FY 2002 LSRCP proposal 200102

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
200102 Narrative	Narrative
Lower Snake River Compensation Plan Overview Powerpoint Presentation	Powerpoint Presentation

Section 1. Administrative

Proposal title	Production of Summer Steelhead at Hagerman National Fish Hatchery, Lower Snake River Compensation Plan
Proposal ID	200102
Organization	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Lower Snake River Compensation Plan Office (USFWS/LSRCP)
Proposal contact person or principal investigator
Name	Howard Burge
Mailing address	PO Box 18 Ahsahka, Idaho 83520
Phone / email	2084767242 / Howard_Burge@fws.gov
Manager authorizing this project	Daniel Herrig
Review cycle	LSRCP
Province / Subbasin	Mountain Snake / Salmon
Short description	Mitigate for lost steelhead fisheries in the Salmon River due to the construction of the four Lower Snake River dams. Also evaluate rearing and fish health for the production program.
Target species	Summer Steelhead

Project location

Latitude	Longitude	Description
42.7479	-114.8491	Hatchery is located adjacent to the Snake River about three miles south and 2 miles east of Hagerman, Idaho.

Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)

Sponsor-reported:

RPA
Hatchery RPA Action 169
Hatchery RPA Action 174
RM&E RPA Action 185
RM&E RPA Action 189
RM&E RPA Action 193

Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:

Reviewing agency	Action #	BiOp Agency	Description

Section 2. Past accomplishments

Year	Accomplishment
1988	1,478,830 smolts produced, Idaho Fish Health Center initiated a BPA project for Fish Health Monitoring.
1989	1,439,266 smolts produced
1990	1,436,909 smolts produced
1991	1,453,058 smolts produced, Evaluation of size at release.
1992	1,487,842 smolts produced
1993	1,519,168 smolts produced
1994	1,151,544 smolts produced, Bird netting erected over steelhead raceway, significantly reduceing IHNV
1995	1,329,226 smolts produced
1996	1,158,658 smolts produced
1997	1,032,407 smolts produced
1998	1,210,005 smolts produced
1999	1,318,827 smolts produced, Completed a 4 year evaluation of intermittant feeding to slow growth
2000	1,208,745 smolts procuced

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 2002 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 2002 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 2002 cost
1. Produce 1,360,000 summer steelhead smolts (340,000 lbs) at 4-5 fish per pound.	a. Perform fish culture activities as scheduled.	ongoing	$447,000
	b. Perform smolt transportation from the hatchery to smolt outplant locations throughout the upper Salmon River Basin.	30 days	$104,000
	c. Perform facility maintenance as scheduled and on an as needed basis	ongoing	$195,000
2. Produce and maintain good quality, healthy, and viable smolts for release.	a. Perform fish health exams on schedule and on as as needed basis.	ongoing	$51,600

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
1. Produce 1,360,000 summer steelhead smolts (340,000 lbs) at 4-5 fish per pound.	2003	2006	$3,376,000
2. Produce and maintain good quality, healthy, and viable smolts for release.	2003	2006	$233,500

Outyear budgets for Operations and Maintenance phase

FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006
$837,200	$878,900	$927,700	$969,700

Section 7. Budget for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2002 cost
1. Evaluate the progress of Hagerman NFH in meeting its mitigation goal for LSRCP.	a. Document summer steelhead rearing activities at Hagerman NFH.	ongoing	$3,292
	b. Complete brood year reports for Hagerman NFH.	ongoing	$3,292
2. Recommend hatchery practices that will produce sufficient smolts to meet LSRCP mitigation goals.	a. Provide leadership for the Hagerman Hatchery Evaluation Team.	ongoing	$5,000
	b. Complete the Intermittant Feeding Study for summer steelhead at Hagerman NFH	2	$10,500
	c. Complete the Beta Glucan Evaluation Study for summer steelhead at Hagerman NFH.	2	$10,500
3. Facilitate inter- and intra-agency coordination and cooperation with FWS LSRCP hatchery production and evaluation programs in Idaho.	a. Act as the Service's technical coordinator for all research programs using fish produced at Hagerman NFH.	ongoing	$5,000
	b. Coordinate LSRCP activities between the Idaho FRO and the LSRCP Coordinators Office.	ongoing	$5,000
	c. Continue to develop and maintain the information and data management system at the Idaho Fishery Resource Office.	ongoing	$5,000

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost
1. Evaluate the progress of Hagerman NFH in meeting its mitigation goal for LSRCP.	2003	2006	$29,797
2. Recommend hatchery practices that will produce sufficient smolts to meet LSRCP mitigation goals.	2003	2006	$117,666
3. Facilitate inter- and intra-agency coordination and cooperation with FWS LSRCP hatchery production and evaluation programs in Idaho.	2003	2006	$49,651

Outyear budgets for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006
$49,963	$52,461	$55,084	$57,838

Section 8. Estimated budget summary

Itemized budget

Item	Note	FY 2002 cost
Personnel		$432,892
Fringe		$108,223
Supplies		$253,369
Travel		$24,700
Capital		$26,000
		$845,184

Total estimated budget

Total FY 2002 cost	$845,184
Amount anticipated from previously committed BPA funds	$0
Total FY 2002 budget request	$845,184
FY 2002 forecast from 2001	$0
% change from forecast	0.0%

Cost sharing

Organization	Item or service provided	Amount	Cash or 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 2001-12B)

Recommendation:
Fundable only if response is adequate

Date:
Dec 21, 2001

Comment:

A response is needed. The sponsors did not provide information to show the success or failure of the program. The proposal should include enough data to show its success or failure. Instead, the project sponsors refer reviewers to IDFG reports. While it is appropriate to reference critical reports, their results need to be summarized and included in the proposal. The stated goal of the program is to release 1,360,000 smolts to return 13,600 adult steelhead to the basin upstream from Lower Granite Dam. The project history contains data indicating that the goal for steelhead smolt release was met in 12 of the 18 years since 1984. However, no results on the more important goal of the adult return are presented. The M&E objective 1, task 2 mentions collection of data on adult contribution to fisheries, but does not seem to consider also total adult return. How many adult steelhead does the program return to that area? The Brood Year Reports should also include estimates of numbers and locations of strays that spawn naturally. Portions of the proposal seemed confusing to reviewers. The program exists as a mitigation program, but R&D projects are part of the request and history. Initiation of projects mentioned such as the heritability of spawn time, and factors influencing precocity have been subjects of research programs in other locations (ODFW, for example). Were results of this research considered before these projects were initiated? Why was it necessary to repeat much of this work? Hatcheries should not be funded to develop their own databases, but rather, all LSRCP hatcheries need to provide evidence in their proposals that monitoring data are stored in an appropriate consistent database and are available through a distributed system via the Internet. The data and evaluation should be consistent with the Dworshak use of the Idaho FRO system (see Task 3.c in Proposal 200101) and any database in use by the Oregon Evaluation Studies (#200109). Results must be described in the proposal even if the data are collected and analyzed by a different project.

REVIEW:
ISRP Final Review (ISRP 2002-6)

Recommendation:
Fund

Date:
Apr 23, 2002

Comment:

Fundable, but issues remain. The response addressed the issue of adult returns, that is, they will be unable to directly estimate adult return partially due to high harvest rates. This inability complicates any assessment of the success of the Hagerman facility.

The hatchery should be better able to report stray data relevant to its releases, rather than referring reviewers to PSMFC website.

Data management issues with this project, as acknowledged by the proponents, should be dealt with at the program level. See the ISRP recommendation for the LSRCP to undergo a data management review.

The program at Hagerman has not met its mitigation goal so project personnel are trying to get greater survival of the fish they produce. That may be a suitable strategy for hatchery management, but it is likely a poor strategy for incorporating the fish produced into the Columbia-Snake ecosystem. Specific programs such as the LSRCP should not be managed independent of other programs in the basin. Like the database issue, this is an issue that belongs to the entire LSRCP program and should be dealt with programmatically.