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Contract 28739: 1991-073-00 NATURAL PRODUCTION M&E

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	Sort Order	WE ID	Work Element Name	Title	Description	Primary Focal Species	Secondary Focal Species


	A	165	Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation	Project Permitting	Apply for all necessary ESA permits
	B	119	Manage and Administer Projects	Annual Project Planning & Administration	Project management and planning activities
	C	132	Produce Progress (Annual) Report	Annual Progress Report (FY 2005)	Finish editing and submittal of the FY 2005 annual report reporting all results, analyses, and recommendations from FY 2005 activities.
	D	185	Produce CBFish Status Report	Periodic Status Reports for BPA	The Contractor shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in Pisces. Reports shall be completed either monthly or quarterly as determined by the BPA COTR. Additionally, when indicating a deliverable milestone as COMPLETE, the contractor shall provide metrics and the final location (latitude and longitude) prior to submitting the report to the BPA COTR.
	E	132	Produce Progress (Annual) Report	Annual Progress Report (FY 2006)	Start production of FY 2006 annual progress report, incorporating all results, analyses, and recommendations from FY 2006 activities. This report will also incorporate an extensive review of the past five years of work and provide an assessment of each funded objective and the future direction for the study of natural production of Chinook salmon in Idaho.
	F	157	Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data	General Parr Monitoring	Statewide monitoring of salmonid parr abundance based on 4 tier prioritized system developed by Hall-Griswold and Petrosky (1998, Idaho Habitat/Natural Production Monitoring, Part1, Annual Report 1996). Approximately 100-150 streams should be surveyed annually. Of these, 46 are core streams that are sampled every year. Other streams are sampled as logistics and time allow. Technicians snorkel standard reaches (length varies) identifying all species and age groups within the reach. Depending on stream size, multiple snorkelers are employed to ensure all stream area is covered. General stream habitats quantified include stream width and length. Every three years, intensive reach habitat measurements are collected including habitat type, substrate composition, gradient, conductivity and channel types.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)	Bass, Largemouth (Micropterus salmoides), Bass, Smallmouth (M. dolomieu), Carp, Common (Cyprinus carpio) [OBSOLETE], Catfish (Ictalurus spp.) [OBSOLETE], Crappie, Black (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) [OBSOLETE], Crappie, White (P. annularis) [OBSOLETE], Cutthroat Trout, Westslope (O. c. lewisi), Freshwater Mussels, Kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka), Perch, Yellow (Perca flavescens) [OBSOLETE], Pikeminnow, Northern (Ptychocheilus oregonensis) [OBSOLETE], Sturgeon, White (Acipenser transmontanus) - All Populations except Kootenai R. DPS, Trout, Brook (Salvelinus fontinalis), Trout, Brown (Salmo trutta) [OBSOLETE], Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened), Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii), Trout, Rainbow (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Whitefish, Mountain (Prosopium williamsoni)
	G	157	Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data	Stock-Recruit Analysis	Collect data from cooperating agencies & internal IDFG personnel to support stock-recruit analysis of Snake River spring/summer Chinook populations. This objective examines the productivity of the freshwater life stages over the last several decades of data collection.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened)
	H	157	Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data	Collect Age Structure Data	Field & laboratory work to collect age/sex and length data from Snake River spring/summer Chinook salmon. Carcass surveys are conducted in cooperation with Idaho Supplementation Studies (BPA projects 1989-098-00, 1989-098-01, 1989-098-02, 1989-098-03) at ISS study sites, Chinook Captive Rearing Evaluation (1997-00-100) at project weirs, and IDFG and Forest Service personnel at traditional index redd count sites. Over 40 sites are sampled by project personnel or cooperators. Age is determined using sectioned fin rays for fish carcasses. Scales are used to determine age for live fish sampled at weirs. With the addition of scale samples, the bias of carcass collection will be determined using existing Weir. This bias will be used to correct the age at length for Chinook.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened)
	I	158	Mark/Tag Animals	PIT Tag Juvenile Steelhead Trout	Put PIT tags in juvenile Snake River summer steelhead trout to estimate smolt to adult survival in wilderness streams. After summer 2006, this work will be continued by project 1990-055-00. Four streams are identified to sample in 2006: Moose Creek, Camas Creek, Yellowjacket Creek and Chamberlain Creek. Each stream is visited once due to their remote nature, accessed by either airplane or hiking/horses. These streams were chosen from a larger sample of sites that had steelhead densities large enough to obtain a sample size >4000 in aggregate for placing PIT tags. Fish are captured by fly fishing, tagged, and held overnight to enumerate short-term mortality.	Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)
	J	160	Create/Manage/Maintain Database	Data Management	Database maintenance & management of the stream survey database and the carcass age/sex/length database. The standard stream survey database was developed to store stream survey data from the General Parr monitoring and associated data collections. It was grown to include other stream survey sites and is shared with other agency cooperators. The database is intended to allow easy access by fish managers and researchers to query the associated sample collections. The INPMEP is responsible for the database maintenance and management, however any additional needs beyond the scope of the contract are completed by the cooperating project. The carcass database includes all biological data taken or measured from fish sampled in the field as well as the associated laboratory measures (age).
	K	162	Analyze/Interpret Data	Project Data Analysis	Process and interpret data for annual progress report. The FY 2006 report will also include an assessment of the Natural Production projects objectives for the last five reporting years.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)
	L	159	Transfer/Consolidate Regionally Standardized Data	Data Queries and Summarization	Download & summarize PTAGIS data; conduct queries of IDFG databases and GIS data layers to information to project biologists for analysis, reporting and support of field activities.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)
	M	161	Disseminate Raw/Summary Data and Results	Professional Communications	On-going work to format project results for peer review.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)