This contract period from Feb. 1, 2019 through April 30, 2020 would continue programmatic objectives for the coho reintroduction program. Duties to include primary O&M activities such as acclimation, adult collections and spawning and early egg incubation in both the Methow and Wenatchee basins. Other actions are included as well (e.g.- carcass out planting, etc.) but are part of these overarching program goals and objectives. The 2019 calendar year of events is that the Methow program will continue to prepare for a transition to the Natural Production Implementation Phase (NPIP), which will be to release 1 M juvenile production in the spring.  This will be the first year of NPIP implementation for the Methow program. The Wenatchee program continues to work through the Broodstock Development Phase Two (BDPII) of the program and will look to repeat project-specific studies to try and determine if a contingency can be implemented if adults are unable to ascend Tumwater Canyon at the rate required to meet BDPII objectives.
CR activities to include: Pre-smolt hauling through ODFW subcontract, fish rearing/acclimation, broodstock collection, spawning, incubation, transportation of eyed eggs to LCR facilities, facility oversight/operations, annual non-technical production reporting (both in WEN and MET but also to include rearing summaries through USFWS subcontracting).