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A | 131757 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Produce environmental compliance | Obtain Federal, Tribal, State, and Local permits necessary to complete the project work elements. Inform BPA environmental compliance officer of all permits. | $3,494 | 0.53% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
B | 131758 | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Manage and administer the White Sturgeon Enhancement Project | Manage on the ground white sturgeon recovery work for the Colville Confederated Tribes to ensure project work elements and milestones are completed. Prepare scope of work, equipment inventories, and budget for fiscal year 2014 White Sturgeon Enhancement Project work. Prepare September accrual estimates as requested by Bonneville Power Administration. | $25,000 | 3.78% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
C | 131759 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Stock Assessment (setline) | Assist the Spokane Tribe's Lake Roosevelt Sturgeon Recovery Project (1995-027-00) with periodic stock assessments intended to estimate the abundance, survival, growth, condition, distribution, and reproductive potential of white sturgeon in the Transboundary Reach. The surveys will be standardized, coordinated, and conducted simultaneously in both the Keenleyside and Roosevelt reaches. Stock assessments will be coordinated through the UCWSRI Technical Working Group. The CCT, under this project, will play a supporting role in the surveys by providing field staff, equipment, and technical advice. CCT participation will increase overall sampling effort and sample sizes leading to improved precision in 1) capture-recapture abundance and survival estimates, and 2) estimates of growth and condition indices. Stock assessment study design, analysis, and implementation will be led by the STOI Lake Roosevelt Sturgeon Recovery Project (1995-027-00) in Washington and by BC Hydro in British Columbia.
Surveys will employ a spatially balanced, stratified random sampling strategy (general random tessellation stratified [GRTS] design) and standardized setline gear. There will be two capture-recapture occasions: one in the spring and one in the fall. During each survey occasion, approximately 160 overnight setline sets will be completed. All sturgeon will be weighed (kg), measured for fork length (cm), and scute marks and PIT tags will be applied if not already present. PIT tags will be supplied by the Spokane Tribe. | $120,000 | 18.16% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
D | 131760 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Sub-yearling (juvenile) monitoring (gill netting) | The CCT WSEP will assist the Spokane Tribe of Indians' (STOI) Lake Roosevelt Sturgeon Recovery Project (1995-027-00) with annual subyearling (recruitment) indexing to estimate recruitment of white sturgeon in the Transboundary Reach to subyearling and yearling juvenile stages. The surveys will be standardized, coordinated, and conducted simultaneously in both the Keenleyside and Roosevelt reaches. The subyearling indexing will be coordinated through the UCWSRI Technical Working Group. The CCT, under this project, will play a supporting role by providing field staff and equipment (one boat and crew), as well as technical advice. CCT participation will increase overall sampling effort and sample sizes. Subyearling indexing study design, analysis, and implementation will be led by the Lake Roosevelt Sturgeon Recovery Project (1995-027-00) in Washington and BC Hydro in British Columbia.
The subyearling indexing will employ a spatially balanced, stratified random sampling strategy (general random tessellation stratified [GRTS] design) and standardized gill net gear (benthic gill nets comprised of multifilament nylon web 5.1 cm stretch measure, 91.5 m long [30.5 m panels], 3.7 m deep). | $222,222 | 33.64% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
E | 131761 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Hydrographic survey (habitat assessment) | CCT biologists and technicians, with the oversight of a subcontracted hydrographer, will complete the hydrographic surveys initiated in 2013 to collect river/reservoir bathymetry and bottom substrate type data in the upper portion of the Roosevelt Reach of the Columbia River in Washington (Kettle Falls to the International border). We will use a wide-swath multibeam echosounder (MBES) to collect the bathymetry and substrate information. Substrate classification software will be used to categorize the acoustic backscatter data. Underwater videography will be used to identify and confirm the dominant substrate type within each acoustic category. | $13,500 | 2.04% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
F | 131762 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Characterize river velocities (habitat assessment) | Colville Confederated Tribes biologists and technicians will measure river velocity in the upper portion of the Roosevelt Reach of the Columbia River in Washington (Kettle Falls to the International border) during the period when first-feeding larval white sturgeon are dispersing to rearing habitats (June - August). We will use an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) to measure the velocities, and the number and frequency of transects will be determined in coordination with a hydrologist. The velocity data will be used for future hydraulic modeling and characterization of habitats utilized by early life stages of white sturgeon. | $7,500 | 1.14% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
G | 131763 | 160 | Create/Manage/Maintain Database | Develop and maintain UCWSRI Data Management System | The historic, current, and future work related to Transboundary Reach white sturgeon has generated a substantial amount of data. Management of this data is identified as a core component of the UCWSRI. Currently there is a UCWSRI capture database that incorporates data from white sturgeon captures during stock assessment and subyearling gill net surveys. The remainder of the data is managed by individual entities in a series of disparate Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Vemco Vue databases. There is a need for an integrated UCWSRI relational database management system that encompasses data collected by all of the UCWSRI partners to assist with research, monitoring, and management activities. The CCT WSEP will lead (i.e. request for proposal [RFP] development, select subcontractor, contracting, facilitation) the development and maintenance of an integrated UCWSRI data management system, beginning in 2013. The data management system will include capture data from stock assessment surveys (setline, gill netting), early life history data (egg substrates, plankton netting, trawling), as well as aquaculture releases, broodstock spawning matrices, telemetry data (detections), environmental conditions from monitoring, macroinvertebrates, and habitat. Eventually, it will have a web-based interface for data upload, query, and download, QA/QC features, customized reporting tools, and tiered levels of access. The database management system will have the flexibility to be linked or provide customized exports to other database efforts in the Columbia Basin, such as the Colville Tribes Resident Fish Database (1995-011-00), PTAGIS (1990-080-00), the Upper Columbia Resident Fish Stock Status Above Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee Dams Database (1997-004-00), and Hydra. It will also have a component that facilitates public access to some data, such as for school children to search for data related the sturgeon they released at one of the release events and data collected via BPA funded projects. We will develop a subcommittee of interested UCWSRI partners to participate in the design phase.
We expect that the data management system development will occur in phases over two or three years. In 2013, we developed and advertised an RFP, selected and hired a subcontractor, facilitated a UCWSRI subcommittee to assist with initial design, and the subcontractor built the data management system structure under the direction of the CCT and the UCWSRI database subcommittee. In 2014, our subcontractor, under the direction of the CCT and the UCWSRI database subcommittee, will complete database development, develop a data approval process, develop queries, exporting and importing tools, develop tiered security, populate the database with historical data, develop custom reports, produce a user's manual, and provide training to appropriate users.
The UCWSRI database could form the framework for a Columbia Basin White Sturgeon Data Management System. A model basinwide data management system has been developed for pallid and shovelnose S. platorynchus sturgeon research, monitoring, evaluation, and aquaculture activities in the Missouri River system – the Sturgeon Information Management System (SIMS) (DeLonay et al. 2010). The SIMS provides “a robust platform for data collection, integration, maintenance, analysis, visualization, and distribution.” A similar data management system would benefit efforts to manage and conserve white sturgeon in the Columbia Basin. We propose to utilize the development of the UCWSRI database as the initial step in development of a Columbia Basin SIMS. We will work with the USGS, BPA Fish and Wildlife staff, and within the White Sturgeon Comprehensive Plan (Columbia Basinwide Management Framework) process to acquire input and participation from other researchers and managers working with white sturgeon, in an attempt to create a system that will meet the needs of users Basinwide. | $110,000 | 16.65% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
H | 131764 | 161 | Disseminate Raw/Summary Data and Results | Provide summary data to the UCWSRI TWG and other sturgeon researchers/managers | White Sturgeon Enhancement Project staff (CCT), Lake Roosevelt White Sturgeon Recovery Project staff (STOI), and Canadian researchers are working cooperatively to assess and recover white sturgeon populations in the transboundary reach of Lake Roosevelt and the Upper Columbia River. White Sturgeon Enhancement Project staff (CCT) will disseminate raw/summary data on white sturgeon populations and potential limiting factors to collaborators as needed to facilitate recovery of transboundary reach white sturgeon. Will also include presentations at professional meetings. | $99,292 | 15.03% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
I | 131765 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Bathymetric and sediment facies mapping | Hydrographic software will be used to post-process the MBES acoustic data to develop a digital terrain model (DTM; bathymetry).The MBES backsactter data will be analyzed using substrate classification software to develop the acoustic classes. The images collected from the underwater videography will be analyzed using image analysis software to assign substrate size to each acoustic class in the substrate classification software. All of the data will be geospatially referenced and exported to a GIS software program. The bathymetry and sediment facies maps will be developed in GIS. | $1,500 | 0.23% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
J | 131766 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Evaluate survival of larval sturgeon release groups | The bulk of sturgeon larvae produced in the Transboundary Reach during any given year emerge from the substrate to begin feeding in the upper Roosevelt Reach (river-reservoir transition zone) during July. The timing of emergence generally coincides with rapidly declining river discharge and reservoir refill - factors that collectively may limit downstream dispersal. Sampling efforts to date confirm larvae are not found downstream of the river-reservoir transition zone. Conditions in the transition zone are apparently not conducive to survival as evidenced by lack of subyearling or yearling captures during fall gill net surveys. However, detectable recruitment does occur in some years - most recently 1997 - when very high river discharge (>5,663 m3 s-1) coincides with emergence of first feeding larvae. This suggests dispersal may be a primary mechanism influencing survival and recruitment. This also indicates that suitable rearing habitat may exist in areas downstream from the river-reservoir interface.
We will investigate the larval transport/habitat mis-match hypothesis empirically by conducting paired larval release experiments. We will compare the relative survival of larvae released at two locations to the fall subyearling and fall yearling stages between two release locations: 1) the upper reaches of the river-reservoir transition zone (most likely the China Bend area) where naturally produced fish are known to be present each year (China Bend) and 2) in the upper reservoir (Kettle Falls area) where sampling efforts to date have indicated larvae are absent. This work is dependent on the CCT obtaining non-Federal funds for the purchase, marking, and release of the larvae. The relative survival of release groups to subyearling and yearling ages will be evaluated from catch (catch rate [CPUE] and proportion positive catch [Ep]) in fall gill net surveys. We will subcontract a statistician for assistance with analysis. | $1,500 | 0.23% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
K | 131767 | 122 | Provide Technical Review and Recommendation | Provide Technical Review for other UCWSRI projects and reports | Review project proposals and reports through the Upper Columbia White Sturgeon Recovery Initiative (UCWSRI) Technical Working Group (TWG). | $32,535 | 4.92% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
L | 131768 | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Submit Progress Report for the period Mar 2012 to Nov 2013 | 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.
Progress reports must conform to BPA guidelines. See the ''formatting guidelines'' link at the Technical Reports and Publications page: https://www.cbfish.org/Help.mvc/GuidanceDocuments.
If producing a technical report for this contract, a discrete experiment, or a peer-reviewed publication, use work element 183: Produce Journal Article. | $8,000 | 1.21% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
M | 131769 | 189 | Coordination-Columbia Basinwide | Participate in Columbia Basin White Sturgeon Management Process and UCWSRI Recovery Planning | Participate in the Columbia Basin White Sturgeon Management Framework process by attending the annual Columbia Basin Sturgeon Management meeting, also known as the Boardman meetings. | $9,500 | 1.44% | 12/01/2013 | 11/30/2014 |
N | 131770 | 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. | $6,619 | 1.00% | 04/01/2014 | 11/30/2014 |