Harvest Evaluation Project 2017

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

Monitoring
Project IDEvaluation 2017
Recovery DomainsSnake River
Start Date09/01/2017
End Date08/31/2018
Year2017
StatusCompleted
Last Edited01/25/2024
 
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Description    


The Tribes completed the 2018 Chinook Salmon Harvest Management Program – data collection, data analysis, and initiation of the Annual Report. Redd counts and carcass surveys completed by Tribal staff, an online spawning ground survey database managed by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, and communication with other Tribal and IDFG biologists was used to develop escapement estimates for the 2018 harvest report. As in many previous years, Tribal staff observed a similar level of Tribal membership participation in the fishery, although proportionately lower due to significantly fewer returning adult salmon to Idaho. Catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) obtained through roving creel surveys throughout multiple FMAs provided highly accurate and precise estimates of Tribal Chinook salmon harvest in productive areas in the basin. Other fishery management areas were allocated less monitoring effort due to inaccessibility, limited pressure, and/or low numbers of returning adults. The Tribes preliminary harvest estimate is for 518 Chinook salmon adults, 102 natural and 416 hatchery-origin. Highest observed effort occurred in Bear Valley Creek, South Fork Salmon River, and the Upper Salmon River Mainstem. By generating total escapement through redd counts (abundance) and carcass surveys (diversity; Broodyear age analyses), preliminary analyses indicate the Tribes did not exceed any initial or post-season harvest rates for any tributaries identified in our 2018 Fishery Implementation Plans submitted to NOAA-Fisheries. The final harvest management report will be submitted to NOAA Fisheries by 15 March 2019. Staff will continue to improve coordination, and abundance and harvest estimates with a fully funded project and support from NOAA Fisheries.

Project Benefit    


The Tribes will report their harvest estimates to NOAA-Fisheries and relevant co-managers on a weekly basis through the recently developed Snake Basin Adult Coordination Meetings. Once fishery guidelines or total impacts are achieved for an individual fishery, such fishery will be curtailed unless information suggests forecasts under-predicted escapement or an adjusted in-season forecast is made by TAC. Conversely, should information suggest pre-season forecasts over-estimate escapement, harvest guidelines will be reduced.

Accomplishments

Metric Completed Originally
Proposed
Research and Monitoring
  Stream Miles Monitored 10,050.00 10,050.00

Funding Details

SourceFunds
PCSRF$75,000
Other$25,000
Report Total:$100,000


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Worksites

40969429    


  • Worksite Identifier: 40969429
  • Start Date: 09/01/2017
  • End Date: 08/31/2018
Area Description
Fishery Evaluations in Salmon River and Grande Ronde/Imnaha Rivers Basins

Location Information

  • Basin: Salmon (170602)
  • Subbasin: Upper Salmon (17060201)
  • Watershed: Valley Creek (1706020101)
  • Subwatershed: Lower Valley Creek (170602010106)
  • State: Idaho
  • Recovery Domain: Snake River
  • Latitude: 44.2178831085
  • Longitude: -114.9462890625

ESU

  • Snake River Spring/Summer-run Chinook Salmon ESU

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Metrics

Metrics
  • E.0 Salmonid Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RM&E)Y (Y/N)
    •      . . E.0.a RM&E Funding 100,000.00
    •      . . E.0.b
      Complement habitat restoration project
      None
    •      . . E.0.c
      Project identified in a plan or watershed assessment.
      Tribal Resources Management Plans
    •      . . E.0.d.1 Number of Cooperating Organizations 1
    •      . . E.0.d.2
      Name Of Cooperating Organizations.
      Shoshone Bannock Tribes Fish and Game Enforcement
    •      . . E.0.e.1 Number of reports prepared 4
    •      . . E.0.e.2
      Name Of Report
      SBT Grant Report April 2018 (excel spreadsheet) SBT Grant Report September 2018 (excel spreadsheet) SBT Grant Report - Final FY17 (excel spreadsheet) Blackadar, R.J. and K.A. Tardy. 2018. Chinook Salmon Harvest Management Program. 2018 Annual Report. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho.
    •      . . E.1 MonitoringY (Y/N)
      •      . . . . E.1.a Monitoring funding 100,000.00
      •      . . . . E.1.b.1 Stream Miles Monitored 10,050.00
      •      . . . . E.1.b.2 Acres of Watershed Area Monitored 64,000.0
      •      . . . . E.1.b.3 Square miles of water monitored100 (Square miles)
      •      . . . . E.1.c.4 Redd countsY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.4.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for redds 50.00
      •      . . . . E.1.c.5 Carcass countsY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.5.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for Carcasses 50.00
      •      . . . . E.1.c.6 Harvest monitoringY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.6.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for harvest 10,000.00
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.6.b # square miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for harvest100 (Square miles)
        •      . . . . E.1.d
          Name Of Comprehensive Monitoring Strategy/Program
          Tribal Resources Management Plans