What do we have in common? Do more with less!

1. PNAMP Integrated Status & Trend Monitoring Workgroup What do we have in common? Do more with less!

2. PNAMP Integrated Status & Trend Monitoring Workgroup Common Question: What is the status and trend of fish and/or the ecosystems that support them?

3. PNAMP Integrated Status & Trend Monitoring Workgroup • Logical improvements in the cost-effectiveness of monitoring efforts include: • Reduce duplication of effort (particularly true for habitat) • Collect data to inform at multiple scales • Promote data sharing • Agree on overarching set of monitoring questions • Common protocols or ways to “crosswalk” data derived from disparate protocols

4. PNAMP ISTM Goal: Improve integration of existing and new efforts that are intended to address status and trend questions. Focus on demonstrating in the Lower Columbia River, processes and tools that aid in development and management of regional strategic action plans for monitoring the status and trend of fish habitat, watershed health, and fish populations.

5. Why the Lower Columbia River area? • Numerous fish populations, multiple ESUs and DPSs listed under ESA • Lower mainstem Columbia River and Estuary is a common migration/rearing corridor for LCR and upriver anadromous salmonid populations • Integration and coordination • states • federal land managers • recovery plans status assessments under ESA • local entities

6. PNAMP Anticipated contributions of ISTM • Coordination • Tools for designing monitoring programs and analyzing data • Examples of how to integrate the master sample concept with existing monitoring efforts • Specific recommendations for developing a coordinated, integrated, and efficient monitoring programs for fish and habitat the LCR • Recommendations to other areas of the Pacific Northwest on how they may develop more coordinated, integrated, and efficient monitoring programs for fish and habitat • Recommendations on metadata requirements to describe survey designs, protocols, and resulting data

7. Initial focus was on habitat condition and watershed health monitoring in tributary areas – universal

8. Developed draft white paper on the need for a GRTS-based master sample of sites for the LCR. This led to BPA funding OSU’s StatNat to develop website

9. More recently, interest expressed in expanding concept of master sample for estuary habitat monitoring

10. Also began to work on coordination and integration of fish monitoring in the LCR.

11. Review existing programs Decisions and questions Implementation recommendations Trade-off analyses Sampling frames Fish Monitoring Portion of ISTM project has leapt ahead by developing a draft proposal with 5 basic objectives • Identify decisions, questions, and objectives • Establish sampling frames • Review existing programs and designs • Use trade-off analyses to develop recommendations for monitoring • Recommend implementation and reporting mechanisms Salmon and steelhead monitoring Habitat & watershed condition monitoring

12. Columbia Basin “Comprehensive anadromous M&E strategy” • Compile & truth a list of existing m&e projects and programs • Develop ESU/DPS specific monitoring visions for all necessary monitoring • Identify ESU/DPS specific gaps, redundancies and potential efficiencies • Identify potential strategies to fill gaps and improve efficiencies at the ESU/DPS level • Bring policy-aware, technical m&e experts together to develop a set of comprehensive m&e strategy proposals • Vet as appropriate and necessary with regional decision makers.

13. Context with proposed Columbia Basin “Comprehensive anadromous M&E strategy” Scale & Location Populations Strata ESUs Estuary Tributaries Columbia Mainstem Ocean Status & Trend • Threats • Habitat • Hydro • Harvest • Disease & Predation • Regulatory Mechanisms • Hatchery • Natural • Viability Parameters • Abundance • Productivity • Spatial Distribution • Diversity • Action Evaluation • Compliance and Implementation • Effectiveness Critical Uncertainty Research

14. Context with proposed Columbia Basin “Comprehensive anadromous M&E strategy” Scale & Location Populations Strata ESUs Estuary Tributaries Columbia Mainstem Ocean Status & Trend • Threats • Habitat • Hydro • Harvest • Disease & Predation • Regulatory Mechanisms • Hatchery • Natural • Viability Parameters • Abundance • Productivity* • Spatial Distribution • Diversity • Action Evaluation • Compliance and Implementation • Effectiveness Critical Uncertainty Research

15. PNAMP Integrated Status & Trend Monitoring Workgroup • What’s next? • Identify common information needs • Finalize, fund, & implement fish proposal • Develop similar proposal for habitat • Estuary and LCR mainstem monitoring • Implement GRTS website • Data management • Protocol alignments & crosswalks