2018 ADULT SALMON COUNTS

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• At Willamette Falls Dam, it takes the staff most of the day to accurately review one day of fish passage on tape when the counts are high. The WFA staff make every attempt to keep the counts as up-to-date as possible. Note: at WFA Monday's are extremely busy, as the staff attempt to catch-up with the weekend counts.
• The Corp of Engineers has stopped shad counting at The Dalles, starting in 2011 on the advice of the Fish Passage Operations and Management (FPOM) committee, made up of NOAA, CRITFC, ODFW, WDFW, IDFW, BPA, and COE biologists.
• ¹⁾ Since the year 2006, Priest Rapids Dam and Wanapum Dam jack counts have included mini jacks.
• ²⁾ Shad are not counted at Willamette Falls, The Dalles, John Day, Lower Monumental, Little Goose, Rock Island, Rocky Reach and Wells Dams
• ³⁾ Steelhead counts appear higher at Lower Granite Dam because most years a group which migrated into the river system between October and December overwinters below LGR and continues its migration in early March.
• ⁴⁾ As the Army Corp of Engineers no longer collects adult counts from the PUDs, we now get data directly from Chelan, Douglas and Grant Co. PUDs and DART.
• The steelhead counts include unclipped (wild) steelhead. It is not appropriate to add the steelhead counts and wild steelhead counts together.
• ⁵⁾ Unclipped steelhead are counted separately from clipped steelhead at ODFW and Corps dams on the Willamette, Columbia, and Snake Rivers. There are two categories for steelhead 1. Unclipped Steelhead and 2. Total Steelhead (combines unclipped and clipped). There is no distinction between unclipped and clipped steelhead counts at Public Utility projects.
• ⁶⁾ Shad are typically not counted at any of the Corps dams after August 31 each year and shad are not counted at all Corps dams. An n/a in the shad columns at Bonneville Dam and Lower Granite Dam after August 31st means that the shad are not being counted.
• ⁷⁾In 2014, Grant County PUD trapped and transported hundreds of Lamprey above Rock Island Dam. Therefore, the ladder counts of Lamprey at Rock Island under estimate the true numbers of lamprey past the project.
• In 2012, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and NOAA Fisheries are currently developing automated counting systems for Lamprey Passage Structures (LPS) installed at Bonneville Dam. In the interest of publishing accurate counts, LPS counts will not be publicly posted in-season until the automated systems are fully operational.
• The adult counts in this report are based on reporting dates for dams recently established (2000). They are presented in the table below. A report with adult salmon counts based on historical dates (prior to 2000) can be found here.
• The reporting dates table shows that several dams stop counting fish around November 15th each year. After a dam stops counting fish for the season, only the total number of fish are shown on this report.
• These data are updated periodically throughout the day. The FPC data retrieving robot searches the web for updated data every 30 minutes in the AM, and every hour in the PM.
• The last column " Source " shows where the data was imported from: NWACE is imported from the COE's Daily Fish Reports; USACE is from US Army Corps of Engineers fish count pages; CHPUD is from Chelan PUD; GCPUD is from Grant PUD and DGPUD is from Douglas PUD and DART is from the University of Washington's Data Access in Real Time, WFA is imported from ODFW's Willamette Falls website.
• Some of the sites are several days behind in reporting, but is reported by the COE as zero, so where zeros appear across all rows, the data should be considered as "not yet reported".
• Video counts can cause a delay in posting the data to the web, because the staff at the projects have to review the tapes.

2017-18 Adult Salmon Dam Count Monitoring Dates

Dam	Video Monitoring Dates Day Night	Direct Monitoring Dates
Bonneville Dam	March 1 - March 31, 2017 December 1, 2017 - February 28, 2018 May 15 - September 30, 2016	April 1 to November 30, 2017
The Dalles Dam	March 1 - March 31 December 1, 2017 - February 28, 2018 June 15 - September 30, 2017	April 1 to October 31, 2017
John Day Dam	June 15 - September 30, 2017	April 1 to October 31, 2017
McNary Dam	March 1 - March 31 November 1, 2017 - February 28, 2018 June 15 - September 30, 2017	April 1 to October 31, 2017
Ice Harbor Dam		April 1 to October 31, 2017
Lower Monumental Dam		April 1 - October 31, 2017
Little Goose Dam		April 1 to October 31, 2017
Lower Granite Dam	March 1 - March 31, 2017 November 1 - December 30, 2017 June 1 - September 30, 2017	April 1 - October 31, 2017
Priest Rapids Dam	April 15 - November 15, 2017 (24 hr)
Wanapum Dam	April 15 - November 15, 2017 (24 hr)
Rock Island Dam	April 14 - November 15, 2017 (24 hr)
Rocky Reach Dam	April 14 - November 15, 2017 (24 hr)
Wells Dam	May 1 - November 15, 2017 (24 hr)
Willamette Falls	Count year round (24 hr)






2017-2018 Columbia and Snake River Fishway Outages

Dam	Dates Fishways are Closed
Bonneville Dam	Bradford Island Fishway: December 1, 2017-February 28, 2018. Cascades Island Fishway: Not Dewatering. Washington Shore Fishway: Not Dewatering.
The Dalles Dam	East Fish Fishway: December 1, 2017 - February 28, 2018. North Fish Fishway: January 16, 2018 – January 30, 2018.
John Day Dam	North Fish Fishway: December 5, 2017 – December 17, 2017. South Fish Fishway: January 9, 2018 - February 28, 2018.
McNary Dam	Washington Shore Fishway: January 1, 2018 – January 31, 2018. Oregon Shore Fishway: February 1, 2018 - February 27, 2018.
Ice Harbor Dam	North Shore Fishway: February 4, 2018 - February 28, 2018. South Shore Fishway: January 1, 2018 - February 3, 2018.
Lower Monumental Dam	North Shore Fishway: January 1, 2018–-January 31, 2018. South Shore Fishway: February 1, 2018 - February 28, 2018.
Little Goose Dam	January 2, 2018 - February 28, 2018.
Lower Granite Dam	January 1, 2018 – February 28, 2018.
Priest Rapids Dam	Left Bank Fishway: TBD Right Bank Fishway: TBD
Wanapum Dam	Right Bank Fishway: TBD Left Bank Fishway: TBD
Rock Island Dam	Right Bank Fishway: December 4, 2017 to January 5, 2018. Left Bank Fishway: December 18, 2017 to February 2, 2018. Middle Fishway: January 8, 2017 to TBD.
Rocky Reach Dam	December 11, 2017 to February 2, 2018.
Wells Dam	West Ladder: TBD East Ladder: TBD



• Data source: Corp of Engineers, Dewatering Plans and Schedules. Available online at: http://www.nwd-wc.usace.army.mil/tmt/documents/FPOM/2010/Plans%20lists%20charts/