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| | A | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Environmental compliance for sampling in USA waters | Permit applications to NOAA Fisheries and to the Alaska Department of Fish and Games to collect juvenile salmon in Alaskan waters. | | |
| | B | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Project management | Manage and administer project including prepare and submit to BPA accrual exercise in September 2012. | | |
| | C | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Ocean surveys of marine conditions and juvenile salmon | Collect juvenile salmon and oceanographic data in coastal regions extending from the west coast of Vancouver Island to southeast Alaska and inshore fjord systems.
Three surveys are conducted each year onboard the CCGS W.E. Ricker or chartered vessels as part of the Canada-USA Shelf Salmon Survival Study to collect juvenile salmon and associated fish community, water samples for nutrient and phytoplankton analyzes, zooplankton, and oceanographic data:
1) a summer (June-July) survey to assess the ocean conditions experienced by juvenile salmon during the growing season, 2) a fall (October-November) survey to determine the growth rates of resident stocks, and
3) a winter (February-March) survey to measure energy and lipid depletion during winter and the significance of overwinter mortality.
Sampling conducted in Canadian waters has no U.S. ESA requirements. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Coho (O. kisutch) - Unspecified Population, Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened), Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) - All Populations | Chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - Columbia River ESU (Threatened) |
| | D | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Oceanography | Provide a physical, chemical, and biological characterization of the ocean environment encountered by juvenile salmon from the west coast of Vancouver Island to southeast Alaska.
Oceanographic data will be collected to test the theory that changes in water column stability and prey quality are driving the differential productivity of northern and southern regions of the Gulf of Alaska, and to predict how changes in climate and ocean conditions will affect the recruitment success of Columbia River salmon.
These analyses are performed in Canadian government laboratories and, therefore, there are no ESA requirements. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Coho (O. kisutch) - Unspecified Population, Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened), Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) - All Populations | Chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - Columbia River ESU (Threatened) |
| | E | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Biological attributes of juvenile salmon | Assess the stock of origin, the biological and physiological status of juvenile salmon in northern and southern regions of the Gulf of Alaska.
Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the declines in the marine survival of Columbia River salmon. Although the specific mechanism affecting the marine survival of salmon differs among these hypotheses, they generally indicate that lower marine survival of Pacific salmon is associated with lower marine growth during their first year at sea. To evaluate these hypotheses, it is thus necessary to:
1) estimate growth rates of Columbia River salmon,
2) measure the ocean conditions that they experience, and
3) assess how ocean conditions affect their growth, and by extension, their survival.
The fate of individual populations may thus depend on where they migrate in the ocean and the amount of time they spend in different regions of the ocean. Hence, an understanding of stock specific migration behavior is required to determine how climate and ocean conditions regulate the production of Columbia River salmon.
These analyses are performed in Canadian government laboratories and therefore there are no ESA requirements. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Coho (O. kisutch) - Unspecified Population, Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened) | Chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - Columbia River ESU (Threatened), Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) - All Populations |
| | F | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Ocean production | Analyze the extent of nutrient limitation resulting from changes in mixed-layer depth, decreasing salinity, and increasing temperature from the 1990s through 2011/2012, as well as changes in plankton community and quality resulting from changes in ocean circulation.
The La Niña conditions observed in FY11 are expected to subside in FY12 (http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html).
The shift between El Niño and La Niña events provide environmental contrasts necessary to evaluate the performance of marine survival and run size models developed under the Canada-USA Shelf Salmon Survival Study for Columbia River salmon, and serve as a natural experiment to predict how a warming of the ocean resulting from climate change will affect the production of Columbia River salmon. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Coho (O. kisutch) - Unspecified Population, Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened), Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) - All Populations | Chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - Columbia River ESU (Threatened) |
| | G | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Ocean ecology of salmon | Analysis of the biological and physiological status of juvenile salmon in northern and southern regions of the Gulf of Alaska, and assessment of the effects of climate and ocean conditions on the growth and production of Columbia River salmon.
The impact of the recent El Niño and La Niña events on the distribution, migration, abundance, feeding habits, and growth will be closely examined in FY12 in collaboration with the NOAA Fisheries Plume Study (BPA project # 1998-014-00) and the POST program (BPA project # 2003-114-00). These El Niño events provide a unique opportunity to assess the performance of Columbia River salmon in a warmer and changing ocean. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Coho (O. kisutch) - Unspecified Population, Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened), Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) - All Populations | Chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - Columbia River ESU (Threatened) |
| | H | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Marine mortality of salmon | Examine the relationship between the marine survival of Pacific salmon and the biological attributes of juvenile salmon and ocean conditions collected during the ocean surveys. These models will also serve as a control to evaluate the performance of mitigation activities conducted in the Columbia River Basin.
Run size and marine survival models have been developed under the Canada-USA Shelf Salmon Survival Study for Columbia River summer/fall Chinook salmon and coho salmon in FY08-FY11. It is necessary to evaluate the performance of the models, as they may break apart over time, especially when climate and ocean conditions are changing, and during El Niño events.
Special attention will also be given to Columbia River spring Chinook salmon and Snake River sockeye salmon, as current models fail to predict the return of these stocks. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Coho (O. kisutch) - Unspecified Population, Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened), Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) - All Populations | Chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - Columbia River ESU (Threatened) |
| | I | 161 | Disseminate Raw/Summary Data and Results | Data reports | Produce data reports for the ocean surveys conducted in FY10-FY12. These reports are a scientific legacy for the work conducted under the Canada-USA Shelf Salmon Survival Study. It is also a necessary precaution to ensure that paper versions of the original data collected as part of this project are preserved for future generations, especially with constantly changing electronic data storage mediums. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Coho (O. kisutch) - Unspecified Population, Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened), Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) - All Populations | Chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - Columbia River ESU (Threatened) |
| | J | 183 | Produce Journal Article | Primary publications | Produce and submit manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals on the environmental conditions experienced by juvenile salmon in the ocean, salmon bioenergetics and ecology. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Coho (O. kisutch) - Unspecified Population, Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened), Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) - All Populations | Chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - Columbia River ESU (Threatened) |
| | K | 161 | Disseminate Raw/Summary Data and Results | Presentation at scientific conferences | Presentation of significant results from work performed under the contract for fiscal year FY08-FY12 on the ocean ecology of juvenile salmon at the American Fisheries Society Annual Symposium, September 2012, or other suitable forum to disseminate results obtained in this project. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Coho (O. kisutch) - Unspecified Population, Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened), Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) - All Populations | Chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - Columbia River ESU (Threatened) |
| | L | 161 | Disseminate Raw/Summary Data and Results | USA-Canada collaboration | Develop an assessment of the regions of good or poor growth and survival for juvenile salmon with NOAA Fisheries scientists.
Samples collected in previous surveys are shared among laboratories throughout the year to enhance our understanding of the processes limiting the production of Columbia River salmon in the marine environment, to more effectively use the expertise of the research centers studying the marine life of salmon, to avoid duplication of efforts, and to promote international cooperation on highly migratory species that are co-managed by Canada and USA.
CDFO and NOAA Fisheries scientists participate at an annual workshop dedicated to the ocean ecology of juvenile salmon to exchange new ideas, report recent observations, and plan research activities among laboratories. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Coho (O. kisutch) - Unspecified Population, Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened), Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) - All Populations | Chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - Columbia River ESU (Threatened) |
| | M | 141 | Produce Other Reports | Produce joint project synthesis report | Coordinate with other projects and BPA/Council/ISRP to produce a synthesis report by the end of the 2011 calendar year. | | |
| | N | 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. | | |
| | O | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Produce annual report | FY11 FINAL ANNUAL REPORT:
Produce and submit to BPA COTR a final annual report that summarizes the work accomplished in FY11 contracting period (FY11 contracting period is Oct. 1, 2010 to Sept. 30, 2011). The final annual report for FY11 is due on Dec. 31, 2011. The draft annual report for FY11 was included in FY10 SOW and is due Sept. 30, 2011.
FY12 DRAFT ANNUAL REPORT:
Produce and submit to BPA COTR a draft annual report that summarizes the work accomplished in FY12 contracting period (FY12 contracting period is Oct. 1, 2011 to Sept. 30, 2012). The final annual report for FY12 will be included in the FY13 SOW and will be due Dec. 31, 2012.
Reports should include a summary and conclusions of the effects of ocean conditions on the growth of juvenile salmon. The marine distribution and migration of juvenile salmon will be discussed. | | |
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