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| A | 198066 | 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. | $1,000 | 0.07% | 01/01/2020 | 09/30/2020 |
| B | 198067 | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Manage and Administer Project 1986-050-00 | Covers work to manage on the ground efforts associated with the project. Also covers administrative work in support of on-the-ground efforts and in support of BPA's programmatic requirements such as financial reporting and development of a SOW package (includes draft SOW, budget and property inventory).
Also includes First Aid training (including CPR & AED). | $9,425 | 0.68% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
| C | 198068 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | NEPA and Endangered Species Act Compliance | ESA coverage for fieldwork conducted by ODFW, WDFW and CRITFC is covered under Biological Assessments and Opinions covering spring and fall mainstem fisheries of the Columbia River. Report catches as required and complete applications as required for future field sampling. Submit supporting documents as needed for BPA's Environmental Compliance Group to determine environmental compliance status. | $400 | 0.03% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
| D | 198069 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | White sturgeon recreational fishery monitoring for Bonneville, The Dalles, and John Day reservoirs | Monitor sport fishery effort and catch in Bonneville, The Dalles and John Day reservoirs (Zone 6).
Sport harvest is monitored and estimated by using a modified roving creel survey approach. Sampling is conducted in Bonneville and The Dalles reservoirs, and that portion of John Day Reservoir from McNary Dam downstream to Arlington, Oregon, by one creel sampler hired by ODFW and three creel samplers hired by WDFW. A WDFW biologist coordinates sampling activities.
Creel surveys are scheduled throughout the week in a manner that assures sufficient observations are made for each day of the week over the course of the month. We aim to have at least three days of observations during the Monday through Friday period, and at least one day (though often both days) on the weekends. Creel samplers usually work 4 ten-hour days.
Surveys are limited to legal angling hours for white sturgeon (one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset) and the duration of the recreational white sturgeon retention season specific to each reservoir and year. Systematic counts are used to collect data on angling effort and anglers are interviewed to collect data on catch composition, catch per time, and to sample the catch for mark-recovery and biological data.
Angling effort (in hours) is estimated by counting anglers within representative index areas for each reservoir and expanding those counts to the entire reservoir by using data on index to non-index angler distribution patterns collected during aerial counts made during surveys conducted from 1987-1991. Counts are made of all bank anglers and sport-fishing boats within each index area. The average number of anglers per boat is determined from angler interviews. Angling pressure within index areas is counted once a day between 1000 and 1300 hrs and the count is expanded for angling effort occurring during the rest of the day using previously collected data on the hourly distribution of angling pressure through the day. Hourly distribution patterns were established from 1987 to 1991 when counts were made every other hour from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset.
Anglers are interviewed to collect data on catch composition and minutes expended fishing to calculate catch per hour. Boat anglers are interviewed once they return to boat ramps. Bank anglers are interviewed at the locations they are actively fishing. Harvest estimates are calculated as the product of observed catch per hour within a reservoir subsection and total estimated effort for that subsection. Harvest estimates are made for each angling method (bank/boat), reservoir subsection, and weekend/weekday type to account for differential catch and sampling rates. Harvest and angling effort estimates are derived weekly.
The species composition of each angler’s catch is recorded and all white sturgeon are measured for length. Each sturgeon is scanned for PIT tags using an electronic detector.
We try to sample at least 15% of the season’s sport catch, but we do not have a set number of interviews to achieve each day, week, or month. All anglers, regardless of species being fished for, comprise our target population, since we can’t always identify sturgeon-specific anglers during the index effort counts. Our capacity to interview anglers is limited to the number of individuals that our four samplers can contact during the day. We try to sample as many anglers as possible throughout the reservoir as long as we distribute the sampling among both bank and boat anglers. On some days there may be few if anyone fishing while on other days there will be hundreds of anglers.
Anglers have shown limited interest in fishing for sturgeon during periods of the year when retention is prohibited. We typically observe a 90% or greater drop in angling effort for sturgeon once retention closes. Retention season length can vary substantially among years and reservoirs. In 2012 the retention season lasted into November in The Dalles Reservoir. There is an exception to this pattern. Some individuals, along with guides, are keenly interested in catch-and-release fishing for over-legal size sturgeon that tend to concentrate immediately downstream of the dams during late-spring and summer months. They participate in this activity whether or not retention is allowed. We have implemented spawning sanctuaries, where no sturgeon fishing is allowed, to protect spawners from the stress of being handled in this fishery. The fishery tends to locate immediately downstream of the sanctuaries. We sample anglers participating in this fishery if the reservoir is still open to retention. | $512,000 | 36.99% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
| E | 198070 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Tribal white sturgeon fishery monitoring for Bonneville, The Dalles, and John Day reservoirs | Monitor Tribal commercial and subsistence fishery effort and catch in Bonneville, The Dalles, and John Day reservoirs (Zone 6). Conduct Zone 6 tribal commercial and subsistence fishery sampling. Activities include compiling fish receiving tickets to estimate harvest; conducting counts to estimate level of participation; sampling landed catch to estimate numbers, sex, stage of maturity, lengths, weights and ages of fish harvested; documenting numbers of tagged fish harvested to estimate exploitation.
The Zone 6 commercial fisheries are solely tribal. There are no non-Indian commercial fisheries allowed above Bonneville Dam. Buyers are required to report the reservoir code that the fish came from on the landing ticket, along with the name of the tribal fisher. Enforcement (both state and tribal) monitors the fishery. Only tribal fishers are allowed to use the in lieu sites to launch their boats. Tribal fishing sites are mostly assigned to individuals or families, and the gear is laid out from the buoys or structures the tribal members leave at their site. Tribal boats are easily distinguished from recreational boats, which allows us to exclude them during the recreational fishery index counts.
Buyers are required to document information on numbers and weight of fish purchased through WDFW and ODFW fish ticket systems. A portion of total landings are examined by tribal and WDFW/ODFW samplers for tag-recovery purposes and to collect biological data.
The tribal commercial sturgeon fisheries in Zone 6 are subject to Quick Reporting, i.e., buyers are required to daily report their purchases to WDFW or ODFW regional fish managers. The reported number of fish landed is often inaccurate. This is because the business transaction involves a price per pound, so poundage landed is the accurate measure. Once a landing starts getting to be more than a dozen fish, the accuracy of the count tends to diminish. To obtain a more accurate estimate of numbers of sturgeon landed, we apply an average weight per fish landed to the reported poundage landed. The average weight per fish is obtained from our sub-sampling.
Most commercial sampling efforts strive for 20% sample rate. We typically achieve that level of sampling in each reservoir, and often exceed 50% sampling. In some years, new buyers will show up in the Zone 6 area, and drive around looking for business. Because their location and schedule is always changing, we encounter problems accessing their fish for a while until the samplers establish a relationship with those ephemeral buyers.
The sturgeon commercial fisheries usually wrap up within 3 months, with a January setline season open daily, and a February to mid-March setnet season open daily (open 24 hrs per day). On occasion, there may be some fish left on harvest guidelines after the March close to the setnet season. The tribes will usually hold a setline fishery in the summer or fall to catch those remaining fish. This would also be open daily.
The tribal landings are sampled almost every day by tribal samplers. Buyers are often not around or closed on Sunday, so weekend coverage may be limited. Landings during summer/fall setline fisheries are typically sampled by crews targeting salmonid landings. Setline landings tend to be sampled at a lower rate when they are the only fishery open. At these times landings are often sporadic and lower in number. As such, buyers are less likely to delay processing until someone from our Portland area office drives up to sample the fish. | $35,194 | 2.54% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
| F | 198071 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Use population assessments to plan for fishery management activities in BON, TDA, and JDA | Technical support for a process involving the interagency-tribal Sturgeon Management Task Force for review and adoption of an annual management plan designed to protect and enhance white sturgeon populations in Bonneville, The Dalles, and John Day reservoirs (Zone 6). WDFW collaborates with ODFW to develop tables and written description of recreational fishery effort and harvest. Estimates of harvest and other population characteristics (including reservoir specific abundance and size composition) presented to the Sturgeon Management Task Force. | $124,250 | 8.98% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
| G | 198072 | 158 | Mark/Tag Animals | White sturgeon PIT tagging | Tag white sturgeon with PIT tags during stock assessment sampling in Bonneville Reservoir.
ODFW, CRITFC and WDFW work jointly to mark up to 7,000 white sturgeon. | $194,100 | 14.02% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
| H | 198073 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | The Dalles Reservoir white sturgeon stock assessment sampling | ODFW lead with WDFW and CRITFC assisting to collect and summarize data to describe white sturgeon abundance and population characteristics (size distribution, size, condition factor, distribution, and observed growth of recaptures) in The Dalles Reservoir. Field work consists of fall/winter gillnetting to tag fish and spring/summer set-lining to tag additional fish, recapture fish, and collect data to allow characterization of population size structure and individual growth rates.
Actual tagging and marking is a separate work element. | $325,175 | 23.49% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
| I | 198074 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | John Day reservoir white sturgeon stock assessment data summary and analyses | ODFW is the primary agency responsible for stock assessment analyses.
ODFW will work collaboratively with WDFW and CRITFC to update the white sturgeon abundance estimate in John Day reservoir.
Data from John Day Reservoir was collected in FY2019. Data collected under WE H will be analyzed in FY 2020. | $70,727 | 5.11% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
| J | 198075 | 156 | Develop RM&E Methods and Designs | Update population projection and population dynamics models | Incorporate existing and newly acquired information into models for projecting and describing populations. Develop and refine models as needed for fisheries management and planning. | $10,300 | 0.74% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
| K | 198076 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Age-0 gillnetting | Conduct sampling for juvenile white sturgeon with gill nets (112 overnight sets in three Columbia River reservoirs) to determine relative year-class strength. ODFW jointly with WDFW and CRITFC will index the abundance of Age-0 (young-of-the-year) white sturgeon in Bonneville, The Dalles and John Day reservoirs. Use gill nets to capture fish at 12-40 sites per reservoir. Sample each site up to three times.
Continuing through FY2018, sampling for juvenile white sturgeon in McNary Reservoir has been suspended due to limited BPA Project funding. | $74,903 | 5.41% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
| L | 198077 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Compare annual recruitment (Age-0) data to environmental correlates | Describe relative year-class strength using Age-0 white sturgeon index sampling data from Bonneville, The Dalles, and John Day reservoirs. | $1,800 | 0.13% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
| M | 198078 | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Submit Annual Report for calendar year 2019 | Annual reports submitted to BPA.
The reporting period is January through December 2019.
The progress report summarizes the project goal, objectives, hypotheses (for research), completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and long-term planning. Examples of long-term planning include future improvements, new directions, or any ramping up or ramping down of contract components or of the project as a whole.
RM&E Technical Progress reports must conform to BPA guidelines. See the "RME Technical Reporting" link at: http://www.cbfish.org/Help.mvc/GuidanceDocuments. | $25,000 | 1.81% | 10/01/2019 | 09/30/2020 |
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