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| A | 210063 | 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. | $400 | 0.75% | 04/01/2021 | 11/30/2021 |
| B | 210064 | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Project Implementation Management and Contract Administration | This work element includes the administrative and technical work by the contractor to fulfill BPA's programmatic and contractual requirements. These include: implementation of the current contract SOW, managing a budget, and satisfying BPA contracting requirements, including preparing and submitting invoices and next year's statement of work and budget, maintaining a property inventory, providing accrual estimates, accounting for cost-share, etc.
WDFW will manage the day to day work on all active work elements. Covers all project management and administrative work related to contract implementation, including the supervision and training of staff, providing professional development opportunity, and adaptively managing implementation actions. | $2,000 | 3.77% | 12/01/2020 | 11/30/2021 |
| C | 210065 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Environmental Compliance Documentation and Clearance (WEs: C - H) | The statement of work for this project includes activities (Work Elements C - H) that require environmental clearance from the BPA Environmental Planning and Analysis Group (KEC).
Specifically, for this project, WDFW requests and reports take under under provisions of the 2019 CRS Biological Opinion, and previously under the 2014 Supplemental Biological Opinion.
Tagging of Tucannon hatchery summer steelhead, Tucannon River wild origin summer steelhead, or Tucannon hatchery spring Chinook, is covered under the monitoring and evaluation sections of the Tucannon River summer steelhead Hatchery Genetic Management Plan(HGMP), or Tucannon River spring Chinook HGMP, that have been submitted by LSRCP to NOAA Fisheries and have been finalized.
The HGMP for summer steelhead also covers activities such as adult trapping and biological sampling of steelhead at the Tucannon FH, spawning ground surveys, and smolt trapping on the Tucannon River. | $250 | 0.47% | 12/01/2020 | 11/30/2021 |
| D | 210066 | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Submit 2020 Technical Progress Report (01/01/2020 - 12/31/2020) | WDFW will produce an annual technical progress report for the work completed, showing cumulative results and synthesis for the duration of data collection/analysis and related studies or review.
BPA needs to have the reports finalized in March to align with its regulatory and compliance reporting timelines: a) your report should include the data, analyses, and data management completed by your project by December 31st; b) any activity after the last day of the Calendar Year should be included in a subsequent report (for example, if you have completed redd surveys, but have not completed the analyses, you will report the preliminary data, e.g., # of redds); and c) you do not need to rush your analyses; results may be reported in the subsequent report.
Updated reporting requirements apply to BPA fish and wildlife project sponsors who have the following work elements in their contract(s): 70 Install Equipment, 156 Develop RM&E Methods and Designs, 157 Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data, 158 Mark and Tag Animals, 159 Transfer/Consolidate Regionally Standardized Data, 160 Create/Manage/Maintain Database, and/or 162 Analyze/Interpret Data.
The (annual) progress report summarizes the project goal, objectives, hypotheses, completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, adjustments to implementation strategies, and long-term planning considerations. Examples of long-term planning include future improvements, new directions, or adjustment to the 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. | $3,250 | 6.13% | 12/01/2020 | 06/01/2021 |
| E | 210068 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | WDFW Adult Enumeration: Weir Operation for Asotin & Tucannon Steelhead populations | The Asotin steelhead population as identified in the Snake River Salmon Recovery Plan for Southeast Washington (SRSRB 2006) has three Major Spawning Aggregations (MSA) and three minor Spawning Aggregations (mSA), while the Tucannon steelhead population consists of one MSA and four mSAs (Figure 1, Table 1). Ongoing adult and smolt monitoring are being funded in Asotin Creek (BPA project #2002-053-00), the Tucannon River, and the mainstem Snake River by the Bonneville Power Administration, Lower Snake River Compensation Program, and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).
Asotin and Tucannon steelhead are sole populations within the Lower Snake River Major Population Group (MPG). Both populations include steelhead using small Snake River tributaries that have little or no fish monitoring. We may conduct adult steelhead sampling operations (active and/or passive) in Pataha (trib to Tucannon), Alkali Flat, Deadman, and Penawawa Creeks (independent Snake River tributaries; Tucannon steelhead population) and Almota Creek (Snake River tributary; Asotin Population). All of these tributaries are considered mSAs. Our adult monitoring opportunities are often limited by access via private landowners, and we may not be able to rotate trapping operations among tributaries as previously proposed.
Despite the comprehensive nature of these programs, uncertainty exists regarding the abundance and distribution of adult steelhead in unsampled tributaries, the biological association of those adults with core steelhead populations and the proportion of hatchery spawners in Asotin and Tucannon populations. Gathering this information is not practical during spawning surveys for steelhead, but is feasible with adult trapping. Without collecting the proposed adult abundance information we are unable to determine the population abundance baselines for Asotin and Tucannon steelhead or measure the progress towards meeting Endangered Species Act recovery. The inability to estimate total abundance does not meet the priorities of Viable Salmonid Population monitoring for ESA recovery (Crawford and Rumsey 2009), as required by the FCRPS BiOp.
The proposed project would provide the following information for the Asotin and Tucannon populations: 1) adult abundance,
2) the proportion of hatchery origin spawners, origin of hatchery fish from coded wire tags or PIT tags,
3) population age structure,
4) proportional distribution of the populations in MSAs and mSAs, and
5) contribute to genetic characterization of Snake River Basin steelhead (Project 201002600).
Adult enumeration will allow for the collection of critical data needed to assess stock status and productivity (e.g. run size, timing, age composition, sex ratios, etc.). Adult escapement data will be used as a primary means of monitoring for VSP levels as recommended by NOAA and the Salmon Recovery Plan for SE WA, etc. We will use the results from these adult enumeration sites in conjunction with results from spawning surveys and other escapement data collected for other portions of the Asotin and Tucannon populations to describe fish abundance, escapement, distribution, and productivity at the population level. Adult enumeration will be used to assess stock status and aid in full population level run reconstruction estimates. | $37,000 | 69.76% | 12/01/2020 | 11/30/2021 |
| F | 210069 | 158 | Mark/Tag Animals | Operculum Punch or Tag Steelhead Passed Upstream for Trap Efficiency Mark-Recapture Estimate | Adult steelhead passed above the trap would be marked (e.g. operculum punch, floy tag or both) to allow for mark-recapture of adults moving back downstream after spawning, or for carcasses found during redd surveys. Mark-recapture estimates would be used in calculating trap efficiency and overall escapement. | $1,000 | 1.89% | 12/01/2020 | 06/30/2021 |
| G | 210070 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Analyze Adult Steelhead Abundance & Life History Data for Asotin and Tucannon Tributaries to Estimate Escapement | The principle task under this work element is to put together available trap and redd survey data (from work elements listed above) to construct adult escapement, distribution of natural origin summer steelhead and the proportion of hatchery steelhead into these tributaries associated with the Tucannon and Asotin populations. These estimates will be compiled and incorporated with similar estimates for core Asotin or Tucannon steelhead populations to provide more complete estimates of adult abundance and escapement composition (proportion of hatchery and naturally produced fish, source of hatchery fish) over a period of years.
WDFW will also compile tissue samples and associated fish data collected at the trap site. Local staff will then coordinate with geneticists in WDFW, CRITFC and IDFG and share samples for DNA and SNPs analyses.
In addition WDFW will monitor stream discharge by taking manual stream flows while operating traps to evaluate steelhead run timing.
WDFW may also monitor temperatures at each weir site while we are operating traps to compare with run timing of adult steelhead. Temperature monitors will be assessed both before and after the season against a calibrated thermometer to check accuracy of the data loggers.
These are short-term data sets incidental to trapping activities and project purposes; monitoring information is site-specific data, intended to be used for review by WDFW for the limited purpose of evaluating trapping operations, relative to run-timing, and informing management choices, including near-tern adjustments to implementation actions and future strategies.
Continue to assess flow and temperature trends associated with trap locations; evaluate relative to steelhead run timing. Compile and summarize flow monitoring data during adult steelhead spawning returns; record, compile and summarize water temperatures at trap locations. | $7,500 | 14.14% | 12/01/2020 | 11/30/2021 |
| H | 210071 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | WDFW Steelhead Spawning Surveys in Asotin and Tucannon Tributaries | Note: this work will only be implemented if weir operation is not feasible or in areas where spawning distribution is unknown. Furthermore, access in these basins is difficult due to private landownership and lack of permission.
The Asotin steelhead population as identified in the Snake River Salmon Recovery Plan for Southeast Washington (SRSRB 2006) has three Major Spawning Aggregations (MSA) and three minor Spawning Aggregations (mSA), while the Tucannon steelhead population consists of one MSA and four mSAs (Figure 1, Table 1). Ongoing adult and smolt monitoring are being funded in Asotin Creek (BPA project #2002-053-00), the Tucannon River, and the mainstem Snake River by the Bonneville Power Administration, Lower Snake River Compensation Program, and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).
Asotin and Tucannon steelhead are sole populations within the Lower Snake River Major Population Group (MPG). Both populations include steelhead using small Snake River tributaries that have little or no fish monitoring. We will be sampling Pataha, Alkali Flat, Deadman, and Penawawa Creeks (Tucannon tributary) and Almota Creek (Asotin tributary). All of these tributaries are considered mSAs are not monitored for adult steelhead abundance or other Viable Salmonid Population (VSP) attributes. Our goal is to establish upstream migrant traps on at least two tributaries per year, and rotate them from stream to stream every three years.
Despite the comprehensive nature of these programs, uncertainty exists regarding the abundance and distribution of adult steelhead in unsampled tributaries, the biological association of those adults with core steelhead populations and the proportion of hatchery spawners in Asotin and Tucannon populations. Gathering this information is not practical during spawning surveys for steelhead, but is feasible with adult trapping. Without collecting the proposed adult abundance information we are unable to determine the population abundance baselines for Asotin and Tucannon steelhead or measure the progress towards meeting Endangered Species Act recovery. The inability to estimate total abundance does not meet the priorities of Viable Salmonid Population monitoring for ESA recovery (Crawford and Rumsey 2009), as required by the FCRPS BiOp.
The proposed project would provide the following information for the Asotin and Tucannon populations: 1) adult abundance,
2) the proportion of hatchery origin spawners, origin of hatchery fish from coded wire tags or PIT tags,
3) population age structure,
4) proportional distribution of the populations in MSAs and mSAs, and
5) contribute to genetic characterization of Snake River Basin steelhead (Project 201002600).
Adult enumeration will allow for the collection of critical data needed to assess stock status and productivity (e.g. run size, timing, age composition, sex ratios, etc.). Adult escapement data will be used as a primary means of monitoring for VSP levels as recommended by NOAA and the Salmon Recovery Plan for SE WA, etc. We will use the results from these adult enumeration sites in conjunction with results from spawning surveys and other escapement data collected for other portions of the Asotin and Tucannon populations to describe fish abundance, escapement, distribution, and productivity at the population level. Adult enumeration will be used to assess stock status and aid in full population level run reconstruction estimates.
We may conduct spawning surveys in selected tributaries where weir operation is not possible or effective, or where information on spawning distribution is limited. | $0 | 0.00% | 12/01/2020 | 11/30/2021 |
| I | 210072 | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Analyze Steelhead Spawning and Distribution Data in Asotin and Tucannon Tributaries | Note: this work will only be implemented if weir operation is not feasible or in areas where spawning distribution is unknown.
WDFW had originally planned to use redd count surveys on one stream (Almota Creek) to compare steelhead spawning survey estimates of escapement with trap estimates, and as a test to evaluate several different spawning survey designs and determine their precision and accuracy. This portion of the project will not be completed due to the fact that the first two years of sampling had high-turbidity stream flows that did not allow for spawning surveys, and we have now been denied access by a landowner.
Steelhead spawning surveys may still be conducted on an as needed basis to determine spawn timing and distribution in some areas. This data will be combined with trap data from previous work elements and used to fill data gaps for some tributaries of the Asotin and Tucannon populations.
WDFW will also compile tissue samples and associated fish data collected at the trap site. Local staff will then coordinate with geneticists in WDFW, CRITFC, and IDFG and share samples for DNA and SNPs analyses. This work is also in collaboration with BPA project 2010-050-00 and other LSRCP monitoring. | $1,636 | 3.08% | 12/01/2020 | 11/30/2021 |
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