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Assessment Summary

ISRP Assessment 2008-311-00-ISRP-20100323
Assessment Number: 2008-311-00-ISRP-20100323
Project: 2008-311-00 - Natural Production Management and Monitoring
Review: Fish Accord ISRP Review
Completed Date: None
First Round ISRP Date: 12/12/2008
First Round ISRP Rating: Response Requested
First Round ISRP Comment:

The proposal is insufficient for technical review. The proposal identifies several monitoring, evaluation, and production topics for investigation of future tasks and actions. The present proposal does not present sufficient detail for an evaluation of the proposed work. The data obtained from the monitoring elements, and the derived metrics estimated from the data appear to be appropriate for management decisions but the explanation and justification for these tasks is not adequate. This appears to be a proposal to do a proposal by identifying feasibility studies. Basic details should be provided to better justify and explain the proposed approach and expected outcomes. The current level of description is inadequate to determine what is being proposed and why. The culture and release of fish for testing supplementation appear to be of sufficient scale to warrant a Three-Step Review, compliance with Northwest Power and Conservation Council Artificial Production Review policies, and would likely require an HGMP. A comment in the steelhead project 2008-311-00b is also germane to the spring Chinook. The need for projects such as this is clear due to the required BiOp mitigation for hydro losses by doing offsite actions in the tributaries. In fact the 2000 BiOp was partially invalidated because the offsite actions were not certain to occur. The Accord Agreements are designed to make the actions reasonably certain to occur.

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