Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Fishery Management Program

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

Monitoring Research
Project ID013 21 SA
Recovery DomainsSnake River
Start Date12/09/2021
End Date11/30/2022
Year2021
StatusCompleted
Last Edited02/27/2024
 
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Description    


The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes (SBT) Fisheries Management Program (FMP) provides treaty-reserved fishing opportunities to tribal members, while managing fishery impacts to ESA-listed Snake River spring/summer Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Tribal harvest is managed according to the SBT’s Tribal Resource Management Plans (TRMPs) for the Salmon and Grande Ronde/Imnaha river basins.



During this contract, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Fishery Management Program participated in fishery forecasting and in-season management of tribal fisheries on Snake River spring/summer Chinook salmon. The SBT set fishing regulations, guidelines, and seasons; and coordinated these activities with tribal, state, and federal co-managers. In-season creel surveys were used to monitor and estimate tribal catch by fishery management area (population), allowing for the evaluation and management of tribal harvest impacts. Tribal harvest monitoring was successfully completed in the 2022 Chinook salmon fishing season. The goal of harvest monitoring was to provide estimates of Chinook salmon harvest in all areas open to Chinook salmon hunting. In all, the project obtained over 200 surveys encompassing over 650 individuals and estimated a total Tribal harvest of 663 adult Chinook salmon.



As part of these efforts, the FMP quantified wild Chinook salmon abundance and productivity (viable salmonid population – VSP – parameters) at Bear Valley Creek, the SBT’s major wild Chinook salmon fishery, to adaptively manage harvest and assess impacts from climate change and factors limiting population productivity (i.e. juvenile production, survival, tribal harvest). The Bear Valley Chinook Salmon Abundance Monitoring Project (BRCAMP) as a fish-in/fish-out project, annually evaluates the status of the Chinook salmon population through evaluations of juvenile and adult production; thereby contributing to long-term population monitoring. The project collected highly accurate and precise Viable Salmonid Population (VSP) attribute data with known accuracy and precision, for examination of status, trend and critical uncertainties research. In 2022, SBT successfully implemented the twelfth year of video and the eleventh year of screw trap operations under BRCAMP. In all, the project estimated that 535 ± 67 Chinook escaped to Bear Valley Creek, generally in the early morning hours, and 211,347 (SE 17,593) BY21 Chinook juveniles migrated to the ocean.



Original project objectives included harvest monitoring in the Grande Ronde and Imnaha River basins. However, there was no intended nor communicated harvest occurring; thus, no harvest monitoring was necessary in these locations. The unspent contracting balance of funds is the result of no harvest monitoring in the Grande Ronde and Imnaha River basins and is reflected in the metrics. This project was multi-grant funded with FY17 and FY21 funds. FY17 funds were utilized within the FY17 grant period.

Project Benefit    


The Fisheries Management Program (FMP) will support the implementation and management of tribal fisheries on ESA-listed spring/summer Chinook salmon within the Snake River basin and according to the frameworks outlined in the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes (SBT) Tribal Resource Management Plans (TRMPs). Specifically, the program will facilitate: SBT participation in forecasting, run-reconstruction, in-season coordination/data-sharing with state and federal co-managers, and the development of annual fishery implementation plans within the Salmon and Grande Ronde/Imnaha river basins. Through harvest monitoring, the SBT will evaluate take and enforce fishery regulations throughout the Salmon and Grande Ronde/Imnaha river basins. Also, the SBT estimates tribal fishing effort, catch per unit effort, and catch composition by fishery management area.



Bear Valley Creek is a natural production stronghold for spring/summer Chinook salmon within the Salmon River Basin and is the primary wild population targeted by the SBT in cultural and subsistence fisheries. Thus, the FMP will conduct intensive Chinook salmon

population monitoring at Bear Valley Creek to (1) adaptively manage the tribal fishery, (2) monitor the effects of the Columbia River hydropower system (out-of-basin) and within basin factors, such as harvest, on the threatened Snake River spring/summer Chinook salmon ESU, and (3) monitor the within-basin effects of climate change on the threatened Snake River spring/summer Chinook salmon ESU.

Accomplishments

Metric Completed Originally
Proposed
Research and Monitoring
  Stream Miles Monitored 1,193.69 1,363.69

Funding Details

SourceFunds
PCSRF$84,120
Other$41,413
Report Total:$125,533


Project Map



Worksites

Bear Valley Creek Population Monitoring: Fir Creek Campground    


  • Worksite Identifier: Bear Valley Creek Population Monitoring: Fir Creek Campground
  • Start Date: 12/09/0021
  • End Date: 11/30/0022
Area Description

No Area Description data was found for this worksite.

Location Information

  • Basin: Salmon (170602)
  • Subbasin: Upper Middle Fork Salmon (17060205)
  • Watershed: Bear Valley Creek (1706020502)
  • Subwatershed: Fir Creek-Bear Valley Creek (170602050204)
  • State: Idaho
  • Recovery Domain: Snake River
  • Latitude: 44.428128
  • Longitude: -115.285241

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 103,189.00
    •      . . E.0.b
      Complement habitat restoration project
      No
    •      . . E.0.c
      Project identified in a plan or watershed assessment.
      Denny, L., K. Tardy, K. Kutchins, and S. Brandt. 2010. Tribal Resource Management Plans for Shoshone - Bannock Tribes' Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon Fisheries within the Salmon and Grande Ronde river Sub-Basins. Shoshone - Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho. NOAA NMFS, 2017. ESA Recovery Plan for Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon & Snake River Basin Steelhead. NOAA NMFS, Portland, Oregon.
    •      . . E.0.d.1 Number of Cooperating Organizations 2
    •      . . E.0.d.2
      Name Of Cooperating Organizations.
      IDFG, USFS
    •      . . E.0.e.1 Number of reports prepared 1
    •      . . E.0.e.2
      Name Of Report
      Croy, R.M. and K.A. Tardy. 2023. Bear Valley Creek Chinook Salmon Abundance Monitoring Project. 2022 Annual Report. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho.
    •      . . E.1 MonitoringY (Y/N)
      •      . . . . E.1.a Monitoring funding 78,584.00
      •      . . . . E.1.b.1 Stream Miles Monitored 41.38
      •      . . . . E.1.b.2 Acres of Watershed Area Monitored 531.0
      •      . . . . E.1.c.1 Adult salmonid population monitoringY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.1.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for adult salmonids 41.38
      •      . . . . E.1.c.2 Salmonid smolt or fry monitoringY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.2.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for Salmonid smolt or fry 41.38
      •      . . . . E.1.c.3 Biological instream monitoring (other than salmon)Y (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.3.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for Biological indicies (other than salmon) 41.38
      •      . . . . E.1.c.4 Redd countsY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.4.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for redds 41.38
      •      . . . . E.1.c.5 Carcass countsY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.5.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for Carcasses 41.38
      •      . . . . E.1.c.6 Harvest monitoringY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.6.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for harvest 41.38
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.6.b # square miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for harvest.61 (Square miles)
      •      . . . . E.1.c.9 Water quantity (flow) monitoringY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.9.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for water quantity (flow) monitoring 41.38
        •      . . . . E.1.d
          Name Of Comprehensive Monitoring Strategy/Program
          None
      •      . . E.2 ResearchY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . E.2.a Research Funding 24,605.00
        •      . . . . E.2.b.2 tissue sampling and analysisY (Y/N)
          •      . . . . . . E.2.b.2.a
            Key issues addressed by tissue sampling and analysis research
            Staff collected 100 Chinook juvenile genetic samples and 339 Steelhead scale samples. Both have been shipped to IDFG for diversity and aging analyses.
        •      . . . . E.2.b.6 Wild salmonid tagging/marking studyY (Y/N)
          •      . . . . . . E.2.b.6.a
            Key issues addressed by wild salmon tagging/marking study
            The program uses annually collected data to analyze over 25 Viable Salmonid Population (VSP) metrics. Due to the amount of data, this information will be provided in the final technical report submitted with all necessary close out documentation.
          •      . . . . . . E.2.b.6.b Number by species of wild salmonids tagged/marked (LOV)

SBT Harvest Monitoring: Salmon River Basin    


  • Worksite Identifier: SBT Harvest Monitoring: Salmon River Basin
  • Start Date: 12/09/0021
  • End Date: 11/30/0022
Area Description

No Area Description data was found for this worksite.

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: 44.217883
  • Longitude: -114.946289

ESU

  • Snake River Spring/Summer-run Chinook Salmon ESU

Map

Photos

Metrics

Metrics
  • E.0 Salmonid Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RM&E)Y (Y/N)
    •      . . E.0.a RM&E Funding 22,344.00
    •      . . E.0.b
      Complement habitat restoration project
      No
    •      . . E.0.c
      Project identified in a plan or watershed assessment.
      Denny, L., K. Tardy, K. Kutchins, and S. Brandt. 2010. Tribal Resource Management Plans for Shoshone - Bannock Tribes' Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon Fisheries within the Salmon and Grande Ronde river Sub-Basins. Shoshone - Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho. NOAA NMFS, 2017. ESA Recovery Plan for Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon & Snake River Basin Steelhead. NOAA NMFS, Portland, Oregon.
    •      . . E.0.d.1 Number of Cooperating Organizations 1
    •      . . E.0.d.2
      Name Of Cooperating Organizations.
      Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Fish and Game Enforcement Department
    •      . . E.0.e.1 Number of reports prepared 1
    •      . . E.0.e.2
      Name Of Report
      Croy, R.M. and K.A. Tardy. 2023. Chinook Salmon Harvest Management Program. 2022 Annual Report. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho.
    •      . . E.1 MonitoringY (Y/N)
      •      . . . . E.1.a Monitoring funding 22,344.00
      •      . . . . E.1.b.1 Stream Miles Monitored 1,152.31
      •      . . . . E.1.b.2 Acres of Watershed Area Monitored 36,876.8
      •      . . . . E.1.b.3 Square miles of water monitored57.62 (Square miles)
      •      . . . . E.1.c.6 Harvest monitoringY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.6.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for harvest 1,152.31
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.6.b # square miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for harvest57.62 (Square miles)
        •      . . . . E.1.d
          Name Of Comprehensive Monitoring Strategy/Program
          None

SBT Harvest Monitoring: Grande Ronde    


  • Worksite Identifier: SBT Harvest Monitoring: Grande Ronde
  • Start Date: 12/09/0021
  • End Date: 11/30/0022
Area Description

No Area Description data was found for this worksite.

Location Information

  • Basin: Lower Snake (170601)
  • Subbasin: Wallowa (17060105)
  • Watershed: Middle Wallowa River (1706010503)
  • Subwatershed: Spring Branch-Wallowa River (170601050306)
  • State: Oregon
  • Recovery Domain: Snake River
  • Latitude: 45.543049
  • Longitude: -117.491047

ESU

  • Snake River Spring/Summer-run Chinook Salmon ESU

Map

Photos

Metrics

Metrics
  • E.0 Salmonid Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RM&E)Y (Y/N)
    •      . . E.0.a RM&E Funding .00
    •      . . E.0.b
      Complement habitat restoration project
      No
    •      . . E.0.c
      Project identified in a plan or watershed assessment.
      Denny, L., K. Tardy, K. Kutchins, and S. Brandt. 2010. Tribal Resource Management Plans for Shoshone - Bannock Tribes' Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon Fisheries within the Salmon and Grande Ronde river Sub-Basins. Shoshone - Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho. NOAA NMFS, 2017. ESA Recovery Plan for Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon & Snake River Basin Steelhead. NOAA NMFS, Portland, Oregon.
    •      . . E.0.d.1 Number of Cooperating Organizations 0
    •      . . E.0.d.2
      Name Of Cooperating Organizations.
      None
    •      . . E.0.e.1 Number of reports prepared 1
    •      . . E.0.e.2
      Name Of Report
      Croy, R.M. and K.A. Tardy. 2023. Chinook Salmon Harvest Management Program. 2022 Annual Report. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho.
    •      . . E.1 MonitoringY (Y/N)
      •      . . . . E.1.a Monitoring funding .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.6 Harvest monitoringY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.6.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for harvest .00
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.6.b # square miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for harvest0 (Square miles)
        •      . . . . E.1.d
          Name Of Comprehensive Monitoring Strategy/Program
          None

SBT Harvest Monitoring: Imnaha River Basin    


  • Worksite Identifier: SBT Harvest Monitoring: Imnaha River Basin
  • Start Date: 12/09/0021
  • End Date: 11/30/0022
Area Description

No Area Description data was found for this worksite.

Location Information

  • Basin: Lower Snake (170601)
  • Subbasin: Imnaha (17060102)
  • Watershed: Middle Imnaha River (1706010202)
  • Subwatershed: Deer Creek-Imnaha River (170601020206)
  • State: Oregon
  • Recovery Domain: Snake River
  • Latitude: 45.42759
  • Longitude: -116.785062

ESU

  • Snake River Spring/Summer-run Chinook Salmon ESU

Map

Photos

Metrics

Metrics
  • E.0 Salmonid Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RM&E)Y (Y/N)
    •      . . E.0.a RM&E Funding .00
    •      . . E.0.b
      Complement habitat restoration project
      No
    •      . . E.0.c
      Project identified in a plan or watershed assessment.
      Denny, L., K. Tardy, K. Kutchins, and S. Brandt. 2010. Tribal Resource Management Plans for Shoshone - Bannock Tribes' Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon Fisheries within the Salmon and Grande Ronde river Sub-Basins. Shoshone - Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho. NOAA NMFS, 2017. ESA Recovery Plan for Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon & Snake River Basin Steelhead. NOAA NMFS, Portland, Oregon.
    •      . . E.0.d.1 Number of Cooperating Organizations 0
    •      . . E.0.d.2
      Name Of Cooperating Organizations.
      None
    •      . . E.0.e.1 Number of reports prepared 1
    •      . . E.0.e.2
      Name Of Report
      Croy, R.M. and K.A. Tardy. 2023. Chinook Salmon Harvest Management Program. 2022 Annual Report. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho.
    •      . . E.1 MonitoringY (Y/N)
      •      . . . . E.1.a Monitoring funding .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.6 Harvest monitoringY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.6.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for harvest .00
        •      . . . . . . E.1.c.6.b # square miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for harvest0 (Square miles)
        •      . . . . E.1.d
          Name Of Comprehensive Monitoring Strategy/Program
          None