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| A | 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. | | |
| B | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Environmental Compliance | Provide BPA with information necessary for environmental clearance for all contract activities during FY15. Submit FY15 SOW and supporting documents as needed for BPA's Environmental Compliance Group to determine environmental compliance status. | | |
| C | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Umatilla Fall Chinook Production Growth Modulation Expt. (Continuing) | Objective 1) Improve survival and reduce fitness loss in Columbia River URB Fall Chinook - Hatchery Scale Experiment
ODFW and CTUIR (Umatilla Hatchery Monitoring and Evaluation, BPA project # 1990-005-00) are conducting a 2x2 factorial design experiment exploring the effects of two different commercial feeds (18 and 12% lipid) fed at two different rates (7 days/wk, 4 days/wk) on growth/smolt physiology and incidence of male precocious parr and minijack maturation in yearling release URB fall Chinook salmon reared at Bonneville Hatchery for the Umatilla program over 4 consecutive brood years (BY 2010-2013). This SOW covers the continuation of monitoring of this multi-year project through May 20115. NOTE: The 4 treatments reared at Bonneville hatchery will be differentially tagged. In February 2015 they will be moved to the acclimation site at the Umatilla River and co-mingled. To necessitate sampling of each group separately through smolting or further in to the maturation process in maturing males, a subset of several hundred fish from each treatment will continue to be reared at Bonneville Hatchery for continued physiological sampling and a final maturation screen conducted in April 2015.
There are two goals for this study objective:
1. Determine the proportion of male Umatilla URB fall Chinook salmon undergoing early male maturation at age-1 (precocious parr and age 2 (minijacks). Each treatment group will be screened for minijack maturation just prior to release from acclimation sites by measuring plasma 11-ketotstosterone (11-KT) using the established method of Larsen et al. (2004).
2. Assess seasonal physiological status of fish in the feeding study to help determine how seasonal changes in growth rate and adiposity may affect the propensity of male URB fall Chinook salmon to mature as minijacks and the smolt development of non-maturing fish. Approximately every month throughout development we will sample representatives from each treatment for established physiological parameters including 11-KT (endocrine indicator of male maturation), plasma IGF-I (endocrine indicator of growth), gill Na+/K+-ATPase (enzyme indicator of smoltification), condition factor, smolt appearance, length, weight, whole body lipid (indicator of energetic status). These data will be used to assess the condition of fish from the three treatments and the control fish. Furthermore, these data can be used to correlate survival with physiological condition and life-history development to refine rearing regimes in Fall Chinook hatchery programs. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Fall ESU (Threatened) | |
| D | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Assess minijack rates of BY 2013 Snake River hatchery spring Chinook salmon (New) | Assess minijack rates of Snake River hatchery spring Chinook salmon.
During the previous contract period for this project we completed a publication enttitled: " Variation in minijack rate among Columbia River Basin Chinook salmon hatchery populations." by Harsted, Larsen and Beckman (in press). We measured the proportion of minijacks among males released from several spring- and summer-run Chinook salmon hatchery programs throughout the Columbia River Basin for brood years 1999 through 2010. The hatcheries surveyed included both segregated (only hatchery-origin broodstock) and integrated (some natural-origin broodstock) programs. Minijacks were found in all programs monitored, and rates varied approximately 10-fold across release groups ranging from 7.9 - 71.4% of males in spring Chinook salmon programs and 4.1 - 40.1% of males in summer Chinook salmon programs. There was a significant positive relationship between size at release and proportion of minijacks released from the integrated, but not the segregated spring Chinook salmon programs. Minijack rates were significantly higher in the integrated spring Chinook salmon programs compared to the segregated programs despite the fact that most of the integrated programs released smaller fish, suggesting that domestication selection for age at maturation has occurred in segregated programs. The potential of domestication selection to alter thresholds for early male maturation provides a cautionary message for supplementation programs. Supplementation programs are specifically designed to augment naturally spawning populations, increasing the number of adults in natural spawning areas. In the Columbia River Basin, an essential requirement of supplementation programs is to minimize alteration of the genetic and phenotypic characteristics of the supplemented natural population since these fish are often listed as threatened or endangered under the Federal Endangered Species Act. The high minijack rates we observed in the integrated and supplementation programs surveyed suggest that newly established hatchery populations, sourced from natural-origin broodstock, have relatively low thresholds (minimum size to initiate maturation) for early male maturation.
One large regional population sector that was not represented in the previously described study (Harstad et al. in press) are hatchery spring Chinook salmon populations from the Upper Snake River basin in Idaho. Co-managers throughout the upper Snake River basin have expressed concern that results form Harstad et al. (in press) may not be a universal finding applicable to spring Chinook in the upper Snake River. These concerns may be warranted in that Upper snake river stocks that may be reared to a smaller size at release than many Columbia River populations. In this current contract period we intend to conduct minijack surveys from two integrated and two segregated populations of Idaho hatchery spring Chinook salmon. In cooperation with Christine Kozjkay (Fishery Principal Research Biologist, IDFG) we intend to conduct surveys of the integrated and segregated South Fork Salmon River spring/summer Chinook salmon populations at McCall Hatchery, McCall ID and the segregated and one integrated populations at Sawtooth hatchery, Idaho. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer (not listed), Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened) | |
| E | 176 | Produce Hatchery Fish | Rear hatchery fish for growth modulation experiment #7 (Common Garden Expt.) | Study Title: "The effect of hatchery domestication on the potential for minijack maturation in spring Chinook salmon"
In September 2014 collect approximately 6 separate populations of Snake and Columbia River hatchery spring Chinook from a mixture of integrated and segregated stocks. Populations of interest where we have previously conducted minijack surveys or have made contacts with hatchery management. These include Integrated populations from Yakima R. (Cle Elum Hatchery, WA), Imnaha R. (Lookingglass Hatchery, OR), Snake R. (McCall Hatchery, ID), Segregated stocks from Wenatchee R. (Leavenworth Hatchery, WA), South Fork Snake R. (McCall Hatchery, ID), and population that is transitioning over the past decade to an integrated stock from the Methow R. (Winthrop NFH, WA).
1. Secure approximately 1500 eyed eggs from approximately 10 families from each population to ensure genetic diversity..
2.Transport eggs to the Northwest Fisheries Science Center experimental hatchery for final incubation at approximately 10C until ponding.
3. Pond all fish in triplicate 1.3 diiameter circular tanks with approximately 400 fry per replicate in spring (~February 2015)
4. Rear all tanks under identical rearing conditions from February 2015 to May 2016.
(Note - in spring 2016 all fish will be sacrificed for determination of length, weight, sex, testes weight to determine GSI of all males to determine minijack rates for all replicates and stocks.) | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered) | |
| F | 61 | Maintain Artificial Production Facility/Infrastructure | Maintain NWSFC hatchery for rearing fish for growth experiment #7 (Common Garden Expt.) | The objective of this WE (61) is to provide support for hatchery maintenance for production of fish for growth modulation experiment #7. Both University of Washington personnel under this contract and NOAA personnel under CR#273749 will assist with hatchery maintenance. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations | |
| G | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Project planning and coordination | This work element covers work to manage on-the-ground efforts associated with the project. It also covers administrative work in support of on-the-ground efforts and in support of BPA's program requirements such as financial reporting, and development of a SOW package (draft SOW, budget and property inventory). | | |
| H | 174 | Produce Plan | Hatchery management plan-covered by NOAA Fisheries | This hatchery management plan is required by Pisces because there is fish culture involved with this project. This requirement is covered by the sibling contract with NOAA Fisheries. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations | |
| I | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Progress Report submitted by NOAA fisheries | NOAA has lead cooperator responsibility for the deliverable under this work element. In addition to writing the NOAA portion of the report, NOAA will compile and provide final editing for all chapters of this report for the period 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2015 and submit the report to BPA. UNder this contract, UW will provide assistance to NOAA as required.
The progress report summarizes the project goal, objectives, hypotheses, completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and long-term planning. Examples of long-term planning include future improvements, new directions, or level of effort for contract implementation, including any ramping up or ramping down of contract components or of the project as a whole. | | |
| J | 141 | Produce Other Reports | Other Reports for BPA | NOAA has lead cooperator responsibility for the deliverable under this work element. In addition to writing the NOAA portion of the report, NOAA will compile and provide final editing for all chapters of this report for the period 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2015 and complete the report in Taurus. Under this contract, UW will provide assistance to NOAA as required. | | |