50585: Rev 2: WE E: Work Element Summary

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Contract Number:

50585

Contract Title:

2003-017-00 EXP ISEMP - SALMON R. QUANTITATIVE CONSULTANTS

Contract Start Date:

12/1/2010

Contract End Date:

11/30/2011

WE ID:

157. Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data

Work Element Usage Report

Title:

E: 157 - Task 1A: Conduct juvenile seining and PIT tagging activities in the South Fork Salmon River.

Description:

This task funds the Quantitative Consultants, Inc. (QCI) to conduct seining/collection activities for the capture of juvenile anadromous salmonids at sites in the South Fork Salmon River and associated South Fork Salmon River tributaries. In order to ensure equal sampling effort throughout the watershed, site locations will be selected from the Idaho Master Sample List, which was developed using a generalized random tessellation survey design. This also allows the sites to correspond with those selected for other regional sampling programs, such as Idaho Department of Fish and Game General Parr Monitoring Program, to maximize sub-basin collaboration and collection effort efficiencies. Sites may also be selected to maximize PIT tag placement and sample sizes according to the experimental design.

At each selected site, a sample of the collected juvenile salmon and steelhead will be PIT tagged to enable life-stage specific survival estimates via recapture in subsequent seining/collection surveys, at rotary screw traps, extended length PIT tag arrays, and mainstem dam PIT tag interrogation facilities. Additionally, each PIT tagged individual will be weighed, measured for length, scales sampled, and life stage identified. Physical site description will include, at a minimum, site length, average width and depth from a minimum, average gradient, and proportion of major instream habitat types (pools, riffles, runs, rapids). Fish collection methods will not be limited to seining, in order to ensure adequate sample sizes crews may employ angling, electrofishing, and snerding.

WE Agreement Type:

Contracted

Deliverable Specification:

This work element will be considered complete when Quantitative Consultants, Inc. produces a report describing sampling methods, sampling locations and descriptions, and the number of fish sampled.

Additionally, completion of this work element requires the QCI to conduct quality assurance and quality control activities and subsequently to load all data into an automated template module in Microsoft access for transfer to the ISEMP status and effectiveness monitoring database as well as uploading PIT tag data to PTAGIS. Data will include:
1. geographic location of sampled sites (latitude and longitude);
2. total stream length surveyed;
3. number of fish captured by species, scale samples obtained, and life history stage;
4. length and weight for a sample of collected fish;
5. codes for deployed PIT tags, referenced to the individual records of tagged fish;
6. description and sample rate for other deployed marks;
7. recapture information for marked fish when encountered (length, weight, life history stage, and PIT tag code if applicable); and
8. physical instream habitat description.

All reports and data are due no later than 11/30/2011.

WSE Effective Budget:

$165,000

% of Total WSE Effective Budget:

8.97%

WSE Start:

12/01/2010

WSE End:

11/30/2011

WSE Completion:

11/30/2011

WSE Progress:

Concluded

WSE ID Continued From:

n/a

WSE ID Continued To:

n/a

Finite or Recurring:

Recurring

Budget History

SOWRevision	Planned	Updated	Contractor Comments (optional)	BPA Comments (optional)
1. 50585 (12/01/2010 - 11/30/2011)	$165,000	$165,000
Work Element Budget (Current Performance Period)	$165,000	$165,000

Milestones

4 Milestones

Sort	Type	Title	Start	End	Status	Modified By	Modified Date
A	EC	Environmental compliance requirements complete	12/1/2010	1/31/2011	Concluded	Sharon Grant (Inactive)	12/15/2010 9:55:54 AM
		Description: On-the-ground work associated with this work element cannot proceed until this milestone is complete. Milestone is complete when final documentation is received from BPA environmental compliance staff (completion can be based on pre-existing environmental documentation from BPA).
B		Task 1A1: Contact landowners to obtain permission to sample.	2/1/2011	9/30/2011	Concluded	Sharon Grant (Inactive)	12/15/2010 9:55:54 AM
		Description: Task 1A1 funds the project leader to determine land ownership at sites targeted for sampling. When sites are located on private property, the project leader will contact the landowner to obtain permission to sample. This milestone will be considered complete when landowners at all proposed and alternate sample sites have been contacted. If access is denied at selected sites, this activity will continue until access is granted at a sufficient number of alternative sites.
C		Task 1A2: Conduct seining surveys.	3/1/2011	10/30/2011	Concluded	Sharon Grant (Inactive)	12/15/2010 9:55:54 AM
		Description: Collection/tagging surveys will be initiated as soon as ice recedes, roads open, and stream access is possible. Surveys will continue until access is limited by road closures and ice formation.
D	DELIV	Task 1A: Juvenile sampling and marking data.		11/30/2011	Concluded	Sharon Grant (Inactive)	12/15/2010 9:55:54 AM
		Description: This work element will be considered complete when Quantitative Consultants, Inc. produces a report describing sampling methods, sampling locations and descriptions, and the number of fish sampled. Additionally, completion of this work element requires the QCI to conduct quality assurance and quality control activities and subsequently to load all data into an automated template module in Microsoft access for transfer to the ISEMP status and effectiveness monitoring database as well as uploading PIT tag data to PTAGIS. Data will include: 1. geographic location of sampled sites (latitude and longitude); 2. total stream length surveyed; 3. number of fish captured by species, scale samples obtained, and life history stage; 4. length and weight for a sample of collected fish; 5. codes for deployed PIT tags, referenced to the individual records of tagged fish; 6. description and sample rate for other deployed marks; 7. recapture information for marked fish when encountered (length, weight, life history stage, and PIT tag code if applicable); and 8. physical instream habitat description. All reports and data are due no later than 11/30/2011.

Metrics

Implementation Metrics

Metric	Planned	Actual
1464. Primary R, M, and E Focal Strategy [Population Status, Hydrosystem, Tributary Habitat, Estuary/Ocean, Harvest, Hatchery, Predation, Multiple Strategies]	Population Status	Population Status
1472. Primary R, M, and E Type [Status and Trend Monitoring, Action Effectiveness Research, Uncertainties Research, Project Implementation/ Compliance Monitoring]	Status and Trend Monitoring	Status and Trend Monitoring
1478. Secondary R, M, and E Type [Status and Trend Monitoring, Action Effectiveness Research, Uncertainties Research, Project Implementation/ Compliance Monitoring]	Uncertainty Research	Uncertainty Research
1495. Secondary R, M, and E Focal Strategy [Population Status, Hydrosystem, Tributary Habitat, Estuary/Ocean, Harvest, Hatchery, Predation, Multiple Strategies]	Tributary Habitat	Tributary Habitat

Location

Work Site ID	Latitude	Longitude	State	County	Province	Subbasin
19977	45.164203	-115.579499	Idaho	Valley	Mountain Snake	Salmon

Focal Species

Primary Focal Species:

Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened); Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened)

Secondary Focal Species:

None

Environmental Compliance

None

RM&E Metadata

Data Repositories:

Study Plan:

Study Plan Name	Study Plan Owner	Protocol State	Sample Design Name
BPA Fish and Wildlife Program Monitoring v1.0	Russell Scranton	Draft	Task 1A: Conduct juvenile seining and PIT tagging activities in the South Fork Salmon River. - Quantitative Consultants Inc 1 v1.0

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Implementation Metrics