Planning Team- Columbia and Snake River Fall Chinook Passage Studies

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Fall Chinook Passage Studies Planning Team Activities

• At the present time the planning team is comprised of the principal investigators identified on the consensus proposal, the Fish Passage Center, ODFW and the Corps of Engineers. The Corps of Engineers has a key role in implementation of components of the Consensus Proposal by funding specific aspects of the research and analysis as discussed in the agreement.
  
  
• The US v Oregon parties and the Corps of Engineers have established a planning committee to implement the process and goals in the Long-term Framework for Evaluating the Responses of Snake and Columbia River Fall Chinook Salmon to Dam Passage Strategies and Experiences. The purpose and goal of the process and planning committee were established to determine a hydrosystem operation and fish passage strategy for Snake and Columbia River Fall Chinook that will meet the recovery and other management needs, through a regionally developed approach. Towards that goal, this plan was developed towards evaluating the performance of transportation of Snake River Fall Chinook relative to inriver migration under the current court ordered spill operation.
  
  
• The purpose of this framework is to:
  
  
  1. Establish a collaborative approach;
  2. Document key management questions regarding transportation and in-river migration of Snake River Fall Chinook and Columbia River bright fall Chinook salmon;
  3. Document key management decisions with a focus on fish passage routes;
  4. Document monitoring and evaluation objectives;
  5. Describe general experimental design;
  6. Points of agreement; and
  7. Points of disagreement and decisions to move forward.
  
  
• The Collaborating Parties are federal, state, and tribal agencies. The parties worked in three groups, policy, planning and a technical group. The role of the technical group was to establish the biological issues and study design, the planning group to develop the overall plan, and the policy group was meant to be the final decision making body.

Consensus Proposal to Evaluate Columbia and Snake River Fall Chinook Dam Passage Strategies and Experiences

Reports

2010 Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon Spawning Summary - January 31, 2011

Fall Chinook Planning Team 2010 Workshop Presentations

The Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon Workshop was held on May 26th and 27th, 2010 in Hood River, Oregon hosted by the Corps of Engineers. There were several presentations given by many of the agencies in the CRB region. The following lists and links the workshop presentations given on Day 1 (May 26th) and the workshop presentations for Day 2 (May 27th). Summary of the Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon Workshop Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon Workshop Agenda Day 1 - May 26th Workshop Presentations - Session 1 Life history characteristics of Snake River Fall Chinook salmon collected off the Oregon/Washington Coast; by Brian Beckman, David Teel, Joe Fisher, Cheryl Morgan, Edmundo Casillas; NOAA Fisheries, NWFSC Seattle, WA Short- and long-term impacts of PIT tags on hatchery Fall and Spring Chinook salmon; by Curtis Knudsen 1, Steve Schroder2, Mark Johnston3, Todd Pearson 2 and Dave Fast3; 1Oncorh Consulting, 2Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 3Yakama Indian Nation Review of Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon Spawning and Distribution by B. Arnsberg and P. Groves Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon Hatchery Production Overview by M. Schuck and J. Hesse Freshwater Life History of Natural Snake River Basin Fall Chinook Salmon by W. Connor and B. Arnsberg Day 1 - May 26th Workshop Presentations - Session 2 Winter Passage of Juvenile Fall Chinook Salmon in the Snake River Kenneth Tiffan, U.S. Geological Survey A study to understand the early life history of Snake River Fall Chinook salmon by D. Marsh, W. Connor, and W. Muir An Overview Of Snake River Subyearling Chinook Salmon Transport Studies, 2001-2004 by D. Marsh and W. Muir Evaluating the Responses of Snake and Columbia River Basin fall Chinook Salmon to Dam Passage Strategies and Experiences by J. Hesse Day 2 - May 27th Workshop Presentations Workshop on Methods for Analysis of Fall Chinook Salmon Data Application of the Classic CJS Mark-Recapture Model by Steven G. Smith, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Accounting for Capture Efficiency in Abundance and Run-Timing Estimation of Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon by John M. Plumb,1,3Christine M. Moffitt,a William P. Connor,2 Russell W. Perry,3 Noah S. Adams,3 and Dennis W. Rondorf3; 1USGS, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; 2 USFWS, Fisheries Resource Office, Dworshak National Fish Hatchery Ahsahka, ID; 3USGS, Columbia River Research Laboratory, Western Fisheries Research Center, Cook, Wa An Overview of the CSS Approach by S. Haeseker Sample catch probability, run and origin identification and life history terminology by S. Haeseker Lower Granite Equivalents, SAR, and TIR in the Presence of Overwintering Behavior of Juvenile Fall Chinook Salmon by Rebecca Buchanan; University of Washington Monitoring demographic rates for other upriver bright fall Chinook populations using PIT-tags by S. Haeseker Post-release Attributes of Natural and Hatchery Fall Chinook Salmon Subyearlings Released into the Snake and Clearwater Rivers by W. Connor

Corps of Engineers funded Fall Chinook activities for FY 2010

The following specific projects are funded by the Corps to support tasks associated with Objectives 1,2,3,4,5 and 7 of the consensus proposal Title: Evaluating the Responses of Snake River Basin fall Chinook Salmon to Dam Passage Strategies Agency Funded: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Project Leader: William P. Connor Title: A study to compare SARs of Snake River fall Chinook salmon under alternative transport and dam operational strategies Agency Funded: National Marine Fisheries Service Project Leader: Douglas M. Marsh and William D. Muir Title: PIT-Tagging Yearling, Subyearling Production, and Surrogate Groups of Snake River Fall Chinook Salmon to Evaluate the Responses of Snake and Columbia River Basin fall Chinook Salmon to Dam Passage Strategies and Experiences Agency Funded: BioMark Project Leader: Scott McCutcheon Title: Post release performance of natural and hatchery Clearwater River fall Chinook Salmon Agency Funded: Nez Perce Tribe Project Leader: Bill Arnsberg Additionally, the Corps hosted and provided facilitation for a phase II Fall Chinook salmon workshop in Hood River, OR.

Fall Chinook Planning Team Miscellaneous Documents

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