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Contract 30437: 1998 007 02 GRANDE RONDE SUPP'L - LOSTINE M & E

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


	A	189	Coordination-Columbia Basinwide	Coordinate Lostine River Monitoring and Evaluation Activities within the Grande Ronde Subbasin	This work element coordinates Lostine River Monitoring and Evaluation activities with co-managers in the Grande Ronde Subbasin through participation in Grande Ronde Subbasin Technical Oversite Team Meetings and the Lower Snake River Compensation Plan's Annual Operation Plan.
	B	165	Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation	Ensure Environmental Compliance Requirements Have Been Met	Verify that work elements 157 and 158 are authorized under ESA Section 10 permits maintained by the Nez Perce Tribe or Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife before implementing field work activities. Work includes providing documentation of past activities and compliance and summaries of current activities to demonstrate environmental compliance (EC). In the past this has been accomplished with a phone call to the NPT Research Coordinator who verifies permitting tasks have been accomplished. Documentation consists of a summary of ESA take from previous year. Additionally, NPT ESA Section 10 and 7 permits will be provided to BPA Environmental Protection Specialist Mickey Carter (503.230.5699).
	C	119	Manage and Administer Projects	Manage and Administer the Project Contract	Complete tasks necessary for obtaining contract funding and tracking project expenditures.
	D	158	Mark/Tag Animals	PIT Tag Lostine River Hatchery Spring Chinook Salmon	PIT tag hatchery spring Chinook salmon (brood year 2006) produced by the Lostine River Conventional Program for estimating survival and arrival timing of the conventional stock of Lostine River hatchery Chinook salmon for migration year 2008.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened)
	E	159	Transfer/Consolidate Regionally Standardized Data	Submit Data to PTAGIS	Submit PIT tag and interrogation files created by the project to PTAGIS.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened)
	F	157	Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data	Collect Data for Monitoring and Evaluating Juvenile Spring Chinook Salmon	This work element covers all M&E activities that monitor the production and release of brood year 2005 Lostine River Chinook salmon in migration year 2007. The first set of data collected for brood year 2005 Lostine River Chinook salmon will occur during the pre-release sampling conducted in February of 2007. Each raceway of Lostine River Chinook salmon at Lookingglass hatchery will be sampled. A total of 50 from each raceway will be sampled for length and weight for estimating condition factors. An additional 100 lengths from each raceway are collected to estimate fork length distribution. And fin clip, coded wire tag, and VIE tag retention will be checked on a sample of 500 fish per raceway. The second set of data is collected as Lostine River Chinook salmon leave the acclimation ponds. Prior to ponding, the proportion of PIT tags per raceway is estimated. Tag codes from PIT tagged fish are detected as they leave the acclimation facility. This set of data is submitted by NPT to PTAGIS after acclimation has finished. A third set of data is collected at the ODFW screw trap downstream of the acclimation ponds. Recaptured juvenile Lostine River Chinook salmon are measured and weight for an estimate of size at emigration relative to natural Chinook salmon migrating at the same time. The recapture data is submitted by ODFW to PTAGIS in ODFW's tagging files. The purpose of the collected data is to compare natural and hatchery Chinook salmon migration performance (WE J).	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened)
	G	157	Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data	Collect Juvenile Spring Chinook Salmon Mainstem Interrogation Data	This Work Element (WE) was formerly part of WE F, Collect Data for Monitoring and Evaluating Juvenile Spring Chinook Salmon. Data collection for WE F efforts are directed at collecting data from juvenile Chinook salmon within the Lostine River. The new work element for 157 directs data collection efforts to gathering PTAGIS data from interrogation sites within the Snake and Columbia rivers (mainstem). Data collection efforts include gathering temperature and discharge data from the Lostine River for later analysis in WE 162.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened)
	H	157	Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data	Collect Data for Monitoring and Evaluating Adult Chinook Salmon	The protocols for handling captured Lostine River Chinook salmon is specified in the AOP described in Part B of the contract description with the co-managers, also defined in Part B, of the contract description. In addition to the AOP requirements, ESA permitting requires NPT to monitor the movement of Chinook salmon past the weir. NPT monitors the movement of Chinook salmon past the weir by conducting bank surveys twice a week. Surveyors walk approximately 400 yrds upstream and downstream of the Lostine River weir and make visual observations of Chinook salmon and record observations in a notebook. Adult data is collected at the weir from the first week of May to October 1 for the weekly report and WE J. The Lostine River M&E project leader also works cooperatively with ODFW to conduct spawning ground surveys in the Grande Ronde subbasin to gather data for trend analysis of the Lostine River Chinook salmon population and collect carcass data for estimating escapement and spawner distribution.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened)
	I	160	Create/Manage/Maintain Database	Manage and Maintain a SQL 2000 Database Structure for Archiving Collected Data	Append collected data entered at the weir in work element 157 to a SQL 2000 database that contains project data (1997 to current) and allows NPT Research and Production Personnel access to validated historic and current data.
	J	162	Analyze/Interpret Data	Prepare Data for Presentation in Technical Reports and Management Forums	Estimates and data summaries specified in Part B of the contract description will be prepared from data collected. The estimates and data summaries will be presented in the 2007 annual report to BPA with an interpretation of the results. All estimates produced for survival will be presented with 95% C.I. Any statistical comparisons will be considered significant at p<0.05.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened)
	K	132	Produce Progress (Annual) Report	Prepare and Submit an Annual Report to BPA	Prepare and submit an annual report for 2006 summarizing the project's methodology and results from 2006, and discussion of whether or not the data supports the assumption that supplementation is beneficial to natural populations. This report is due to the BPA COTR on March 15, 2007.
	L	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.