| Year | Accomplishment |
|---|
| 1997 |
Preliminary planning, design and environmental assessment (NEPA) documents completed for the adult trapping and juvenile acclimation/release facilities. |
| 1997 |
Land acquisition agreement for adult trapping facility through BPA Lands Division. |
| 1997 |
Operation of adult trapping facility (July-September) resulted in the capture of 27 adult spring chinook. Seven of these were collected for broodstock which resulted in 12,000 smolts for release in 1999. |
| 1997 |
Monitored and evaluated Lostine adult weir and trap |
| 1997 |
Collected baseline environmental data in the Lostine River |
| 1998 |
Completion of final design and the Environmental Assessment for the adult trapping and juvenile acclimation facilities. |
| 1998 |
Land acquisition agreement for the juvenile acclimation site through BPA Lands Division. |
| 1998 |
A comprehensive management plan was developed by the NPT and ODFW for the Lostine River which integrated conventional and captive broodstock production. |
| 1998 |
ESA Section 10 Permit Application was developed for operation of the Lostine program and submitted through BIA to NMFS. |
| 1998 |
Operation of adult trapping facility (July-September) resulted in the capture of 23 adult spring chinook. None were utilized for broodstock. |
| 1998 |
Monitored and evaluated Lostine adult weir and trap |
| 1998 |
Conducted spawning ground surveys. |
| 1998 |
Collected and analyzed baseline information on population abundance and life history characteristics of wild chinook |
| 1998 |
Collected and analyzed baseline information on environmental conditions in the Lostine River |
| 1998 |
Collected and analyzed biological data on hatchery juvenile chinook |
| 1998 |
PIT tagged 5,000 BY 1997 chinook parr at Lookingglass Hatchery |
| 1998 |
Prepared quarterly reports and presented results. |
| 1999 |
Operation of juvenile acclimation facility. Acclimated 12,000 spring chinook smolts from March 1 to April 15. Fish were volitionally released beginning April 1. |
| 1999 |
Operation of the adult trapping facility (July-September) resulted in the capture of 13 adult spring chinook. None were utilized for broodstock. |
| 1999 |
Monitored and evaluated Lostine adult weir and trap |
| 1999 |
Conducted spawning ground surveys. |
| 1999 |
Collected and analyzed baseline information on population abundance and life history characteristics of wild chinook |
| 1999 |
Collected and analyzed baseline information on environmental conditions in the Lostine River |
| 1999 |
Collected and analyzed biological data on hatchery juvenile chinook |
| 1999 |
PIT tagged 8,000 BY 1998 chinook parr at Lookingglass Hatchery |
| 1999 |
Monitored the volitional release of 12,000 BY 1997 chinook smolts from the Lostine River Acclimation Facility |
| 1999 |
Monitored the emigration of hatchery and wild smolts at the Lostine River screw trap |
| 1999 |
Prepared quarterly reports and presented results. |
| 2000 |
Operation of juvenile acclimation facility. Acclimated 35,000 spring chinook smolts (the first progeny of the captive broodstock) from February 28 to April 18. Fish were volitionally released beginning April 1. |
| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2001 cost | Subcontractor |
|---|
| 1. Project coordination |
a. Attend TOT and LSRCP AOP meetings to coordinate production planning (adult collection, spawning, incubation, rearing, acclimation and release of progeny) for conventional and captive broodstock. |
on-going |
$6,000 |
|
|
b. Provide assistance with care of Lostine River adults, spawning, incubation and rearing of progeny at Lookingglass Hatchery or other facilities (Oxbow, Irrigon, Bonneville). |
on-going |
$8,000 |
|
|
c. Develop appropriate permit applications or modifications (ESA Section 10) and biological assessments for continued implementation of GRESP. |
on-going |
$5,000 |
|
|
d. Coordinate with private landowners for operation and maintenance of trapping and acclimation facilities. |
on-going |
$1,000 |
|
|
e. Coordinate with cultural resource, construction, and engineer consultants for operation and maintenance of trapping and acclimation facilities. |
on-going |
$2,500 |
|
|
f. Coordinate with other co-managers regarding relevant management issues, through U.S. v. Oregon Production Advisory Committee and Technical Advisory Committee forums. |
on-going |
$2,500 |
|
|
g. Facilitate the use of collected data with co-managers. |
on-going |
$2,500 |
|
|
h. Develop proposals, work statements and budgets for operation of the Lostine facilities. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
|
i. Provide information for provincial scientific review of project. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
| 2. Operate and maintain a juvenile acclimation and release facility on the Lostine River. |
a. Set up/assemble and test facility in February prior to bringing fish on station. |
on-going |
$7,000 |
|
|
b. Provide pumps, generators, fuel supply, maintenance and emergency service for water supply to acclimation facility. |
on-going |
$56,400 |
Yes |
|
c. Coordinate fish delivery, fish health inspections, and release with co-managers. |
on-going |
$3,750 |
|
|
d. Staff facility 24 hours a days to perform necessary fish culture activities (i.e., feeding, cleaning, monitoring flows, temperatures, DO) and provide final rearing regime and acclimation for up to 250,000 smolts. |
on-going |
$15,050 |
|
|
e. Provide NATURES type rearing by providing adaptations to rearing containers (e.g., trees for structure, natural foods, shading). |
on-going |
$2,500 |
|
|
f. Facilitate and assist with necessary fish health, genetic, tagging sampling activities. |
on-going |
$3,750 |
|
|
g. Provide volitional release opportunity followed by forced release on appropriate dates. |
on-going |
$2,500 |
|
|
h. Disassemble facilities and equipment following release of fish, on or about April 15. |
on-going |
$8,750 |
|
|
h. Provide security and maintenance of living quarters, facility and equipment. |
on-going |
$8,181 |
|
|
i. Perform maintenance of facility property as required by agreement with landowner (e.g., fence repairs, irrigation of trees, noxious weed control). |
on-going |
$6,000 |
|
|
j. Update facility operations and routine maintenance journal. |
on-going |
$2,500 |
|
| 3. Operate and maintain portable weir/trap facilities on the Lostine River to collect spring chinook adults. |
a. Set up auxiliary trapping facility at the Clearwater Diversion structure - April to May. |
on-going |
$10,550 |
|
|
b. Set up main trapping facility as soon as flows allow - June to July. |
on-going |
$15,050 |
|
|
c. Staff facility 24 hours a day providing routine trap checks. Collect spring chinook adults for a broodstock source and assessment of adult escapement. Pass fish not selected for broodstock above the weir. |
on-going |
$53,038 |
|
|
d. Sample adults at least daily, collect mark, length, sex, spawning maturation information, and biological samples from adults trapped and opercle punch all adults released upstream of weir. Provide data to monitoring and evaluation project. |
on-going |
$6,250 |
|
|
e. Deliver necessary injections to those adults selected for broodstock. |
on-going |
$3,750 |
|
|
f. Transport adults selected for broodstock to Lookingglass Hatchery or other holding facility. Provide transportation of adults back to the Lostine River if necessary. |
on-going |
$18,000 |
|
|
h. Provide transportation of adults from weir to spawning grounds (around dewatered sections) should extreme low flow conditions exist in the Lostine River. |
on-going |
$6,300 |
|
|
i. Collect biological data on incidentally caught species (bull trout and steelhead) and provide data to monitoring and evaluation project. |
on-going |
$2,500 |
|
|
j. Disassemble facilities and equipment on or about October 1. |
on-going |
$6,750 |
|
|
k. Provide security and maintenance of living quarters, facilities and equipment. |
on-going |
$24,750 |
|
|
l. Perform maintenance of facility property as required by agreement with landowner (e.g., fence repairs, irrigation of trees, noxious weed control). |
on-going |
$6,000 |
|
|
m. Update facility operations manual and routine maintenance journal. |
on-going |
$2,500 |
|
| 4. Transfer of technology |
a. Prepare and provide quarterly reports summarizing activities accomplished during the quarter. |
on-going |
$7,500 |
|
|
b. Compile, analyze, and present results in coordination with the monitoring and evaluation project in an annual report. |
on-going |
$20,000 |
|
|
c. Present reports on project activities and findings at Annual BPA/CBFWA Project Review and other forums. |
on-going |
$7,500 |
|
| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2001 cost | Subcontractor |
|---|
| 1. Project planning and coordination. |
a. Participate in the production planning and facility development to provide physical requirements for monitoring and evaluation tasks. |
on-going |
$3,500 |
|
|
b. Coordinate research planning and activities with ODFW (spawning ground surveys, emigrant trapping, PIT tagging, and captive brood evaluations). |
on-going |
$5,000 |
|
|
c. Assist in obtaining appropriate permits requiring biological evaluation of the effects of monitoring and evaluation. |
on-going |
$2,500 |
|
|
d. Facilitate the use of collected data with co-managers. |
on-going |
$2,500 |
|
|
e. Attend TOT meetings to represent the interest of and to provide information for the Nez Perce Tribe. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
| 2. Collect baseline information on environmental conditions in the Lostine River. |
a. Monitor a constant recording thermograph to collect water temperature information near the adult trapping facility and smolt acclimation and release facility. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
|
b. Monitor staff gauge to determine water flows near the adult trapping facility and smolt acclimation and release facility. |
on-going |
$2,500 |
|
|
c. Collect on-line stream discharge information. |
on-going |
$3,500 |
|
| 3. Collect and analyze baseline information on abundance, genetic and life history characteristics of the Lostine River spring chinook salmon prior to supplementation. |
a. Installation, operation and monitoring of the portable weir/trap facility during spawning migration for assessing adult returns and broodstock collection.
|
on-going |
$5,000 |
|
|
b. Collect run timing information from adults trapped. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
|
c. Collect mark, length, sex, and spawning maturation information from adults trapped and opercle punch all adults released upstream of the weir. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
|
d. Collect life history characteristics, and migration information on steelhead and bull trout incidentally captured at the weir. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
|
e. Collect baseline genetic samples from adults collected and passed at the weir, from carcasses, and juvenile production in the hatchery that complements ongoing genetic monitoring programs. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
|
f. Analyze collected genetic samples |
on-going |
$5,000 |
Yes |
|
g. Conduct intensive multiple spawning ground surveys to bracket spawning timing, enumerate redds, live fish, and carcasses and to determine relative abundance of spawners. |
on-going |
$15,802 |
|
|
h. Collect length, sex, scales, determine percent spawned and record marks on all carcasses. Collect snouts from CWT tagged adults. |
on-going |
$4,000 |
|
|
i. Determine hatchery to wild fish ratios based on marked and unmarked carcass recoveries. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
|
j. Determine total escapement above the weir based on number of adults released above the weir and mark to unmarked ratios. |
on-going |
$4,500 |
|
|
k. Calculate the fish per redd ratio above the weir. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
| 4. Monitor and evaluate operation of adult collection (weir and trap) for adverse impacts to resident and/or anadromous fish populations in the Lostine River. |
a. Monitor upstream and downstream of the weir in regular intervals by stream side surveys to determine the presence and species composition of fish on both sides of the weir. Special attention will be given to monitoring whether spring chinook. |
on-going |
$10,000 |
|
|
b. Determine the number of chinook redds and fish in the stream reach below the weir and compare with historical records. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
| 5. Monitor and evaluate conventional smolt production. |
a. PIT tag juvenile chinook at Lookingglass Hatchery. |
on-going |
$26,000 |
|
|
b. Estimate marking efficiencies/retention rates prior to release. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
|
c. Assist ODFW with the Lostine River smolt trap operations. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
|
d. Estimate survival of smolt releases to Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower Monumental, and McNary dams using the SURPH.1 model. |
on-going |
$4,000 |
|
|
e. Determine smolt size influence on downstream survival. |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
|
f. Compare acclimation release strategies for smolt to adult survival |
on-going |
$3,000 |
|
|
g. Compare wild and hatchery migration characteristics. |
on-going |
$4,000 |
|
| 6. Technology Transfer |
a. Prepare and provide quarterly reports summarizing activities accomplished during the quarter associated with the Lostine River spring chinook supplementation project. Report will be submitted 15 days after the end of the quarter. |
on-going |
$25,000 |
|
|
b. Compile, analyze and present results in annual report summarizing all activities associated with the Lostine River spring chinook supplementation project and compare to similar supplementation work proceeding in the Columbia River basin. |
on-going |
$25,000 |
|
|
c. Present reports on project activities and findings at Annual BPA/CBFWA Project Review and other forums (i.e., AFS, NAFWS, LSRCP Annual Review). |
on-going |
$15,000 |
|
Indirect rate increased about 4%. The operation and maintenance budget has increased from what was anticipated need for 2001. This is primarily due to a change in responsibility for pump rental, operation, and maintenance for the acclimation facility which amounts to $60,000. For the first two years of operation (FY99 and FY00) these expenses were covered by the contractor constructing the facilities through a different BPA budget. Starting in 2001 these costs will have to be covered by this project. The increases in monitoring and evaluation cost was primarily due to the number of PIT tags required and additional administrative support.
This information was not provided on the original proposals, but was generated during the review process.
