FY 2000 proposal 199000500

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199000500 Narrative Narrative
199000500 Sponsor Response to the ISRP Response

Section 1. Administrative

Proposal titleUmatilla Hatchery Monitoring and Evaluation
Proposal ID199000500
OrganizationOregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)
Proposal contact person or principal investigator
NameRichard Carmichael
Mailing address211 Inlow Hall, EOU, 1410 ā€œLā€ Avenue LaGrande, OR 97850
Phone / email5419623777 / odfw2@eosc.osshe.edu
Manager authorizing this project
Review cycleFY 2000
Province / SubbasinColumbia Plateau / Umatilla
Short descriptionEvaluate juvenile rearing, marking, tagging, survival, stock life history, fish health, mass marking, straying, sport fishing and catch contribution for salmon and steelhead reared in oxygen supplemented and standard raceways at Umatilla Hatchery.
Target speciesSpring Chinook Salmon, Fall Chinook Salmon, Summer Steelhead
Project location
LatitudeLongitudeDescription
Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)

Sponsor-reported:

RPA

Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:

Reviewing agencyAction #BiOp AgencyDescription

Section 2. Past accomplishments

YearAccomplishment
1996 Completed tagging, growth, and juvenile migration monitoring for five broods of subyearling fall chinook salmon (CHF0) reared in Michigan (MI) and Oregon (OR) raceways; coded-wire-tag (CWT) recovery from adults has been completed for two broods.
1998 Completed tagging, growth, and juvenile migration monitoring for two broods of CHF0 reared at three different densities; CWT recovery is incomplete for all broods.
1998 Completed tagging and juvenile migration monitoring for two broods of yearling fall chinook salmon (CHF1) reared in MI and OR raceways at Umatilla Hatchery and seven broods reared at other hatcheries; CWT recovery is incomplete for all broods.
1998 Completed seven years of marking and wire-tagging fall chinook salmon (all rearing strategies) to monitor straying rates into Snake River.
1998 Completed marking and wire-tagging of three broods of CHF0 to determine effects of mark and tag on smolt-to-adult survival; CWT recovery was completed in 1998.
1998 Completed tagging, growth, and juvenile migration monitoring for three broods of subyearling spring salmon (CHS0) reared in MI and/or OR raceways and released in the spring; CWT recovery for two broods was completed in 1998.
1998 Completed tagging and juvenile migration monitoring for three broods of fall-released (CHS0) reared at Umatilla and Bonneville hatcheries; CWT recovery for the first brood was completed in 1998.
1998 Completed tagging and juvenile migration monitoring for three broods of yearling spring chinook salmon (CHS1) reared in MI and OR raceways and released in the spring; CWT recovery for the first brood was completed in 1998.
1998 Completed tagging and juvenile migration monitoring for five broods of spring-released CHS1 reared concurrently at Umatilla Hatchery and Bonneville or Carson or Little White Salmon hatcheries; CWT recovery for one brood was completed in 1998.
1998 Completed tagging, growth, and juvenile migration monitoring for seven broods of steelhead (STS) reared in MI raceways; CWT recovery for three broods was completed in 1998.
1998 Completed seven years of weekly water quality monitoring in MI and OR raceways associated with varying fish production strategies.
1998 Completed six years of salmon and steelhead creel surveys and harvest estimates for Umatilla River sport fishery.
1998 Completed six years of Hatchery Fish Production planning and coordination activities for Umatilla Basin.
1998 Completed six years of fish health and disease monitoring for fish released in the Umatilla River.

Section 3. Relationships to other projects

Project IDTitleDescription
8903500 Umatilla Hatchery O&M Rearing facility for test fish.
8343500 Umatilla Satellit Facilities O&M Rearing and acclimation sites.
8802200 Umatilla Fish Passage Operations This project provides low water passage for fish in the Umatilla River monitors fish passage facility operation, and collects information on adult fish trapped at river mile 3.0.
843600 Umatilla Fish Passage Facility O&M Coordination
871001 Enhance Anadromous Fish Habitat Information exchange
8902401 Umatilla RiverJuvenile Salmonid Outmigration and Survival M&E
9000501 Umatilla River Natural Production M&E
8343500 Umatilla Hatchery Satellite Facilities O&M
8903500 Umatilla Hatchery O&M
20516 Umatilla Subbasin

Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase

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Section 5. Budget for Construction and Implementation phase

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Section 6. Budget for Operations and Maintenance phase

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Section 7. Budget for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

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Section 8. Estimated budget summary

Itemized budget
ItemNoteFY 2000 cost
Personnel costs are for FY99 $228,393
Fringe costs are for FY99 $85,321
Supplies costs are for FY99 $176,746
Capital costs are for FY99 $13,256
PIT tags 10,000 $29,000
Travel costs are for FY99 $15,550
Indirect costs are for FY99 $173,322
Other costs are for FY99 $0
$721,588
Total estimated budget
Total FY 2000 cost$721,588
Amount anticipated from previously committed BPA funds$0
Total FY 2000 budget request$721,588
FY 2000 forecast from 1999$0
% change from forecast0.0%
Cost sharing
OrganizationItem or service providedAmountCash or in-kind
Other budget explanation

Schedule Constraints: Hatchery water shortages and low egg availability may restrict the number of experiments conducted each year. Risks to Snake River stocks are unknown. Poor adult returns and low tag recoveries may necessitate additional releases.


Reviews and recommendations

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

Recommendation:
Fund in part at reduced level
Date:
Jun 15, 1999

Comment:

Recommendation: Fund in part at reduced level. Incorporate internal hatchery monitoring into routine operations. Establish termination dates for some procedures

Comments: Enough information now exists to make a decision about oxygen supplementation (Michigan raceways) without any further studies. There comes a time to make a decision. The monitoring and evaluation procedures described within the hatchery are routine, and ought to be a part of normal operations (e.g. monitor hatching success, growth, fish health, DO and temperature). The hatchery personnel should be collecting the information and a regionally coordinated body should be evaluating the data. The number of full time personnel requested in this proposal seems high. The Michigan raceway study takes one-third of the project budget and offers to produce little or no additional information that would affect a decision. Straying rates of these hatchery fish ought to be discussed. It is not clear that "acclimation" is accomplishing its objective; perhaps alternatives should be explored or acclimation omitted. The level of proposed field monitoring seems high. Standardized procedures should be established that are coordinated regionwide. The analysis needs to be tied to a decision analysis framework that addresses both naturally produced and hatchery fish.


Recommendation:
Fund
Date:
Aug 20, 1999

Comment:


Recommendation:
Date:
Aug 20, 1999

Comment:

Technical Criteria 1: Met? yes -

Programmatic Criteria 2: Met? yes - Well prepared.

Milestone Criteria 3: Met? yes -

Resource Criteria 4: Met? yes -


Recommendation:
Date:
Aug 20, 1999

Comment:

Reduce Objectives 10 & 11 (M&E). Low priority objectives were reduced or eliminated. General reduction in the scope of the project. Evaluation may change after decision in US v OR.
Recommendation:
Fund existing activities
Date:
Oct 29, 1999

Comment:

Fund existing activities. See programmatic recommendation for Umatilla and Walla Walla under project 8903500. Reviewers noted that a thorough response was provided that added to the justification for this work. However, an ability to detect a difference in raceway performance with respect to improving survival remains doubtful due to the variable nature of returns and uncertainties in survival estimates. Differences would have to be very large to be detectable.
Recommendation:
Fund existing activities
Date:
Nov 8, 1999

Comment:


Recommendation:
Fund
Date:
Mar 1, 2000

Comment:

[Decision made in 11-3-99 Council Meeting]; Address ISRP comments in BPA contract
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:
$572,848 $572,848 $572,848

Sponsor comments: See comment at Council's website