Spring Chinook hatchery effectiveness
SpCh relative reproductive success
Predation monitoring
All Species adult/juvenile abundance
Data Management and habitat improvement
Strategies
Addresses benefits and risks of supplementation
Provides essential juvenile and adult abundance for VSP and freshwater
productivity for all species
RPAs
50.6-fish-in/out; 56.3-habitat status & trends w/ fish-in/fish-out; 62.5-GSI;
50.3-PIT tagging
New Monitoring to meet RPA Requirements and the Monitoring Strategy
Yakima
NEW FUNDING FOR RPA GAPS
YN
Expand 199603501 to include Toppenish Creek
Habitat Status and Trend Monitoring with fishin/fish-out
YN
Project to provide VSP information for Yakima
WDFW steelhead MPG. Includes refinement of GSI
YBFWRB methods & MPG level fish in/out data
New RPA $s
Change To
Existing
Project
199304000
50.6,
56.3
250,000
New
Proposal
50.3,
50.6,
56.3
495,000
745,000
New Other Gaps
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Contribution to Strategy, Gaps, and RPAs
Yakima
Existing + RPA
◦ Spring Chinook supplementation effectiveness in Yakima (incl. RRS)
◦ All Species adult/juvenile abundance at Basin Scale (pop scale SpCh)
◦ Toppenish steelhead fish-in / fish-out and habitat effectiveness
◦ VSP abundance and productivity for all four steelhead populations and
Spring Chinook
◦ Fall Chinook and Coho supplementation effectiveness
◦ Predation monitoring (avian and pikeminnow)
Additional Monitoring
◦ None
Accord Contributions
Warm Springs MOA
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Steelhead life cycle monitoring
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Spring Chinook & fall Chinook life cycle monitoring
Umatilla MOA
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Habitat effectiveness program tied to Accord-funded restoration actions for
Spring chinook, steelhead, bull trout.
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Additional focus on lamprey & mussel RME
Yakama MOA
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Evaluation of hatchery effectiveness evaluation through YKFP program
(includes natural production monitoring for all sps)
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Basic fish/habitat monitoring for Klickitat & on-reservation populations
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Lamprey RME & Sturgeon
Budget Summary
Basin
Current $$
+ RPA $$
+Other
Cascade ES
2.45m
2.70m (+10%)
3.50m (+42%)
John Day
1.80m
2.20m (+22%)
2.35m (+30%)
Umatilla / WW
3.45m
3.92m (+14%)
4.06m (+ 18%)
Yakima
5.40m
6.15m (+ 13%)
6.15m (+13%)
Total
13.1m
14.97m (+ 14%)
16.06m (+23%)
RPA’s Not Addressed
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50.4 Estimate precision and accuracy of redd counts including
fish per redd
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Opportunity to conduct this work in the Deschutes,
Klickitat,Yakima, Umatilla, and Walla Walla. This would be a
collaborative study of Tribal and State agencies.