November 3-5, 2009November 3-5, 2009

Stevenson, WAStevenson, WA

Columbia Basin Coordinated Anadromous Monitoring Strategy Workshop

Upper Columbia Sub-Region

2 Listed ESU/DPS Steelhead- ThreatenedSpr Chinook- Endangered

1 MPG each

Populations: 4 steelhead, 3 Chinook

Other anadromous salmonids: sockeye, summer/fall Chinook, coho

Determine abundance and productivity for all “Primary” populations in the Upper Columbia ESUs with known accuracy and precision.◦ spring Chinook--census redd surveys & carcass recovery◦ steelhead--combination of redd surveys and PIT/Radio tags for

mark-recapture validation and bio-data (i.e. origin, age structure, sex ratio)

◦ juvenile productivity– smolt traps Monitor spatial structure and diversity metrics to provide

information for risk assessments consistent with the ICTRT viability criteria.◦ distribution using redd surveys and remote PIT tag arrays◦ phenotypic traits via all of the above (carcasses, broodstock

collection, redd surveys, smolt traps) PIT tags allow for refinement and detail not possible with aggregate methods

Genotypic diversity through periodic (1-2 generations) sampling within each population.

Summarize Strategy (VSP)Summarize Strategy (VSP)

Determine the hatchery impacts on wild populations of spring Chinook and Steelhead throughout the Upper Columbia (Mostly funded under HCP and PRCC)

Productivity (NRR) and abundance that compares treatment (Wenatchee and Methow to unsupplemented reference streams/populations

Implementing RSS studies in a subset of populations with different PNI’s (steelhead)

Continue RSS for Spring Chinook in Wenatchee long term Monitoring for genetic divergence and straying Comparing spatial distribution between hatchery and naturally

produced fish

Summarize Strategy Summarize Strategy (Hatchery Effectiveness)(Hatchery Effectiveness)

Status and Trend (long term, population level, random design)

◦ Under way in Wenatchee and Okanogan for 5-6 yrs◦ Entiat and Methow (proposed)

Effectiveness◦ Entiat; IMW experimental design (Reach and

Population level)◦ Reach level effectiveness monitoring in the Methow

(USGS/USBR)◦ Project/Reach level effectiveness monitoring in the

Wenatchee

Summarize Strategy (Habitat Effectiveness)Summarize Strategy (Habitat Effectiveness)

◦ How it (existing monitoring) conforms with your strategy The strategy is built around the ongoing monitoring under the HCPs

and previous federal BiOps.

◦ How it informs the BIOP RPA’s Existing monitoring covers the majority of the RPA requirements.

◦ Where there adjustments identified Yes, 3 reductions, 3 neutral shifts, and 2 increases

ISEMP shifts for analysis MOA adjustments

◦ Were these adjustments cost plus, cost minus or cost neutral, include total amounts

Reductions = $240k (Within MOA) Increases = $450k ($300k in MOA)

Summarize the confirmed existing monitoring and its Summarize the confirmed existing monitoring and its relation to your strategy and the BIOP RPA’srelation to your strategy and the BIOP RPA’s

◦ Needed for the RPA requirements OBMEP (large fish and habitat project in Okanogan) UC habitat restoration Nason Creek smolt trap Omak Creek smolt and adult traps Kelt reconditioning Nutrient supplementation Status and trend annual reporting

◦ Needed for non-RPA strategy CRITFC sockeye projects UC Coho Chief Joseph Hatchery monitoring

Summarize any Accord monitoring within Summarize any Accord monitoring within your strategyyour strategy

Highest: (New) RPA 50.3, 50.4, 50.6; Upper Columbia “RPA umbrella project”

◦ Steelhead radio tracking◦ Expansion of PIT tag output and interrogation

automation of PIT tag analysis◦ Precision and accuracy of adult and juvenile abundance

and productivity (smolt traps and redd surveys)

Highest: (Modified) RPA 50.3, 50.6; Expansion of PIT tag output and interrogation in the Okanogan. ◦ RPA 50.6 “Linking fish in fish out monitoring to populations

with relatively large survival gaps.”

Summarize, by priority, the new monitoring Summarize, by priority, the new monitoring efforts needed to meet the efforts needed to meet the RPA requirements RPA requirements

VSP

◦ Highest: New, RPA 56; Habitat status and trend in the Methow

◦ Highest: New, RPA 56; Status and Trend Water Quantity and Quality Monitoring; Replaces diminishing WDOE efforts

◦ Highest: New, RPA 56.2; Habitat status and trend for Entiat (random sites in tributaries are not covered under ISEMP effectiveness monitoring).

◦ Highest: New, RPA 57.4; Implement project level habitat action effectiveness monitoring in the Wenatchee.

Summarize, by priority, the new monitoring Summarize, by priority, the new monitoring efforts needed to meet the efforts needed to meet the RPA requirements RPA requirements

Habitat

◦ Highest: New, RPA 64.3; Study reproductive success of hatchery and natural origin steelhead in the Methow.

Summarize, by priority, the new monitoring Summarize, by priority, the new monitoring efforts needed to meet the efforts needed to meet the RPA requirements RPA requirements

Hatchery

◦ Highest; New; RPA 71, 72, 73; Implementation monitoring for restoration and protection projects, data management, and reporting. Independent “audit” and tracking of implemented projects for BPA and other funding sources.

Non-Sub-regional Response: “FUNDING NEEDS TO BE COVERED UNDER THE CATEGORICAL REVIEW“.

◦ Lower; New; Develop temperature models to predict benefits or to properly size projects proposed to reduce water temperatures.

Summarize, by priority, the Summarize, by priority, the new additional new additional monitoring efforts needed to meet the strategymonitoring efforts needed to meet the strategy

Habitat

Highest: New; Estimate exploitation of natural origin summer Chinook (related to harvest increases resulting from hatchery increases).

High: New; Summer Chinook sonic/radio tracking study Lower: New; Juvenile life history pathways for summer

Chinook

Summarize, by priority, the Summarize, by priority, the new additional new additional monitoring efforts needed to meet the strategy.monitoring efforts needed to meet the strategy.

Summer Chinook

Highest; New; Implement Lake Wenatchee sockeye trophic status study. ◦ THERE COULD BE SOME CRITFC MOA STUDIES IN

LAKE WENATCHEE BUT THEIR STUDY PLANS ARE NOT FINALIZED.

High; New; Relocate Lake Wenatchee smolt traps downstream where mark-recapture efficiency is higher.

Summarize, by priority, the Summarize, by priority, the new additional new additional monitoring efforts needed to meet the strategy.monitoring efforts needed to meet the strategy.

Sockeye

RPA 50.7: externally mark all fish produced with funding from Action Agencies.◦ Okanogan steelhead◦ Coho◦ Winthrop NFH Spring Chinook?

◦ PUD funded programs are not 100% marked.

Unresolved RPA workgroup recommendationsUnresolved RPA workgroup recommendations