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Scientific & Programmatic Review of Lower Snake River Fish & Wildlife Compensation Plan for Steelhead

This review aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the Lower Snake River Compensation Plan for Steelhead in meeting its goals. The review team consists of experts in fisheries science and statistics who will analyze the program's monitoring and evaluation efforts.

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Scientific & Programmatic Review of Lower Snake River Fish & Wildlife Compensation Plan for Steelhead

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  1. Scientific & Programmatic Review of the Lower Snake River Fish & Wildlife Compensation Plan for Steelhead Steve Yundt US Fish & Wildlife Service LSRCP

  2. Welcome • Recognition and Thank-you • Audience. • Staff responsible for details that made this Review possible-Particularly Jule, Tammy, Nichole, and Margaret. • LSRCP Cooperators who prepared the data. • BPA staff. • Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NPCC) and staff. • WDFW for hosting this Review. THANK YOU

  3. Other Recent Reviews • HSRG: Congressional mandate to review and recommend program changes needed to balance hatchery mitigation programs with conservation needs (2008 & 09). • FWS-HRT: Assess benefits & risks of Service operated mitigation programs & the program’s scientific defensibility (2008 – 2010) • NOAA HGMPs: Biological assessment of program on ESA listed stocks. In progress.

  4. Why this Review? • LSRCP wants to know how well goals are being met: • Develop a consensus set of evaluation metrics. • Develop a consensus set of methods to estimate those metrics. • Identify program gaps to help establish funding priorities. • Produce a single, consistent set of data to evaluate progress towards achieving program goals.

  5. Why this Review? • Congressional Mandate • 1996 Amendment to the NW Power Act. • Review projects to determine whether they: • 1) are based on sound science; 2) benefit fish and wildlife; 3) have a clearly defined objectives and outcomes; • 4) contain monitoring and evaluation programs. • ISRP given the charge to evaluate projects.

  6. LSRCP Review Team • Rich Alldredge, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics Emeritus at Washington State University, ISRP and ISAB chair • Eric J. Loudenslager, Ph.D., Hatchery Manager at Humboldt State University, California, past ISRP and ISAB chair • Greg Ruggerone, Ph.D., Fisheries Scientist for Natural Resources Consultants • Dennis Scarnecchia, Ph.D., Professor of Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho • Steve Schroder, Ph.D., Fisheries Consultant and former Fisheries Research Scientist at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife • Carl Schwarz, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada • William Smoker, Ph.D., Professor of Fisheries Emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences

  7. Why this Review? • Policy Questions for Agency/Tribal Leaders • Is our production program properly aligned with your agency’s management goals & objectives? • What changes, if any, would you recommend in our program to better meet your agency’s fishery and/or conservation goals?

  8. What you will see in this review: • Results from monitoring and evaluation effort funded by LSRCP. What you won’t see: Results from monitoring and evaluation effort not funded by LSRCP. 1 1 RRS and PIT studies report on non-LSRCP funded work.

  9. What you will see in this review: • Day 1 (Today): • Focus on fishery mitigation programs • Nine programmatic presentations • Day 2 (Tomorrow)– • Focus on supplementation and Interactions with natural stocks • Program summary • Policy Comments • Q & A • General Q & A following each presentation. • ISRP Q & A -Time for ISRP to ask additional questions. Audience is invited to listen, but no questions please, this is ISRP time. • Proceedings & presentations posted to LSRCP website.

  10. Straying • Definition: • Adult steelhead recovered (harvested or at traps/weirs) outside of a direct line between the ocean and its release location. • As a result of that definition, stray rates presented here may not compare directly with stray rates calculated elsewhere.

  11. House Keeping • Registration ?s: See Jule, Tammy, or Nichole. • Breaks, Lunches(2), & dinner tonight are included in the registration fee you gave Jule. If you didn’t pay, don’t partake. The fee police will get you! • Restrooms are_____________. • Power Point Presentations – Please get your Presentations to Nichole ASAP. • Social and Dinner in the ______ Room beginning @ 6:30 tonight. • Put your cell phones on vibrate.

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