FY 2001 Innovative proposal 22044

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
22044 Narrative	Narrative

Section 1. Administrative

Proposal title	Develop commercial selective live release fisheries for spring chinook on the Columbia River
Proposal ID	22044
Organization	Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW/ODFW)
Proposal contact person or principal investigator
Name	Geraldine Vander Haegen
Mailing address	WDFW Fish Program, 600 Capitol Way North Olympia, WA, 98501-1091
Phone / email	3609022793 / vandegev@dfw.wa.gov
Manager authorizing this project	Lee Blankenship, WDFW; Guy Norman, ODFW
Review cycle	FY 2001 Innovative
Province / Subbasin	Lower Columbia / Mainstem Columbia
Short description	Develop and evaluate commercial selective live capture fisheries on the Columbia River to provide a fishery where tooth nets are used to catch marked hatchery chinook and unmarked fish are released.
Target species	Spring Chinook

Project location

Latitude	Longitude	Description
45.67	-122.57	Columbia Lower
45.6075	-121.13	The Dalles Dam
45.6367	-121.9337	Bonneville Dam

Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)

Sponsor-reported:

RPA

Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:

Reviewing agency	Action #	BiOp Agency	Description

Section 2. Past accomplishments

Year	Accomplishment

Section 3. Relationships to other projects

Project ID	Title	Description

Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2001 cost	Subcontractor

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost

Outyear budgets for Planning and Design phase

Section 5. Budget for Construction and Implementation phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2001 cost	Subcontractor

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost

Outyear budgets for Construction and Implementation phase

Section 6. Budget for Operations and Maintenance phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2001 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 2001 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 2001 cost
Personnel	FTE: 3.2 total WDFW: 1.4, $44,810; ODFW: 1.8, $58,580	$103,400
Fringe	30% of salaries of non-temporary staff WDFW: $5,190; ODFW: $10,820	$16,000
Supplies	2 laptops, tags, safety gear, rain gear, miscellaneous WDFW: $14,200; ODFW: $7,385	$21,585
Travel	Perdiem, mileage for field staff, travel to meetings WDFW: $28,250; ODFW: $26,050	$54,300
Indirect	WDFW 20.8%, $20,894; ODFW 20.6%, $40,215	$61,109
Capital	Net pens ($20,000), fishing nets ($42,000) ODFW: $59,000	$62,000
PIT tags	0	$0
Subcontractor	# of tags: Test fishing contracts WDFW: $8,000; ODFW: $30,400	$38,400
		$356,794

Total estimated budget

Total FY 2001 cost	$356,794
Total FY 2001 budget request	$356,794

Cost sharing

Organization	Item or service provided	Amount	Cash or in-kind
WDFW	Salary and benefits, 0.25 Bio 4, principle investigator	$15,000	cash
WDFW	Mileage and per diem for principle investigator	$1,000	cash
WDFW	Equipment, trap net	$12,500	in-kind
WDFW	Hold workshop	$1,000	in-kind
WDFW	20.8% Overhead on cash matches	$3,330	cash
ODFW	Salary and benefits, 0.25 Bio 4, principle investigator	$15,000	cash
ODFW	Equipment	$2,500	in-kind
ODFW	Fishing effort for mesh size comparison, compensated with catch	$40,000	in-kind
ODFW	Hold workshop	$1,000	in-kind
ODFW	Overhead on cash matches	$3,000	cash

Reviews and recommendations

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

REVIEW:
ISRP Review (ISRP 2000-10)

Recommendation:
Yes - C

Date:
Dec 15, 2000

Comment:

Although marginally meeting the innovative criteria in that the approach has not been implemented in the Columbia Basin, this proposal offers little potential benefit over what is already known. While there is a need for more selective fishing gear to enable the harvest of hatchery stocks while protecting wild stocks, this proposal is innovative only in that it will extend testing of tooth net gear to a context in which it hasn't been tested. It wasn't clear from the proposal why the results of tests elsewhere are not applicable without further testing. Other questions from the panel included why not use live tanks for tagging and release, and why not use a large box trap in the estuary. The proposal states that there is a particular need to test delayed mortality (and we agree), but the approach described to assess long-term survival only tracks fish between Bonneville and The Dalles dams with the assumption that survival over this time span represents long-term survival. The proposed work would experiment with 3 different soak times, 2 tooth net mesh sizes, and 1 gill net mesh size. There needs to be better description of the sampling procedure and statistical analysis that would accommodate these various experiments and be able to detect statistically significant differences in treatment effects.