FY07-09 proposal 198909800

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Section 1. Administrative

Proposal titleIdaho Supplementation Studies
Proposal ID198909800
OrganizationIdaho Department of Fish and Game/NPT/SBT/USFWS
Short descriptionThe goal of the Idaho Supplementation Studies is to evaluate supplementation as a recovery/restoration strategy for spring/summer Chinook salmon in Idaho. The project is a multi-agency effort, covering 30 streams throughout the Salmon and Clearwater subba
Information transferThe ISS program regularly makes project data available to such regional databases as StreamNet, PTagis, CSMEP, and PNAMP either through agency representatives, daily data uploads via the internet, or direct data requests. Data summaries are provided to BPA through joint annual reports that incorporate the input of all program cooperators. The ISS project also maintians a centralized server that houses project data and website to allow all cooperators access for data storage, summary, and specific analyses.
Proposal contact person or principal investigator
Contacts
ContactOrganizationEmail
Form submitter
Doug Taki Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall dtaki@shoshonebannocktribes.com
All assigned contacts
Carrie Bretz Idaho Fishery Resource Office-USFWS carrie_bretz@fws.gov
Carrie Bretz Idaho Fishery Resource Office-USFWS carrie_bretz@fws.gov
Jerald Lockhart Nez Perce Tribe jerryl@nezperce.org
Jerald Lockhart Nez Perce Tribe jerryl@nezperce.org
Doug Taki Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall dtaki@shoshonebannocktribes.com
Doug Taki Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall dtaki@shoshonebannocktribes.com
David Venditti Idaho Department of Fish and Game dvenditti@idfg.idaho.gov
David Venditti Idaho Department of Fish and Game dvenditti@idfg.idaho.gov

Section 2. Locations

Province / subbasin: Mountain Snake / Salmon

LatitudeLongitudeWaterbodyDescription
American River Control Stream
Bear Valley Creek Control Stream
Big Flat Creek Treatment Stream
Brushy Fork Control Stream
Clear Creek Treatment Stream
Colt Creek Treatment Stream
Crooked Fork Lochsa River Control Stream
Crooked River Treatment Stream
East Fork Salmon River Treatment Stream
Eldorado Creek Control Stream
Herd Creek Control Stream
Johnson Creek Treatment Stream
Lake Creek Control Stream
Lemhi River Control Stream
Lolo Creek Treatment Stream
Marsh Creek Control Stream
Newsome Creek Treatment Stream
North Fork Salmon River Control Stream
Pahsimeroi River Treatment Stream
Papoose Creek Treatment Stream
Pete King Creek Treatment Stream
Secesh River Control Stream
Slate Creek Control Stream
South Fork Salmon River Treatment Stream
Squaw Creek Treatment Stream
Valley Creek Control Stream
West Fork Yankee Fork Treatment Stream
White Cap Creek Control Stream
Red River Treatment Stream
Salmon River Treatment Stream

Section 3. Focal species

primary: Chinook Snake River Spring/Summer ESU

Section 4. Past accomplishments

YearAccomplishments
2005 Completed NPCC/ISRP Programmatic Review Issue 10 Report DOE/BP-00020863-1 Report 05-25 (Available on the IDFG website. BPA has not yet loaded this report)
2004 Released the last ISS smolt groups into treatment streams.
2003 Released the last ISS pre-smolt supplementation groups into treatment streams Report 03-37 (Available on IDFG website. BPA will re-load on their site) Report DOE/BP-00006630-2 Report DOE/BP-00004998-1 Report DOE/BP-00004127-4
2002 The last groups of adults were collected for ISS broodstocks. Broodstock creation was extended through 2002 to increase the number of streams receiving “full” treatment levels Continued supplementation evaluation on treatment and control streams
2001 Continued supplementation of treatment streams and monitoring of control streams, continued monitoring of juvenile survival and abundance, and monitoring of adult returns. Report DOE/BP-00004012-2
2000 Continued supplementation of treatment streams and monitoring of control streams, continued monitoring of juvenile survival and abundance, and monitoring of adult returns.
1999 Continued supplementation of treatment streams and monitoring of control streams, continued monitoring of juvenile survival and abundance, and monitoring of adult returns Report DOE/BP-00006630-1 Report DOE/BP-00004012-1
1998 Continued supplementation of treatment streams and monitoring of control streams, continued monitoring of juvenile survival and abundance, and monitoring of adult returns
1997 Monitored adult returns from prior releases and natural spawning and juvenile production. Continued supplementation brood stock production and juvenile releases.
1996 Completed first series of small scale investigations 1992-1994. Technical Report 96-3 ICFWRU Monitored adult returns and juvenile emigration Broodstock production and juvenile releases Report DOE/BP-014664 Report DOE/BP-01466-4A
1995 Release of progeny from supplementation brood stocks to treatment streams; continued brood stock development Monitored adult returns from prior releases and natural spawning. Used adults from earlier ISS releases in broodstocks Report DOE/BE-00004127-3
1994 Release of progeny from supplementation brood stocks to treatment streams; continued brood stock development Report DOE/BP-00004127-2
1993 Release of progeny from supplementation brood stocks to treatment streams; continued brood stock development. Monitored treatment and control streams Report DOE/BP-01466-2 Report DOE/BP-00004127-1
1992 Began supplementation (juvenile releases) and monitoring of treatment and control streams. Monitoring included PIT tagging and juvenile and adult abundance estimates.
1991 Published study design Began preliminary baseline data collection on treatment and control streams including stock history, genetic sampling. Initiated development of local brood stocks to provide future releases.

Section 5. Relationships to other projects

Funding sourceRelated IDRelated titleRelationship
BPA 198909801 Salmon Studies Id Rvrs USFWS Cooperator
BPA 198909802 Salmon Studies Id Rvrs NPT Cooperator
BPA 198909803 Salmon Studies Id Rvrs SBT Cooperator
BPA 199005500 Id Steelhead M&E Studies Coordination of field activities and data collection efforts
BPA 199107300 Idaho Natural Production Monit Coordination of field activities and data collection efforts.
BPA 199102800 Pit Tagging Wild Chinook Coordination of field activities and data collection efforts
BPA 199405000 Salmon River Habitat Enhance Coordination of field activities and data collection efforts
BPA 199107100 Sockeye Salmon Hab & Limnologi Coordination of field activities and data collection efforts
BPA 199700100 Idaho Chinook Salmon Captive R Coordination of field activities and data collection efforts
BPA 199107200 Redfish Lake Sockeye Salmon Ca Coordination of field activities and data collection efforts
BPA 198335003 Nez Perce Tribal Hatchery M&E Coordination of field activities and data collection efforts
BPA 199604300 Johnson Creek Artificial Propa Coordination of field activities and data collection efforts
BPA 199703000 Listed Stock Adult Escapement Coordination of field activities and data collection efforts
Other: LSRCP [no entry] Sawtooth, Pahsimeroi, McCall, Clearwater Hatcheries Operate adult weirs used by the ISS program
BPA 199008000 Columbia Basin Pit-Tag Informa ISS program uploads daily PIT tag files to this regional database
BPA 198810804 Streamnet (CIS/NED) ISS program distributes information to this regional database through our agency representative
BPA 200303600 CBFWA Monitor/Eval Program ISS regularly provides data to this program as requested
BPA 199602000 Pit Tagging Spring/Summer Chin ISS tags a significan number of known source, wild Chinook salmon juveniles whose detections can be used by this program
BPA 198712700 Smolt Monitoring By Non-Feder ISS tags a significan number of known source, wild Chinook salmon juveniles whose detections can be used by this program
BPA 199403300 Fish Passage Center ISS tags a significan number of known source, wild Chinook salmon juveniles whose detections can be used by this program
BPA 200206200 Chinook Return Quantification ISS tags a significan number of known source, wild Chinook salmon juveniles whose detections can be used by this program
Other: Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund 014-04-SA Lemhi River Conservation Plan Personnel from the ISS program are also contributing to and collaborating in the development of this monitoring and evaluation program
Other: Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund 015-04-SA Lemhi River Conservation Plan Personnel from the ISS program are also contributing to and collaborating in the development of thismonitoring and evaluation program
BPA 199506335 Klickitat Fishery YKFP M & E While the ISS is an experimntal study and YKFP M&E is an ongoing population maintenance program, results from both may be used in a regional evaluation of supplementation.
BPA 200001900 Tucannon River Spring Chinook These two programs are evaluating different types of supplementation, but results from both may be used in a regional evaluation of supplementation.

Section 6. Biological objectives

Biological objectivesFull descriptionAssociated subbasin planStrategy
Assess outofbasin factors affecting smolt outmigra Populations status monitoring Clearwater 4.3.1 - VIII.3 collect and analyze juvenile mortality from FCRPS and conduct surveys to enable calculation of returns per spawner for chinook
Calculate mainstem mortality Use detections of PIT tagged smolts to estimate mortality during migration. Clearwater 1A1 - Examine mainstem mortality associated with differential migration timing..
Delevelop smolt to adult return ratios Using juvenile and adult weirs to enumerate smolt abundance and returning spawners, produce smolt to adult ratios for Chinook salmon. Clearwater 4.2.2 - 1.A.1 and 1.A.2 determine population specific smolt-to-adult return rates (SAR) for anadromous salmonids on a representative set of index streams. Determine population-specific smolt-to-adult return rates for chinook salmon...
Delevelop smolt to adult return ratios Using juvenile and adult weirs to enumerate smolt abundance and returning spawners, produce smolt to adult ratios for Chinook salmon. Salmon 1.A2 Determine population specific smolt-to-adult return rates (SAR) for anadromous salmonids on a representative set of index streams. Determine population-specific smolt-to-adult return rates for chinook salmon...
Estimate freshwater productivity In addition to adult weirs, redd counts, and juvenile trapping we will conduct multiple pass carcass surveys on ISS study streams collecting the necessary biological samples to estimate sex ratio, pre-spawn mortality, parentage analyses, age structure, weir efficiency, and origin (natural, ISS, or GP hatchery). Salmon Strategy 3C3 - Determine population productivity on a representative set of index streams
Estimate juvenile and adult abundance Operate adult weirs to monitor adult escapement. Operate screw traps to estimate juvenile abundance. Salmon Strategy 3C1 - Quantify population specific adult and juvenile abundance information for focal species on a representative set of index streams.
Estimate juvenile freshwater survival rate Combine information from screw traps, PIT tag detections and the SURPH2 model to determine survival by life history stage to compare between treatment types and stream classifications. Salmon 1A1, 2A1, 2A2, 3A2, 3C3
Estimate juvenile freshwater survival rate Using adult traps to quantify returning adults and redd counts to estimate the number of spawning adults (and subsequesnt offspring), and juvenile traps to estimate smolt densities, the ISS project will estimate smolts per female. Salmon Strategy 3A2 - Determine juvenile or smolt per female measurement to further knowledge of freshwater productivity
Identify origin of adult Chinook salmon Conduct multiple pass carcass surveys on ISS study streams collecting the necessary biological samples to estimate sex ratio, pre-spawn mortality, parentage analyses, age structure, weir efficiency, and origin (natural, ISS, or GP hatchery strays). Salmon Strategy 3C1 - Quantify population specific adult and juvenile abundance information for focal species on a representative set of index streams.
Identify reproductive contribution of adults Collect DNA samples from juvenile and adult Chinook salmon to identify the reproductive contribution of natural, ISS, and/or GP hatchery stray origin adults and to compare genetic indices over time for supplemented and unsupplemented populations. Salmon 1B4, 2A2&7, 3A2, 3C4 "ISRP 2003-8 pg 4" "NPPC memo dated 7/9/2003 M. Fritsch to F&W Comittee Members pg 1" "ISRP/ISAB 2005-15 pg 7, 9" "ISRP 2005-14 pg 85"
Investigate population status Assess current status of natural and hatchery derived populations of salmon Clearwater 4.3.1 - VIII.1 Identify tributary specific life history characteristics, juvenile and adult migration patterns, survival factors, adult spawner abundance, distribution, timing and parentage, spawning success, spawner to spawner ratios
Sustain or rebuild natural production w/hatchery f Use supplementation adults to augment natural production Clearwater 4.3.1 - VIII.4 Use direct adult and juvenile outplants and measure recruitment success of outplants and natural spawning progeny

Section 7. Work elements (coming back to this)

Work element nameWork element titleDescriptionStart dateEnd dateEst budget
Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation ESA Take Reporting Cooperate with BPA environmental personnel to ensure continued compliance documentation are being completed. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $126,400
Biological objectives
Metrics
Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation Produce Biop/Metrics Report A special annual report will be required for the FCRPS Biological Opinion Annual Progress Report. The format for this report will be provided by BPA's project manager as soon as the report format is finalized. The actions areas under the Biological Opinion that this contract will be required to report on are: RPA 180, RPA 182, and contingent on funding and approval of program change of scope RPA 185. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $50,500
Biological objectives
Metrics
Manage and Administer Projects Coordinate ISS Program Activities with Cooperating Agencies Attend relevant inter- and intra-agency meetings, workshops, training as required to coordinate program activities. Coordinate activities and share project information through attendance and participation in professional meetings (e.g., AFS, CBFWA Implementation Reviews, NPCC) and meetings with other regional supplementation programs. In addition, coordinate with state, federal, and tribal hatcheries integrated with the ISS project. Also includes day to day operations of the project for administration, logistics, and operations of the project to collect, analyze, summarize, and report data, results, and conclusions 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $47,400
Biological objectives
Metrics
Manage and Administer Projects Prepare Proposal Package for FY10 Provincial Review All cooperators contribute to a joint proposal for the next funding cycle. 1/1/2008 12/31/2009 $47,400
Biological objectives
Metrics
Manage and Administer Projects Produce Cooperative SOW Prepare a cooperative Statement of Work for the upcoming contract year that identifies research objectives and tasks completed by the IDFG, NPT, SBT, and USFWS. Identify and outline methods to abide by tribal and agency policies and procedures as required for project operational, safety, personnel, finance, and administrative actions. The first draft will be available for technical review by each agency beginning 15 September, and will be submitted to BPA by 1 October. Each agency will be responsible for constructing a budget for individual agency contracts, and providing BPA with budget accruals and invoicing estimates as requested. 9/15/2007 10/1/2009 $47,400
Biological objectives
Metrics
Produce Annual Report Produce Joint Annual Reports Prepare a cooperative annual report that documents ISS research activities supported by the IDFG, NPT, SBT, and USFWS that are associated with Chinook salmon Brood Years. This will include adult return information (spawning surveys) and juvenile production and emigration through spring of 2009. Final drafts will be submitted to the BPA by May 1. 10/1/2006 5/1/2009 $94,800
Biological objectives
Metrics
Produce Status Report Produce Quarterly Reports Update quarterly progress reports and submit within 15 days of the end of each calendar quarter. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $6,500
Biological objectives
Metrics
Produce/Submit Scientific Findings Report Prepare, submit Peer Reviewed Journal Article Prepare draft manuscript - draft preparation before significant intra-contractor technical review. Internal technical review of manuscript - submission of the manuscript for in-house, internal technical review. External technical review of manuscript - this may include submission to interagency cooperators, a request for technical review by posting on the BPA website, sending the manuscript to the COTR for review or other such requests for technical review before submission to a peer-reviewed journal. Submit manuscript - submitted to a journal for peer review and publication. Revise manuscript - manuscript has been returned for major revision. Manuscript has not been accepted by the journal for publication. Use this until the manuscript has been rejected or accepted. 1/5/2007 9/30/2009 $126,400
Biological objectives
Metrics
Analyze/Interpret Data Estimate Adult Production in ISS Study Streams Complete data analysis of adult production evaluation points collected in 2003 (redd counts, adult returns to weirs, carcass data) to estimate the following: 1) adult Chinook salmon escapement across all study streams using redds, 2) escapement by origin in select streams using weirs, 3) straying, and 4) redd production attributable to ISS and stray adults. This interim production comparison will be completed annually, with products incorporated into annual progress reports 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $126,400
Biological objectives
Estimate freshwater productivity
Estimate juvenile and adult abundance
Metrics
Analyze/Interpret Data Estimate Juvenile Production in ISS Study Streams Complete data analysis of juvenile production by estimating outmigration of naturally produced Chinook salmon. This interim production comparison will be completed annually, with products incorporated into annual progress reports. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $126,400
Biological objectives
Metrics
Analyze/Interpret Data Estimate Juvenile Survival to Lower Granite Dam Estimate minimum survival and estimated overall survival using the SURPH model to Lower Granite Dam and arrival timing at Lower Granite Dam by life stage for juvenile Chinook salmon from ISS treatment and control streams based on PIT tag detections at Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower Monumental, and McNary dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $126,461
Biological objectives
Calculate mainstem mortality
Estimate juvenile freshwater survival rate
Metrics
Analyze/Interpret Data Perform Microsatellite Parental Exclusion Tests Determine if there are statistically significant differences in the reproductive contribution between natural, ISS supplementation, and GP hatchery adults when measured in the resulting progeny. 1/1/2007 9/30/2009 $225,000
Biological objectives
Identify reproductive contribution of adults
Metrics
Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data Additional Carcass Surveys Intensify carcass surveys beyond multiple pass redd counts, remove various structures from carcasses for aging, collect length, sex, DNA, egg retention information, and examine for the presence of fin clips, coded wire tags, radio tags, VI tags, and other tags. Remove snouts from carcasses containing coded wire for laboratory analysis. Additional carcass collection effort will be provided by the following BPA funded programs: Natural Production Monitoring and Evaluation - BPA Project # 1991-073-00 (Valley Creek), Captive Rearing Program for Salmon River Chinook Salmon - BPA Project # 1997-00-100 (EFSR, WFYF), NPTH Project #: 1983 350 03 Lolo Creek, Newsome Creek, Eldorado Creek, JCAPE Project #: 1996-043-00 Johnson Creek. 7/1/2007 9/30/2009 $750,000
Biological objectives
Identify origin of adult Chinook salmon
Metrics
Primary R, M, and E Type: status and trend monitoring
Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data Collect DNA from Juvenile Chinook Salmon at ISS Traps Collect DNA samples from juvenile Chinook salmon to identify the reproductive contribution of natural, ISS, and/or GP hatchery stray origin adults and to compare genetic indices over time for supplemented and unsupplemented populations. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $50,500
Biological objectives
Identify reproductive contribution of adults
Metrics
Secondary R, M, and E Type: Uncertainties Research
Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data Collect DNA Samples from Adult Chinook Salmon at ISS Wiers Collect tissue samples for DNA analysis from all adult Chinook salmon released to spawn naturally upstream of escapement weirs. DNA samples will be used to quantify production and productivity estimates for wild/natural and supplementation adults. Samples are currently being collected and archived. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $50,500
Biological objectives
Identify origin of adult Chinook salmon
Identify reproductive contribution of adults
Metrics
Secondary R, M, and E Type: Uncertainties Research
Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data Conduct Redd Counts and Carcass Surveys Conduct redd counts and carcass surveys on all ISS study streams. Redd counts will be used as the primary measure of adult escapement since not all study streams contain weirs to intercept adults. Record redd locations and document the number of live fish and their origin (hatchery or natural) during each survey. Pertinent biological information (length, sex, DNA, retained eggs, marks/tags) will be collected from all Chinook salmon carcasses encountered. Redd counts on Herd Creek (16.4 km survey lenght) will be performed for the SBT by the Salmon River Habitata Evaluation project (Program # ) pending access to private property. NPT project BPA# 1983-350-03 conducts redd counts and carcass surveys in Lolo and Newsome Creeks and NPT project BPA# 1996-043-00 conducts redd counts and carcass surveys in Johnson Creek. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $1,264,000
Biological objectives
Estimate juvenile and adult abundance
Identify origin of adult Chinook salmon
Identify reproductive contribution of adults
Metrics
Primary R, M, and E Type: Status and Trend Monitoring
Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data Monitor Adult Escapement into Study Streams Use existing weirs and other escapement monitoring techniques to identify, collect, mark, and enumerate adults escaping into ISS study streams. Record fork length, age, marks, tags, and gender on all supplementation, general production, and wild/natural fish collected at these weirs. Release all returning wild/natural adult Chinook salmon upstream of weirs, and release up to equivalent numbers of supplementation adults. All general hatchery production fish collected at weirs on ISS treatment streams will be taken to the hatchery or released downstream of the weir. Additional adult escapement data for Lolo Creek, Eldorado Creek, and Newsome Creek provided by NPTH personnel BPA program # 1983 350 03, adult escapement data in Johnson Creek provided by JCAPE personnel BPA program # 1996 043 00. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $189,600
Biological objectives
Estimate juvenile and adult abundance
Identify origin of adult Chinook salmon
Identify reproductive contribution of adults
Metrics
Primary R, M, and E Type: Status and Trend Monitoring
Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data Operate Juvenile Screw Traps Operate juvenile screw traps in ISS study streams to estimate the number of Chinook salmon parr, pre-smolt, and smolts migrating out of ISS study streams. Record data on fork length, weight, number of juveniles captured, and marked fish recaptured to estimate brood year production. This will provide annual estimates used to test the effect of treatment over time. This WE will be conducted concurrently with WE 158 to provide marked fish to compute migration estimates. Additional juvenile production data will be provided for additional ISS study streams by the following non-ISS contracts: Johnson Creek - Johnson Creek Artificial Production Enhancement M&E Project # 1996-043-00; Lolo Creek, Eldorado Creek, and Newsome Creek - Nez Perce Tribal Hatchery Project #: 1983-350-03. This work element includes post-season repair and maintenance to screw traps and other field equipment as needed. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $632,000
Biological objectives
Metrics
Primary R, M, and E Type: Status and Trend Monitoring
Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data Provide Snouts to Laboratories for CWT Extraction and Reading Provide snouts containing CWT's collected during redd/carcass surveys to those laboratories contracted to extract, read, and upload the CWT data to state/federal/regional databases. IDFG utilizes the LSRCP CWT laboratory at the Nampa Research facility (Cooperative Agreement Number 141105J008). NPT utilizes the NPT CWT Laboratory SBT utilizes the IDFG Nampa Research CWT Lab USFWS utilizes the CWT laboratory at the IFRO office at Dworshak National Fish Hatchery. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $6,500
Biological objectives
Identify origin of adult Chinook salmon
Identify reproductive contribution of adults
Metrics
Secondary R, M, and E Type: Uncertainties Research
Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data Supplemental Data Collection Cooperative data collection and data transfer for other Columbia River basin Chinook salmon R M & E programs. 10/1/2006 10/1/2009 $20,000
Biological objectives
Delevelop smolt to adult return ratios
Estimate juvenile freshwater survival rate
Metrics
Create/Manage/Maintain Database Maintain Project Servers and Databases Upload all juvenile Chinook salmon PIT tag release files to PTAGIS throughout the field season. Retrieve interrogated PIT-tag detections from Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower Monumental and McNary dams to estimate minimum survival estimates to Lower Monumental Dam. Additional PIT tag files will be provided by the following non-ISS contracts: Johnson Creek - Johnson Creek Artificial Production Enhancement M&E Project # 1996-043-00; Lolo Creek, Eldorado Creek, and Newsome Creek - Nez Perce Tribal Hatchery Project #: 1983-350-03. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $120,000
Biological objectives
Calculate mainstem mortality
Metrics
Install Fish Monitoring Equipment Install Screw Traps and Adult Weirs Install screw traps and adult weirs on select ISS study streams to estimate juvenile production and adult escapement to these streams. Adult weirs will also be used to manage adult ISS treatments and prevent general hatchery production fish from accessing spawning areas above them. NPT project BPA# 1983-350-03 install traps and weirs on Lolo and Newsome Creeks and NPT project BPA# 1996-043-00 install weir and trap on Johnson Creek with assistance from ISS. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $189,600
Biological objectives
Estimate juvenile and adult abundance
Metrics
Mark/Tag Animals Assist BPA with PIT Tag Purchase Complete appropriate BPA and PSMFC paperwork to assure an adaquate number of PIT tags are purchased and scheduled for delivery in time for distribution to the various ISS PIT tagging locations. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $1,000
Biological objectives
Metrics
Mark/Tag Animals Mark Juvenile and Adult Chinook Salmon Tag or mark fish to obtain survival data, trap efficiencies, and population estimates. Provides for PIT tags to be detected at both juvenile and adult monitoring facilities in the Columbia River basin. Juveniles are PIT tagged in a number proportional to the daily catch. Juvenile emigration from each stream is estimated prior to the season, and, based on the number of PIT tags available, a tagging "schedule" is estblished where every "Xth" fish is tagged to distribute PIT tagging effort over the entire season. Tag usage is monitored throughout the season to ensure the number of juveniles tagged is tracking with the numbers projected. When deviations are detected, the interval between juveniles tagged is adjusted accordingly. In streams where sufficient numbers of juvenles large enough for PIT tagging are not available, Bismark-Brown dye or fin clips may be used to estimate trap efficiency. However, juveniles from these streams are PIT tagged as well for survival and migration timing estimates through the FCRPS. All adult Chinook salmon passed above weirs all recieve an opercal punch, which allows for an estimate of escapement and weir efficiency. NPT BPA Project # 1983-350-03 will mark in Lolo Creek, Eldorado Creek, and Newsome Creek. NPT BPA Project # 1996-043-00 will mark in Johnson Creek. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $1,390,000
Biological objectives
Delevelop smolt to adult return ratios
Estimate juvenile and adult abundance
Estimate juvenile freshwater survival rate
Metrics
Submit/Acquire Data Manage PIT Tag Files Upload all juvenile Chinook salmon PIT tag release files to PTAGIS throughout the field season within 3 days of tagging. Retrieve interrogated PIT-tag detections from Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower Monumental and McNary dams to estimate minimum survival estimates to Lower Monumental Dam. Additional PIT tag files will be provided by the following non-ISS contracts: Johnson Creek - Johnson Creek Artificial Production Enhancement M&E Project # 1996-043-00; Lolo Creek, Eldorado Creek, and Newsome Creek - Nez Perce Tribal Hatchery Project #: 1983-350-03. 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $379,200
Biological objectives
Delevelop smolt to adult return ratios
Estimate juvenile freshwater survival rate
Metrics
Submit/Acquire Data Upload ISS Juvenile Chinook Salmon Data to Centralized Database Transfer juvenile data collected each year that has been through QA/QC inspection to IDFG Nampa Research for upload to centralized ISS databases on the program website 10/1/2006 9/30/2009 $126,400
Biological objectives
Metrics

Section 8. Budgets

Itemized estimated budget
ItemNoteFY07FY08FY09
Personnel SBT Contract & Budget $111,000 $116,550 $122,378
Fringe Benefits SBT Contract & Budget $31,635 $33,217 $34,878
Supplies SBT Contract & Budget $7,000 $7,350 $7,500
Travel SBT Contract & Budget $55,165 $57,733 $60,957
Capital Equipment SBT Contract & Budget $0 $1,000 $1,000
Overhead SBT Contract & Budget (19.63%) $40,200 $41,400 $43,400
Personnel IDFG Contract & Budget $331,600 $348,200 $365,600
Fringe Benefits IDFG Contract & Budget $273,500 $287,200 $301,500
Travel IDFG Contract & Budget $85,000 $89,200 $93,700
Supplies IDFG Contract & Budget $114,500 $120,200 $126,200
Overhead IDFG Contract & Budget (21%) $168,950 $177,400 $186,270
Capital Equipment IDFG Contract & Budget $5,000 $5,000 $10,000
Other IDFG Contract & Budget - PIT tags $62,700 $65,900 $69,200
Personnel NPT Contract & Budget $254,342 $269,602 $285,778
Capital Equipment NPT Contract & Budget $71,708 $76,011 $80,572
Supplies NPT Contract & Budget $55,685 $44,686 $45,974
Travel NPT Contract & Budget $37,922 $39,059 $40,231
Overhead NPT Contract & Budget (29.65%) $130,649 $133,899 $141,172
Other NPT Contract & Budget (PIT tags) $18,810 $18,810 $18,810
Other NPT Contract & Budget (subcontracts) $6,500 $6,500 $6,500
Fringe Benefits NPT Locality Adjustment (McCall) $20,770 $20,770 $20,770
Personnel USFWS Contract & Budget $62,858 $66,001 $69,301
Fringe Benefits USFWS Contract & Budget $30,960 $32,508 $34,133
Supplies USFWS Contract & Budget $5,194 $5,454 $5,726
Travel USFWS Contract & Budget $2,079 $2,183 $2,292
Overhead USFWS Contract & Budget (24.72%) $26,135 $27,442 $28,814
Other USFWS Contract & Budget (subcontract) $4,621 $4,852 $5,095
Totals $2,014,483 $2,098,127 $2,207,751
Total estimated FY 2007-2009 budgets
Total itemized budget: $6,320,361
Total work element budget: $6,320,361
Cost sharing
Funding source/orgItem or service providedFY 07 est value ($)FY 08 est value ($)FY 09 est value ($)Cash or in-kind?Status
Totals $0 $0 $0

Section 9. Project future

FY 2010 estimated budget: $6,636,380
FY 2011 estimated budget: $6,636,380
Comments: Estimated budget includes IDFG, NPT, SBT, and USFWS budgets combined

Future O&M costs: Through these two fiscal years, we do not anticipate O&M costs to rise in excess of inflation.

Termination date: 12/31/2016
Comments: Adult monitoring and evaluation (weirs) will terminate in 2012. Juvenile monitoring and evaluation will conclude with BY12 smolt collection in 2014 ISS operations for 2015-2016 will be for analysis and writing

Final deliverables: Completion Report 1 or more peer-reviewed publications

Section 10. Narrative and other documents


Reviews and recommendations

FY07 budget FY08 budget FY09 budget Total budget Type Category Recommendation
NPCC FINAL FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS (Oct 23, 2006) [full Council recs]
$1,950,306 $1,950,306 $1,950,306 $5,850,918 Expense ProvinceExpense Fund
NPCC DRAFT FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS (Sep 15, 2006) [full Council recs]
$131,847 $0 $0 $0 ProvinceExpense
Comments: Four sponsors and contracts for this one project (USFWS).
NPCC DRAFT FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS (Sep 15, 2006) [full Council recs]
$532,209 $532,209 $532,209 $0 ProvinceExpense
Comments: Four sponsors and contracts for this one project (NPT).
NPCC DRAFT FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS (Sep 15, 2006) [full Council recs]
$245,000 $245,000 $245,000 $0 ProvinceExpense
Comments: Four sponsors and contracts for this one project (SBT).
NPCC DRAFT FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS (Sep 15, 2006) [full Council recs]
$1,041,250 $1,173,097 $1,173,097 $0 ProvinceExpense
Comments: Four sponsors and contracts for this one project (IDFG).

ISRP PRELIMINARY REVIEW (Jun 2, 2006)

Recommendation: Fundable (Qualified)

NPCC comments: This is an important project entering a final data collection phase, which will carry important implications for using supplementation as a strategy and for using large-scale ecosystem experiments in the Columbia River Basin. The ISRP reviewed a portion of the ISS in December 2005. The ISRP continues to recommend that they include an analysis of the data as an observational study using regression models. They have moved from hypothesis testing to a modeling approach. They are using a statistician from U of I that is highly qualified. They should continue to take note of advice from their statistician. The technical explanation of supplementation was adequate but not remarkable. The important measures needed to evaluate supplementation, the practical difficulty of collecting the data under the environmental conditions in the Columbia River basin, and the challenges in implementing the initial ISS design are not well developed. A primary recurring ISRP concern is the adequacy of redd and carcass data. The redd data alone is of limited utility, which they recognize. They need to assess the carcasses originating from the various combinations of natural and hatchery fish. Precision and bias of the carcass counts needs to be measured regularly. The FY07-09 proposal is consistent with the material last reviewed. The ISRP recommends that future funding beyond FY08 be contingent ("Qualified") on reporting of results from 2006-2007 returns, in 2008, coupled with a presentation to reviewers. The ISS plans to follow the last cohorts, plus a year of subsequent natural production. Thus, the project should be complete by 2016. The history of the project is adequately described and the difficulties in maintaining the study design are identified. The project proponents have not taken the lead in making progress of the ISS widely known. Modifications in the statistical design are largely a product of prodding by the ISRP with support of the Council. Some of the biological objectives in Section 6, such as "assess out of basin factors affecting smolt outmigration" and "calculate mainstem mortality" do not seem particularly germane to the evaluation of supplementation. At this point in the ISS, the critical element is estimating adult abundance and partitioning it and subsequent production by adult source - natural adults, supplementation adults, and general production hatchery adults. This is not a simple straightforward task but is essential to a robust statistical evaluation of the ISS and subsequent interpretation for management decisions. It is not entirely clear from the work elements that the ISS proponents have fully considered and addressed the recommendations from the most recent ISRP review. Addressing bias and other difficulties with redd and carcass counts is not well developed; proponents are advised to review the approaches in project 199107300 Idaho Natural Production Monitoring. There is a disappointing lack of peer reviewed literature submission; dissemination of information from this project has been poor. If robust data is collected and then appropriately analyzed, this project will provide benefit to the region by helping clarify whether there are benefits from supplementation. If there are adverse effects to non-target populations they have occurred already but are not quantified.


ISRP FINAL REVIEW (Aug 31, 2006)

Recommendation: Fundable (Qualified)

NPCC comments: This is an important project entering a final data collection phase, which will carry important implications for using supplementation as a strategy and for using large-scale ecosystem experiments in the Columbia River Basin. The ISRP reviewed a portion of the ISS in December 2005. The ISRP continues to recommend that they include an analysis of the data as an observational study using regression models. They have moved from hypothesis testing to a modeling approach. They are using a statistician from U of I that is highly qualified. They should continue to take note of advice from their statistician. The technical explanation of supplementation was adequate but not remarkable. The important measures needed to evaluate supplementation, the practical difficulty of collecting the data under the environmental conditions in the Columbia River basin, and the challenges in implementing the initial ISS design are not well developed. A primary recurring ISRP concern is the adequacy of redd and carcass data. The redd data alone is of limited utility, which they recognize. They need to assess the carcasses originating from the various combinations of natural and hatchery fish. Precision and bias of the carcass counts needs to be measured regularly. The FY07-09 proposal is consistent with the material last reviewed. The ISRP recommends that future funding beyond FY08 be contingent ("Qualified") on reporting of results from 2006-2007 returns, in 2008, coupled with a presentation to reviewers. The ISS plans to follow the last cohorts, plus a year of subsequent natural production. Thus, the project should be complete by 2016. The history of the project is adequately described and the difficulties in maintaining the study design are identified. The project proponents have not taken the lead in making progress of the ISS widely known. Modifications in the statistical design are largely a product of prodding by the ISRP with support of the Council. Some of the biological objectives in Section 6, such as "assess out of basin factors affecting smolt outmigration" and "calculate mainstem mortality" do not seem particularly germane to the evaluation of supplementation. At this point in the ISS, the critical element is estimating adult abundance and partitioning it and subsequent production by adult source - natural adults, supplementation adults, and general production hatchery adults. This is not a simple straightforward task but is essential to a robust statistical evaluation of the ISS and subsequent interpretation for management decisions. It is not entirely clear from the work elements that the ISS proponents have fully considered and addressed the recommendations from the most recent ISRP review. Addressing bias and other difficulties with redd and carcass counts is not well developed; proponents are advised to review the approaches in project 199107300 Idaho Natural Production Monitoring. There is a disappointing lack of peer reviewed literature submission; dissemination of information from this project has been poor. If robust data is collected and then appropriately analyzed, this project will provide benefit to the region by helping clarify whether there are benefits from supplementation. If there are adverse effects to non-target populations they have occurred already but are not quantified.