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Summary

2020 Resident Fish and Sturgeon Project Review - NPCC Programmatic Issue #4
Name: Communication and Project tracking
Description: (ISRP Programmatic comment G) Communication and coordination among project sponsors, Bonneville and the Council is a critical component of the Program. The need for improved communication and coordination was a key issue identified in Part II of the 2020 Addendum, which stated explicitly that “Bonneville shall provide regular public information to the Council on project implementation, so that the Council can understand whether and how implementation differs from the work recommended after project review.” In its review, the ISRP also requested better communication and transparency on how, and to what extent, Bonneville implements the Council’s and ISRP’s project recommendations.
The ISRP also discussed the need for communicating information to practitioners and decisionmakers to guide future decisions. The ISRP noted the need for dissemination of information through publications, education and outreach efforts and other processes. As part of that communication effort, the ISRP recommended that groups of related projects develop synthesis documents that integrate multiple projects, analyze collective data, and create conceptual frameworks for future actions.
Communication, information sharing, and reporting are ongoing issues that the Council continues to address. Council staff and Bonneville staff have been working together over the last several months to re-establish regular communication protocols. These issues were identified as programmatic issues and recommendations in the 2019 Mainstem and Program Support Review and the 2018 Research Progress Review. These reviews highlighted the importance of supporting regional and sub-regional data management, storage and dissemination of information necessary for program implementation and assessment. They also identified the importance of synthesis documents for specific topic areas as a critical component of a program-scale research, monitoring and evaluation strategy.
Recommendation: 1. Council and Bonneville should continue to work together to re-establish a systematic approach and process for implementing Council recommendations, including project reviews and implementation.
2. Bonneville should support dissemination of project results through publications, workshops, trainings, and other forms of communication among practitioners.
3. The Council should explore ways to support development of synthesis documents and reports that will help advance the state of the science on specific topic areas.