Artificial Production/Supplementation II

Salmonid Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RM&E)

Project ID	2003-5-03
Recovery Domains	Lower Columbia River
Start Date	09/01/2003
End Date	12/31/2005
Year	2003
Status	Completed
Last Edited	01/26/2024

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Description

CRITFC furnished scientific and technical input to aid in development of hatchery program objectives and reformed management protocols, and designed population monitoring activities that the tribal fisheries programs may be adequately evaluated as to their success in achieving their stated goals. CRITFC also interfaced with state and federal agencies on issues related to artificial propagation and salmon population genetics.

Project Benefit

Development and implementation of hatchery management and population monitoring plans by the tribal Fishery Departments which focus on the common objective of rebuilding natural populations within the upper Columbia River basin. Inclusion of tribal views on issues related to use of artificial propagation for salmon population restoration in the Columbia River system.

Source

Funds

PCSRF

$74,620

Report Total:

$74,620

Worksites

CRITFC-Portland Office

Worksite Identifier: CRITFC-Portland Office
Start Date:
End Date:

Area Description

No Area Description data was found for this worksite.

Location Information

Basin: Willamette (170900)
Subbasin: Lower Willamette
Watershed:
Subwatershed:

State: Oregon
Recovery Domain: Lower Columbia River
Latitude: 45.5288
Longitude: -122.6581

ESU

Mid-Columbia River Spring-run Chinook Salmon ESU
Lower Columbia River Coho Salmon ESU
Columbia River Chum Salmon ESU
Upper Columbia River Steelhead DPS
Lower Columbia River Steelhead DPS
Middle Columbia River Steelhead DPS
Un-Named ESU Sockeye
Un-Named ESU Coho
Lower Columbia River Chinook Salmon ESU

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Metrics

E.0 Salmonid Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RM&E)Y (Y/N)

. . E.0.a RM&E Funding 74,620.00
. . E.0.b
Complement habitat restoration project

none
. . E.0.c
Project identified in a plan or watershed assessment.

none
. . E.0.d.1 Number of Cooperating Organizations 7
. . E.0.d.2
Name Of Cooperating Organizations.

CRITFC, Northwest Power Conservation Council, NMFS Fisheries
. . E.0.e.1 Number of reports prepared 4
. . E.0.e.2
Name Of Report

CRITFC semi-annual PCSRF progress reports

. . E.1 MonitoringY (Y/N)

. . . . E.1.a Monitoring funding 74,620.00
. . . . E.1.b.1 Stream Miles Monitored .00
. . . . E.1.b.2 Acres of Watershed Area Monitored .0
. . . . E.1.b.3 Square miles of water monitored0 (Square miles)

. . . . E.1.c.12 Post-project implementation or design compliance monitoringY (Y/N)

. . . . . . E.1.c.12.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) stream or streambank monitored .00
. . . . . . E.1.c.12.c # acres (to nearest 0.1 acre) monitored .0
. . . . E.1.d
Name Of Comprehensive Monitoring Strategy/Program

None

. . . . E.1.e

Description of monitoring

Comments related to artificial propagation and its effects on natural salmon populations were included in the official responses of CRITFC to NOAA Fisheries proposed Salmon ESU Listing Determinations (Federal Registry 69(113): 33102-33179), Policy on Hatchery-Origin Fish (Federal Registry 69(107): 31354-31359), and the Draft Biological Opinion For Operation of the Federal Columbia River Power System. Brannon, EL, DF Amend, MA Cronin, JE Lannon, S LaPatra, WJ McNeil, RE Noble, CE Smith, AJ Talbot, GA Wedemeyer and H Westers. 2004. The controversy about salmon hatcheries. Fisheries 29(9): 12-31. Discussion at the NOAA NW Fisheries Science Center ESU Workshop indicated that scientists within the Center, and numerous scientists (geneticists) within academia persist in their belief that integration of hatchery-reared fish into a natural population will necessarily have deleterious effects on the population's fitness among. Nevertheless, results reported at the annual YKFP project review meetings, the Inter-Tribal Coho Restoration Workshop, the Warms Springs NFH annual review meeting, and in various other reports indicate that hatchery-reared fish have demonstrated a significant capacity to successfully produce natural recruits to a population. The latest draft of the NPCC Columbia Basin Research Plan, presents the view that supplementation should continue to be considered as 'experimental', due to persistent critical uncertainties about its use. However the Research Plan also states that 'the lack of perfect information is not grounds for inaction,'. The Plan proposes that several supplementation programs should nonetheless be put in place in areas of depressed abundance, and monitored over several generations in order to assess the extent of impacts, positive or negative, on the natural population. Similarly, the Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board , in its recently published draft of the Lower Columbia Salmon Recovery and Fish & Wildlife Subbasin Plan (the first sub-region within the Columbia Basin to have its subbasin plans rolled up into a recovery plan), proposes creation of several supplementation programs for rebuilding extinct or depressed salmon populations are proposed in various watersheds. There continues to be a need to collate updated information from ongoing supplementation programs, and to use that information to continue to advocate on behalf of the Tribes in the various regional processes, for use of supplementation as a valuable tool for salmon restoration within the Basin.