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A | 200432 | 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 | 0.10% | 04/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
B | 200433 | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | SOW and Budget for FY 2021 | Draft and Final Scope of Work and Budget, Spending Plan and Property Inventory for contract renewal. Accrual estimate for ongoing contract and budget. | $3,000 | 0.31% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
C | 200434 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Produce NEPA Checklist and Regulatory Clearances to BPA | • Coordinate with ODFW and NOAA staff to receive a 4(d) take permit.
• Provide a copy of the 4(d) permit to BPA
• 4(d) take report
• Provide a copy of the Section 6 bull trout coverage to BPA.
• Coordinate with BPA staff to get NEPA Clearance | $5,000 | 0.51% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
D | 200435 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Collect Chinook Salmon and Steelhead Outmigrant Abundance and SAR Data at Rotary Screw Traps | Collect and enumerate emigrating spring Chinook and steelhead smolts using rotary screw traps. Traps will be located on the Middle Fork (2), upper Mainstem (2), and the South Fork John Day River (1).
Estimate trap efficiency and HUC or management unit abundance of emigrating juvenile Chinook and steelhead.
Scale sample steelhead juveniles that migrate past capture locations to determine age structure of the populations and to be able to detect changes in age structure (e.g. due to density). | $180,000 | 18.44% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
E | 200436 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Monitor/Maintain PIT Tag Interrogation Arrays | • Monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain PIT tag arrays located: 1) in the Middle Fork John Day River near Armstrong Creek and Ritter (MJ1 and MJ2); 2) Mainstem John Day River (JDM and JD1); 3) Lower Thirtymile Creek (30M); 4) Lower Rock Creek (RCX); 5) South Fork John Day River (SJ1 and SJ2); 6) Bridge Creek (Wheeler County-BR0 and BR1), and 7) Cottonwood Creek (JDC).
• Perform routine maintenance and system checks for Passive Instream Arrays.
• Conduct periodic read range and antenna performance testing.
• Ensure PIT tag data is uploaded and backed-up. | $70,000 | 7.17% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
F | 200437 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Collect Steelhead Spawner Survey and Adult Escapement Data | Conduct steelhead spawning ground surveys to estimate steelhead escapement for the South Fork John Day River population.
Adult steelhead redd surveys will be conducted from February 15 - June 1 annually based on standard ODFW methods for conducting steelhead redd surveys (Susac and Jacobs, 1999; Jacobs et al., 2000; Jacobs et al., 2001). Twelve to fifteen sites will be visited every two weeks throughout the season to quantify the cumulative redd count at each site. Surveyors will sample upstream from the downstream end of each survey reach. Each surveyor counts live fish and determines the fin-mark status of all live fish through observations. All redds are counted and flagged. A representative subsample reach will be visited at a greater frequency to validate bi-weekly redd enumeration. Redds with spawners present will also be measured to develop a database of redd size for each life history strategy.
Additionally, we will conduct a census redd survey on the same temporal frequency in an 18 km section of Murderers Creek. This survey area will overlap an upcoming habitat restoration project area, and provide necessary redd distribution data to contextualize juvenile fish response to the habitat project. | $90,000 | 9.22% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
G | 200438 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Conduct Juvenile Steelhead Density Surveys | Conduct juvenile fish surveys using electrofishing and seining in the South Fork John Day and Middle Fork John Day basins, upstream of the screw traps in each basin. They are two of the five recognized populations in the basin. Juvenile sampling data for 2020 will be focused on key restoration project areas in the Middle Fork basin, and in Murderers Creek (South Fork John Day). The Murderers Creek juvenile survey spatial extent will align with the spawner survey extent to pair juvenile and adult data.
Scales will be collected for age analysis. | $82,000 | 8.40% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
H | 203724 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Collect Fin Tissues From Non-Salmonids | Non-salmonid sampling in the Middle Fork basin will be part of the juvenile steelhead density surveys. Fin tissues will be collected from a variety of non-salmonid species (by-catch during the steelhead surveys) in the area surrounding the Oxbow Conservation Area. Increased use of constructed pools by northern pikeminnow, smallmouth bass and other non-salmonids has spurred interest in a bioenergetics investigation of the fish community using restored reaches of the Middle Fork. Evaluation of the abundance and bioenergetics relationship among the fish community will provide evaluation of key components of the Oxbow habitat projects (e.g., alcove and side channel units), and guidance for use of slow-water habitat features in forthcoming restoration projects. | $3,000 | 0.31% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
I | 200439 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Use Seines to Collect Spring Chinook Smolts | The intent of this WE is to quantify wild smolt abundance for all populations (North Fork, Granite Creek, Middle Fork, Upper John Day) of spring Chinook salmon the John Day basin. Yearling spring Chinook smolts from all populations in the John Day River basin must emigrate through the Kimberly-Spray portion of the John Day River, and typically migrate through this area between February and May. The Kimberly to Spray reach of the river is low gradient, which facilitates boat seining as an effective means of capturing Chinook smolts. Enough Chinook smolts can be captured in this reach to monitor changes in abundance, size and migration timing across years.
Abundance data collected via seining are used to estimate total abundance of outmigrating spring Chinook smolts and spawner-smolt recruitment analysis, which quantify population productivity. Marking approximately 1,500 Chinook smolts with PIT tags facilitates pre- and post-season estimation of adult escapement to the Columbia and John Day rivers. | $70,000 | 7.17% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
J | 200440 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Collect Fish Habitat Data | In support of habitat restoration, rehabilitation and conservation action performance assessments and adaptive management requirements of the 2008 FCRPS Biological Opinion (BiOp), the Bonneville Power Administration is working with NOAA and other regional fish management agencies to monitor status and trends of fish habitat for each major population group (MPG) in the Pacific Northwest identified through the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The goal of this work element is to conduct habitat surveys in the Middle Fork and South Fork John Day River. In the Middle Fork, habitat monitoring will be at restoration projects and paired control sites. In the South Fork, during 2020 we will focus on a spatially extensive, contiguous survey of a portion of Murderers Creek. Broad scale survey in Murderers Creek will leverage past reach-scale sampling to provide a better picture of how reach scale habitat surveys represent landscape scale conditions, and provide broader data for evaluation of Murderers Creek habitat projects planned by USBOR. When combined with parallel fish monitoring metrics, these habitat data (in both the Middle Fork and South Fork) will also be used to assess the impact of habitat management actions on fish population processes. | $63,000 | 6.45% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
K | 200441 | 158 | Mark/Tag Animals | PIT Tag Juvenile Chinook Salmon | We will PIT tag approximately 4,500 juvenile spring chinook (yearling and subyearling) in the John Day River basin. Approximately 1,000 juvenile Chinook outmigrants will be PIT tagged at the Mainstem Screw trap operated under Work Element D. Another roughly 1,500 Chinook smolts will be PIT tagged during the seining under Work Element H. Approximately 2,000 Chinook parr will be PIT tagged in the Upper Mainstem John Day River during August 2020 in cooperation with the Warm Springs Tribes. Data from PIT tagged parr will be used to estimate abundance, growth, and survival. These data provide important population vital rate information, and provide a measure of population response to habitat alterations. | $55,000 | 5.63% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
L | 200442 | 158 | Mark/Tag Animals | PIT Tag Emigrating Steelhead Smolts at Rotary Screw Traps | PIT tag approximately 6,750 wild out-migrating juvenile steelhead at the four rotary screw traps operated under Work Element D. | $52,257 | 5.35% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
M | 202276 | 158 | Mark/Tag Animals | PIT Tag Pikeminnow | Pikeminnow in the Middle Fork of the John Day River in and around the Oxbow Conservation Area will be PIT tagged to determine seasonal movements, habitat use and potential impacts to juvenile anadromous salmonids. | $3,000 | 0.31% | 02/01/2020 | 10/30/2020 |
N | 202277 | 158 | Mark/Tag Animals | PIT Tag Smallmouth Bass | Smallmouth bass in the Middle Fork of the John Day River in and around the Oxbow Conservation Area and at the Ritter rotary screw trap site will be PIT tagged to determine seasonal movements, habitat use and potential impacts to juvenile anadromous salmonids. | $2,000 | 0.20% | 02/01/2020 | 10/30/2020 |
O | 200443 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Estimate Smolt Abundance, Productivity, Age, and SAR | We analyze smolt trapping and seining (for Chinook only) data to estimate out-migrant abundance. Out-migrant estimates are plotted against parental spawner abundance to estimate freshwater productivity. Out-migrants per spawner will be used to conduct stock-recruitment curves for assessment of population productivity and temporal trends in productivity.
Scale subsamples from out-migrant steelhead are aged using conventional methods to assign fish to cohorts through use of an age-length key.
PIT tag detections at John Day (juvenile bypass system) and Bonneville (adult fish ladders) dams are collected from PTAGIS and DART to estimate smolt to adult survival ratios (SAR) for John Day River origin summer steelhead and spring Chinook salmon. John Day River SAR ratios are estimated from smolt detection at John Day Dam to adult detection at Bonneville Dam. | $90,000 | 9.22% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
P | 200444 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Estimate Steelhead Escapement and Redd Density | Data from field surveys will be compiled to provide population metrics of steelhead status. Quantitative metrics include estimates of adult spawner escapement, redd density estimates, spatial structure and diversity (PHoS). | $90,000 | 9.22% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
Q | 202278 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Conduct Stable Isotope Analysis on Non-Salmonids | Stable Isotope analysis will be conducted on pikeminnow and smallmouth bass tissues collected in the Middle Fork John Day River at or near the Oxbow Conservation Area. This analysis will help determine the diets of these fish and in order to assess their impacts on juvenile steelhead and spring Chinook populations. It will ultimately help guide future restoration that will not result in improved pikeminnow and bass habitat. | $20,000 | 2.05% | 02/01/2020 | 01/31/2021 |
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