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| A | 116176 | 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. | $1,250 | 0.89% | 10/01/2013 | 05/31/2014 |
| B | 113368 | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Manage and Administer Project | Covers the administrative and technical work by the contractor to fulfill BPA's programmatic and contractual requirements such as financial reporting (accruals) and development of an SOW package (includes SOW and budget).
University of Washington (UW) staff will meet with NOAA contract staff approximately bi-monthly to discuss progress on the various aspects of the research project. Discussions will include on-going efforts to maintain cost-effectiveness and synergy among the project components.
Data will be provided to NOAA staff for statistical analyses, interpretation and report writing.
Other management and administration tasks include tracking budget expenditures, communicating with the BPA Project Manager to track progress and identify any potential problems. | $12,770 | 9.12% | 06/01/2013 | 05/31/2014 |
| C | 113369 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Improve survival and reduce fitness loss | A realistic assessment and comparison of S1 and S2 smolt programs requires study at the production level in a hatchery setting. The hatchery-scale research we propose will be conducted at the USFWS Winthrop National Fish Hatchery (WNFH) located in the Methow River watershed that enters the Columbia River at river mile 524. The WNFH uses the same stock of steelhead to produce both S1 and S2 smolts, but uses different collections between rearing strategies. The construction of Wells dam restricted natural migration and homing of returning adult steelhead to the Okanogan and Methow River. Three hundred thousand Wells stock hatchery steelhead are released annually throughout the Methow River Basin, and broodstock for the Winthrop National Fish Hatchery have come from eggs provided by the Wells hatchery program. Therefore steelhead collected at Wells Dam and from the upper Methow River are now a composite of the original Methow and Okanogan populations and are not genetically different. There are however environmental differences in how the broodstock are handled to achieve production of S1 and S2 smolts. The adult steelhead used to produce S1 smolts are collected and held at the Wells Dam hatchery in the fall the year prior to spawning. Adults used for S1 production mature in warmer water than at WNFH and are treated with gonadotropins to promote maturation in February. Broodstock for the S1 production group are artificially spawned and the eggs are incubated at the Wells Dam hatchery to the eyed stage and are transferred to WNFH for final incubation. The combination of advanced spawn timing and warmer incubation temperatures achieved by collection and incubation at Wells Dam hatchery are necessary to produce S1 smolts at the WNFH. The adults used to produce S2 smolts are collected by angling in the upper Methow River in April and May and are artificially spawned at the WNFH. Collection of naturalized adults from the upper Methow River for the S2 program was initiated to better serve the conservation mission of the WNFH. The embryos for the S2 program are incubated and raised to age 2 smolts exclusively at the WNFH. During the years of this study, the populations used for the S1 and S2 programs are essentially the same genetic stock. The hatchery-scale experiment will evaluate three brood years (BY2011 through 2013) of steelhead reared using S1 and S2 protocols.
We will monitor the effectiveness of both rearing strategies by measuring selection on body size, rates of smoltification and precocious maturation, and post-release migration behavior, residualism, and migratory survival. This experiment is a collaboration between University of Washington and NOAA scientists. University of Washington staff assist NOAA staff in collection of physiological samples and perform all laboratory analyses to thoroughly assess the effects of the rearing regimes on quality of smolts and rates of early male maturity. | $62,365 | 44.55% | 06/01/2013 | 05/31/2014 |
| D | 113370 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Identify behavioral and physiological traits under selection | UW staff will assist NOAA in conducting laboratory-scale research at the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Manchester Research Station to investigate the behavioral and physiological traits under selection in yearling (S1) and two-year (S2) smolt rearing programs. The laboratory research will be conducted using juveniles sourced from the naturalized broodstock at WNFH. During spawning, an additional 4,000 fertilized eggs will be collected by WNFH during the artificial spawning. These eggs will be transferred to the NWFSC Manchester Research Station upon reaching the eyed stage of development. The freshwater rearing facilities at the Manchester Research Station will be maintained, including replacement and or repair of worn or damaged components and upgrading the water quality sensors by NOAA staff. Methow Basin steelhead will be transferred to Manchester and raised to produce S1 and S2 smolts needed for behavioral and physiological experiments within this funding cycle. UW will assist NOAA in monitoring growth of S1 and S2 smolts, and sampling S1 and S2 smolts for behavioral and physiological experiments within this funding cycle. In addition UW will analyze samples collected from brood year 2012 S1 and brood year 2011 S2 smolts collected during the previous funding cycle (April 2013). | $62,365 | 44.55% | 06/01/2013 | 05/31/2014 |
| E | 113371 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Provide BPA Staff NEPA documentation | Covers any work by the Contractor to assemble, gather, acquire, or prepare documents in support of obtaining environmental compliance from BPA (such as filling out a NEPA Checklist, providing maps, drafting a Biological Assessment, obtaining permits, conducting public involvement activities, completing an archaeological survey, etc.). In all cases, environmental compliance work must be separated from all other work. It is not permitted to combine environmental compliance activities with any other work element. | $0 | 0.00% | 06/01/2013 | 06/01/2013 |
| F | 113372 | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Submit Progress Report for the period (January 2013 - December 2013) | The progress report report covering this contract will consist of providing NOAA staff with data on all fish samples collected, and laboratory analyses in the form of Excel spreadsheets and descriptions in Word documents on methods used for laboratory analyses. NOAA will perform final statistical analyses and interpretation of data for inclusion in the annual report to BPA for the NOAA contract on this project. Data collected between June 2012 and April 2013 will be provided to NOAA by April 1, 2013 for inclusion in the FY2013 Annual Report.
The BiOp RPA report will be completed under CR 237776 (by NOAA). | $1,250 | 0.89% | 06/01/2013 | 09/01/2013 |
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