FY 2002 Mountain Snake proposal 199700100

Section 1. General administrative information
Section 2. Past accomplishments
Section 3. Relationships to other projects
Section 4. Budgets for planning/design phase
Section 5. Budgets for construction/implementation phase
Section 6. Budgets for operations/maintenance phase
Section 7. Budgets for monitoring/evaluation phase
Section 8. Budget summary

Reviews and Recommendations

Additional documents

Title	Type
199700100 Narrative	Narrative
199700100 Sponsor Response to the ISRP	Response
199700100 Powerpoint Presentation	Powerpoint Presentation
Mountain Snake: Salmon Subbasin Map with BPA Fish & Wildlife Projects	Subbasin Map
Mountain Snake: Salmon Subbasin Map with BPA Fish & Wildlife Projects	Subbasin Map

Section 1. Administrative

Proposal title	Captive Rearing Project for Salmon River Chinook Salmon
Proposal ID	199700100
Organization	Idaho Department of Fish and Game and Idaho Office of Species Conservation (IDFG/IOSC)
Proposal contact person or principal investigator
Name	Paul A. Kline
Mailing address	1800 Trout Road Eagle, ID 83616
Phone / email	2089394114 / pkline@idfg.state.id.us
Manager authorizing this project	Steve Yundt
Review cycle	Mountain Snake
Province / Subbasin	Mountain Snake / Salmon
Short description	Develop captive rearing techniques for chinook salmon and evaluate the success and utility of captive rearing for maintaining stock structure and conservation levels of adult spawners in three drainages.
Target species	Spring/summer chinook salmon

Project location

Latitude	Longitude	Description
44.8699	-113.6256	Lemhi River near the mouth of Hayden Creek
44.3514	-114.7266	West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River near its mouth
44.1075	-114.4235	East Fork Salmon River near hatchery weir and trap

Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)

Sponsor-reported:

RPA
Hatchery RPA Action 170
Hatchery RPA Action 173
Hatchery RPA Action 174
RM&E RPA Action 182
RM&E RPA Action 184
Action 169
Action 175
Action 177
Action 178
Action 179

Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:

Reviewing agency	Action #	BiOp Agency	Description
NMFS	Action 176	NMFS	BPA shall, in coordination with NMFS, USFWS, and the relevant state and Tribal comanagers, fund the development of HGMPs for the Grande Ronde and Tucannon spring/summer chinook safety-net programs.
NMFS	Action 177	NMFS	In 2002, BPA shall begin to implement and sustain NMFS-approved, safety-net projects.
NMFS/BPA	Action 177	NMFS	In 2002, BPA shall begin to implement and sustain NMFS-approved, safety-net projects.

Section 2. Past accomplishments

Year	Accomplishment
1995	Collected brood year 1994 spring chinook salmon parr from the Lemhi River, East Fork Salmon River, and West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River, and captive-reared fish.
1996	Collected brood year 1995 spring chinook salmon juveniles from the Lemhi River and reared. Continued rearing brood year 1994 fish.
	Less than 6% overall precocial (age 2) male maturation in brood year 1994 stocks.
	Successful transfer of brood year 1994 fish to saltwater (at smoltification).
1997	Less than 30% age-3 male maturation in brood year 1994 stocks.
	Successful outplanting of up to four, brood year 1994, three-year-old male chinook salmon to source streams. Movement and behavior documented.
	Milt from brood year 1994 East Fork Salmon River and West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River male chinook salmon cryopreserved.
	Less than 6% male maturation in brood year 1995 Lemhi River chinook salmon (age 2).
	Collection of brood year 1996 spring chinook salmon parr from the Lemhi River and West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River.
	Successful transfer of brood year 1995 fish to saltwater (at smoltification).
1998	Age 4 maturation in East Fork Salmon River (59%), West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River (93%), and Lemhi River (74%) brood year 1994 stocks.
	Less than 26% male maturation in brood year 1995 Lemhi River stock (age 3).
	Outplanted captive reared maturing chinook adults (73 and 44 maturing adults to Lemhi River system and West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River, respectively).
	Conducted intensive evaluations of spawning-related behavior.
	Documented 25 and 4 redds (constructed by captive program chinook) in the Lemhi River system and West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River, respectivly.
	Milt from brood year 1994, 1995, and 1996 captive chinook cryopreserved.
	Successful hatchery pilot investigations of gamete quality and survival to the eyed-egg stage for spawn products produced by Lehmi River (brood year 1994, 1995), East Fork Salmon River (brood year 1994), and West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River.
	Eyed-eggs from gamete quality investigations outplanted to Lemhi River (9,320), West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River (3,393), and East Fork Salmon River (17,279).
	Collection of brood year 1997 spring chinook salmon parr from the Lemhi River and West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River.
	Successful transfer of brood year 1996 fish to saltwater (at smoltification).
1999	Age 5 maturation of brood year 1994 captive reared stocks and age 4 maturation of brood year 1995 captive reared stocks.
	Cryopreserved milt from mature brood year 1996 and brood year 1997 West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River chinook salmon.
	Collected brood year 1998 natural parr from the Lemhi, West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon, and East Fork Salmon rivers.
	Developed hydraulic sampling methods for collecting eyed-eggs from chinook redds to source program fish.
	Collected brood year 1999 eyed-eggs from natural spawners in the East Fork Salmon and Lemhi rivers using hydraulic methods to establish captive populations.
	Produced brood year 1999 West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River and East Fork Salmon River safety-net brood stocks.
	Eyed-eggs produced from safety net spawning distributed as follows: 2,297 outplanted to West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River, 1,038 outplanted to East Fork Salmon River, and approximately 300 eyed-eggs from each stock retained to develop safety net groups.
	Successful hatch and early rearing of fish for captive populations established from eyed-egg collections and safety-net populations.
	Outplanted captive reared maturing chinook adults (62 and seven maturing adults to Lemhi River system and East Fork Salmon River, respectively.
	Conducted intensive evaluations of spawning-related behavior in Bear Valley Creek - Lemhi River system (cooperatively with NMFS Resource Enhancement & Utilization Technologies Division research staff.
	Recorded 433 unique observations of outplanted chinook salmon in Bear Valley Creek - Lemhi River system.
	Recorded 30 direct obsevations of chinook salmon spawning in Bear Valley Creek - Lemhi River system (31 redds identified).
	Successful transfer of brood year 1997 fish to saltwater (at smoltification).
2000	Age 5 maturation of brood year 1995 and age 4 maturation of brood year 1996 captive reared stocks.
	Crypreserved milt from mature brood year 1997 West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River chinook and brood year 1998 West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River, East Fork Salmon River, and Lemhi River chinook.
	Collected brood year 2000 eyed-eggs from natural chinook spawners in the East Fork Salmon, Yankee Fork Salmon, and West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon rivers.
	Successful hatch and early rearing of captive populations established from eyed-egg collections.
	Outplanted 72 captive reared maturing chinook adults to Big Springs Creek, a tributary of the Lemhi River.
	Eyed-eggs from gamete quality investigations outplanted to West Fork Yankee Fork Salmon River (1,266).
	Conducted intensive evaluations of spawning-related behavior in Big Springs Creek - Lemhi River system.
	Identified 17 excavation sites and 15 confirmed redds (constructed by captive chinook outplants).
	Successful transfer of brood year 1998 fish to saltwater (at smoltification).
	Completed draft population viability assessment for Snake River chinook salmon.
2001	Initiation of cooperative research (with NMFS Resource Enhancement & Utilization Technologies Division staff) to quantify maturation timing and gamete development in captive-reared and ocean-returning chinook salmon adults
	Initiation of research to evaluate the effects of water temperature on maturation timing in captive-reared chinook salmon.
	Successful hatch and early rearing of captive populations established from eyed-egg collections.
	Successful transfer of brood year 1999 fish to saltwater (at smoltification).

Section 3. Relationships to other projects

Project ID	Title	Description
199606700	Manchester Spring Chinook Broodstock Project	This NMFS project complements IDFG Project 199700100 by sharing fish culture responsibility (seawater) for captive chinook salmon. This project serves to also reduce the risk of catastrophic loss.
199305600	Assessment of Captive Brood Stock Techniques	This NMFS project develops information needed to overcome some of the problems that limit the development of viable broodstock adults and progeny.
198909600	Genetic Monitoring and Evaluation of Snake River Salmon and Steelhead	This NMFS project provides genetic analysis of brood stock and wild chinook salmon.
199105500	NATURES	This NMFS project develops and evaluates fish culture techniques. Topics that have direct bearing on the IDFG captive chinook proposal include exercise training and live food training in captive populations.
199009300	Genetic Analysis of Oncorhynchus Nerka - modified to include chinook salmon	This University of Idaho project provides comprehensive genetics support to Project 199700100.
199107200	Redfish Lake Sockeye Salmon Captive Brood Stock Program	This IDFG project shares facility resources and personnel with Project 199700100. Project responsibilities overlap and complement eachother.
199705700	Salmon River Production Program	This Shoshone-Bannock Tribes project assists the IDFG captive chinook project with the out planting of eggs from hatchery spawning investigations. The SBT provides additional assistance with adult out plants and juvenile production assessments.
200001900	Tucannon River Spring Chinook Captive Broodstock Program	This WDFW project develops captive broodstock techniques that are relevant to the IDFG captive chinook program.
199604400	Grande Ronde Basin Spring Chinook Captive Broodstock Program	This ODFW program provides complimentary information from captive broodstock efforts inplace to maintain and rebuild three stocks of spring chinook salmon in the Grande Ronde River basin of Oregon.

Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost
3. Complete NPPC four-step process to initiate artificial propagation safety net programs for spring/summer chinook salmon	A. Complete population viability assessment (extinction risk analysis, step 1) initiated in FY01.	1	$7,800
	B. Develop intervention options (step 2).	1	$11,400
	C. Conduct benefit-risk analyses for proposed strategies (step 3).	1	$14,800
	D. Develop HGMP's (step 4) to guide implementation of safety net projects.	1	$11,410

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
3. Objective will continue as "construction/implementation" phase.			$0

Outyear budgets for Planning and Design phase

Section 5. Budget for Construction and Implementation phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost
1. Produce captive-reared adult chinook salmon with morphological, physiological, and behavioral characteristics similar to naturally produced fish.	A. Maintain facilities to produce captive-reared adult chinook salmon and attain objectives.	ongoing	$81,905
	B. Modify facilities (hatchery building well field) to meet water demands, and life support system safety requirements to meet basic program rearing needs to atain objectives.	1	$106,000
	C. Develop final costs and modification plans to enclose outside raceways, provide photoperiod control, and provide additional chilled water capability to meet basic program rearing needs to atain objectives.	3	$97,000
	D. Collect fish/eggs from three stocks to initiate rearing groups. Rear captive chinook salmon through maturation. Compare captive-reared adults to wild/natural conspecifics.	ongoing	$122,521
	E. Monitor and adaptively manage culture protocols as they relate to fish survival, fish growth, and fish maturation.	ongoing	$41,030
	F. PIT tag and visual implant tag all fish to facilitate poulation isolation and tracking during captive culture.	ongoing	$13,100
	G. Cryopreserve milt from male captive chinook salmon as needed to preserve future options.	ongoing	$10,170
2. Evaluate spawning behavior and successof out planted (captive-reared) adults.	A. Tag adults with externally visible tags prior to out planting and radio-tag a resonable number of fish for field tracking.	ongoing	$6,750
	B. Out plant maturing captive-reared chinook salmon to appropriate stream study sections.	ongoing	$12,350
	C. Monitor and document movement, distribution, behavior, and spawning success of out planted fish.	ongoing	$80,630
	D. Identify and document location of radio-tagged fish daily.	ongoing	$39,612
	E. Map redd locations and note observed spawning pairings.	ongoing	$35,550
	F. Hydraulically sample completed redds and perform snorkel surveys to verify and estimate production.	ongoing	$5,920
	G. Evaluate gamete quality and survival to the eyed-egg stage of development.	ongoing	$7,305
4. Information/Technology transfer.	A. Participate in Technical Oversight Committee process.	ongoing	$20,876
	B. Newtork with technical experts on issues related to fish culture, genetics, pathology, fish maturation phisology, and monitoring and evaluation	ongoing	$6,472
	C. Develop cooperative program management plan.	ongoing	$2,965
	D. Coordinate information dissemination with project cooperators.	ongoing	$2,516
	E. Provide written activity reports to satisfy the needs and requirements of IDFG, the technical oversight committee, NMFS, and BPA.	ongoing	$12,400

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
1. Produce captive-reared adult chinook salmon with morphological, physiological, and behavioral characteristics similar to naturally produced fish.	2003	2006	$1,717,450
2. Evaluate spawning behavior and success of out planted (captive-reared) adualts.	2003	2006	$851,358
3. Implementation phase of NPPC four-step process to initiate artificial propagation safety net programs for spring/summer chinook salmon	2003	2006	$2,900,000
4. Information/Technology transfer.	2003	2006	$204,690

Outyear budgets for Construction and Implementation phase

FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006
$1,800,000	$1,500,000	$1,300,000	$1,200,000

Section 6. Budget for Operations and Maintenance phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost	Subcontractor

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost

Outyear budgets for Operations and Maintenance phase

Section 7. Budget for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost	Subcontractor

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost

Outyear budgets for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

Section 8. Estimated budget summary

Itemized budget

Item	Note	FY 2002 cost
Personnel	FTE: 2.5 permanent, 3.9 temporary	$178,672
Fringe		$58,960
Supplies		$209,200
Travel	Technical meetings, fish transfers, workshops	$13,800
Indirect		$103,600
Capital	Water chilling, pumping, and building acquisitions and improvements	$184,000
PIT tags	# of tags: 1000	$2,250
		$750,482

Total estimated budget

Total FY 2002 cost	$750,482
Amount anticipated from previously committed BPA funds	$0
Total FY 2002 budget request	$750,482
FY 2002 forecast from 2001	$515,000
% change from forecast	45.7%

Reason for change in estimated budget

The Fiscal Year 2002 budget reflects increased costs associated with hatchery facility maintenance and equipment repair, fixed operational costs, hatchery water system and building modification costs, and chinook out planting costs . Details are presented in Part 2, Section f. of this proposal.

Reason for change in scope

No change

Cost sharing

Organization	Item or service provided	Amount	Cash or in-kind
Idaho Department of Fish and Game	Cost sharing with Project No. 199107200 for Eagle Hatchery water system modification costs	$57,000	in-kind

Reviews and recommendations

This information was not provided on the original proposals, but was generated during the review process.

REVIEW:
ISRP Preliminary Review (ISRP 2001-9)

Recommendation:
Fundable only if response is adequate

Date:
Sep 28, 2001

Comment:

A response is needed. Reviewers appreciate sponsor's effort to review what has happened in past, and the detailed presentation of results and conclusions to date. The project could benefit significantly, however, by including evaluation of performance (all kinds) of the hatchery-produced fish.

The sponsors need to explain what is to be different about fish now being produced so that there is some reason to do more assessment.

The project seems to have some inconsistent elements. For example, the goal is to develop captive rearing techniques. Hasn't NMFS been doing that with Puget Sound chinook salmon for 20 or more years? An argument for initiating the project was to preclude loss of important sub-populations of chinook salmon. By stocking experimental fish in Bear Valley Creek, not one of the donor streams, isn't the project potentially increasing jeopardy for the sub-population inhabiting Bear Valley Creek? Also, why, in a project to develop rearing techniques was it necessary to use three sub-populations?

The project goal was do develop culture techniques, and to assess the spawning success in nature of the fish produced. Although the growth and survival of the experimental fish has not been comparable to fish produced in nature, hasn't that goal been met? It now seems the goal has changed to one of improving growth, survival, and performance of the fish produced. Why is this new goal necessary? If it is necessary, do growth, survival, and performance of the fish produced have to be comparable to that of wild fish? Please explain your intent here.

You propose to " ...complete NPPC [NMFS] 4-step process to initiate artificial propagation safety net programs for spring/summer chinook salmon. If this is now an implementation project, isn't it premature in the 4-step process?

One identified task is to develop HGMPs. Will this be done in collaboration with other proposals to develop HGMPs (e.g., for hatcheries in the LSRCP)? If not, why not?

REVIEW:
CBFWA Funding Recommendation

Recommendation:
High Priority

Date:
Nov 30, 2001

Comment:

The results from this work will significantly benefit the target populations. This project has had significant peer review and is guided by a technical oversight committee. This project is considered a BASE project by NMFS in regards to the 2000 Biological Opinion. This project should eventually be tied into the Safety Net Artificial Production Program (SNAPP) process.

REVIEW:
ISRP Final Review (ISRP 2001-12A)

Recommendation:
Fund

Date:
Dec 21, 2001

Comment:

Fundable, but low priority - Sponsors provided reasonable and detailed answers to reviewers' questions and comments. Questions remain, however, about the need to alter the performance traits of the captive brood to make them similar to fish in nature. These characters are largely dependent on environment so characteristics of fish reared in hatcheries will reflect those conditions, and of fish produced in nature will reflect those conditions. Detailed and careful work to produce fish with similar characteristics from either set of conditions is certain to require a continuing, and long-term effort, and in the view of some reviewers, perhaps a flawed strategy. Sponsors need to reassess what they are doing in his project. It appears from the review that the project will never be "complete."

REVIEW:
NMFS Review

Recommendation:

Date:
Feb 1, 2002

Comment:

Statement of Potential Biological Benefit to ESU
Intended to restore high-risk chinook populations and test captive-rearing techniques

Comments
This project has tested "captive rearing" of fish from natural parr or eggs, that are subsequently released for natural spawning as adults, as opposed to "captive broodstock" as in some other chinook and sockeye programs. These populations should be evaluated under SNAPP and future actions guided by the review.

Already ESA Req? No

Biop? Yes

REVIEW:
BPA Funding Recommendation

Recommendation:
A Conditonal

Date:
Feb 11, 2002

Comment:

Recommend contingent upon reassessment of objectives and full integration with SNAPP for implementation of RPA 175.

BPA RPA RPM:
175

NMFS RPA/USFWS RPM:
base

REVIEW:
NWPPC Funding Recommendation

Recommendation:
Fund

Date:
Apr 19, 2002

Comment:

REVIEW:
BPA Funding Decision

Recommendation:
Fund

Date:
Jun 13, 2002

Comment:

Fund to implement RPA 177, contingent upon meeting NPPC's requirements for captive brood projects.

REVIEW:
NWPPC Funding Recommendation

Recommendation:
Fund

Date:
Sep 20, 2003

Comment:

Waiting on contract renewal. Increases to offset increases associated with indirect costs/benefits/ facility O&M needs, chiller compressor motor, fleet increases, Captive project, issue 12. Draft submittal received.

REVIEW:
Project Sponsor Request for FY04-05

Recommendation:

Date:
Sep 20, 2003

Comment:

Increases needed to offset increased costs associated with employee salary and benefit rates, vehicle fleet rental rates, special-use vehicle (e.g., backhoe, tractor, cart) rental rates, fish transportation truck rental rates, computer equipment rental rates, and utility charges (added one new pumping system and additional chiller capacity). Scheduled replacement of chiller compressor motors.

REVIEW:
NW Power and Conservation Council's FY 2006 Project Funding Review

Funding category:
expense

Date:
May 2005

FY05 NPCC start of year:	FY06 NPCC staff preliminary:	FY06 NPCC July draft start of year:
$509,000	$509,000	$509,000

Sponsor comments: See comment at Council's website