Strategy Rationale

1. Strategy Rationale NOAA Monitoring Guidance (includes RPAs) Oregon Recovery Plan Washington Recovery Plan Estuary Module Integrated Status & Trends Monitoring (ISTM) Recommendations

2. ISTM STEPS Ongoing 1. Identify and prioritize decisions, questions, and objectives 2. Evaluate extent to which existing programs align with these decisions, questions, and objectives Proposed 3. Identify most appropriate monitoring design to inform priority decisions, questions, and objectives 4. Use trade-off analysis to develop specific recommendations for monitoring based on outcomes of objectives 1-3 5. Recommend implementation and reporting mechanisms

3. Review & Proposed TradeOff Analysis

4. ODFW • WDFW • LCFRB • OWEB • USFS • Etc. Integrated Status & Trend Monitoring Workgroup Collaborative, Integrated, Coordinated, & Efficient Monitoring Plan PNAMP

5. Monitoring Challenges In LCR • Lost/loosing census (dam counts at Marmot -Sandy, Powerdale-Hood, & Hemlock -Wind) • Poor visibility (glacial runoff & sediment ) in Hood, Sandy, and Toutle Rivers • High elevation (early snow) , difficult access, & safety concerns in canyons on Sandy & Toutle Rivers preclude coho surveys, and some steelhead and Chinook surveys • Redd surveys for steelhead don’t provide biological data (sex ratio, age, % hatchery spawners) because they no carcass recoveries • Limited Funding

6. VSP Monitoring Strategy* • Annual surveys of natural and hatchery origin spawner abundance at population scale – facilitates productivity, diversity, & distribution assessment Ongoing • Oregon Coho (~$268k/year – Oregon Lottery) • Fall Chinook (~$93k/year – Mitchell Act) • Spring Chinook redds and carcasses census in Sandy and Clackamas (~$40k/year – SFR) • Washington Steelhead (MA) • Chinook (MA & BPA) • Chum (BPA) Gaps • Oregon - Steelhead & Chum Esc (~$319k/year st only) • Washington – Coho Esc(~$600k/year) *Pending ISTM project results

7. VSP Monitoring Strategy* • Annual surveys of juvenile densities and distribution at MPG scale Ongoing • Oregon (~$42k/year – Oregon Lottery) Gaps • Washington *Pending ISTM project results

8. VSP Monitoring Strategy* • Life cycle (Fish In/Out) monitoring in at least one sub-watershed per MPG Ongoing • NF Scappoose (~$12k/year – Oregon Lottery) • River Mill Dam, Clackamas ($? - PGE) • Hood River (BPA) • Grays & Wind (BPA) • MAG, Kalama, Coweeman, Cedar(State, MA,PSC) • Tilton & Upper Cowlitz (TPU) Proposed • Clatskanie River (~$60k/year) • Cedar Creek, Sandy River (~$50k/year) • EF & WF Hood River (~?/year CTWS) • Rotating smolt traps in Sandy River (~$50k/yearb) • Rotating smolts in unmonitored WA tribs aAnnual cost will go down once infrastructure is in place bSupplemented by with additional Portland HCP funds? *Pending ISTM project results

9. Habitat Monitoring Strategy* • Annual GRTS-based habitat surveys at MPG scale Ongoing • In wadeable streams (~$68k/year – Oregon Lottery) Proposed • In non-wadeable streams (~$100k/year) • Periodic GRTS-based habitat surveys at population scale Ongoing • None Proposed • Wadeable streams (~$156k/year) • Non-wadeable streams (included in MPG scale estimate) *Pending ISTM project results

10. Precision & Sample Size Targets* • + 30% of estimate • 30-40 sites or 30% of sample frame (whichever comes first) *Pending ISTM project results

11. Harvest Monitoring Strategy • Improve precision of harvest estimates. ($?) • Needed for VSP productivity estimate • Hatchery harvest rates from CWT are used as surrogate for wild fish • Consider incorporation of genetic & PIT tag sampling to supplement & compare with CWT • CWT recovery program • Fund CWT program to achieve 20% sample rate • Provided wands/scanners to sample PIT tags

12. Hatchery Monitoring Strategy • Segregated and Integrated Programs • CWT Program • Relative Reproductive Success • VSP Abundance • Residualism/Ecologiocal Interactions from Juvenile Sampling

13. Effectiveness Monitoring Strategy • Pre- & Post- habitat monitoring at restoration sites • Ongoing • ~15 restoration sites per year ($? – Oregon Lottery) • Proposed • Pending ISTM project results • Intensively Monitored Watersheds • Ongoing • OR (None) & WA (MAG) • Proposed • Pending ISTM project results • WA (Wind)

14. Critical Uncertainty Research Ongoing: • Relative Reproductive Success • Steelhead – Hood, Kalama, & Abernathy (BPA & MA) • ISTM • Species Distribution Models for sampling frames (BPA) • Master Sample Program for LCR (BPA) • Alternate monitoring • DIDSON Sonar (PSC) Proposed: • Chum reintroduction (~$324k/year) • Freshwater survival and performance of hatchery fed-fry, direct planted eyed eggs, and natural production following reintroduction of chum salmon into targeted subbasins • Relative Reproductive Success • Tule Fall Chinook • ISTM • Integration of fish and habitat monitoring • Estimation of precision & accuracy of different Columbia Basin monitoring programs (Redds, AUC, MR, PCE) based on LCR data • TradeOffs ($, Precision, Accuracy) between monitoring approaches & designs

15. Data Management Ongoing • StreamNet • OWEB Oregon Watershed Restoration Inventory • WDFW – Spawning Ground Survey (SGS), Age & Scales, & Smolt Trapping databases • Project level data management Gaps • Coordinated region-wide VSP and habitat data management systems ($?)

16. Existing monitoring and its relation to strategy and BIOP RPA’s • How it conforms with your strategy • Existing monitoring & tradeoffs reviewed through ISTM • Current monitoring is early Implementation of ISTM & gaps • How it informs the BIOP RPA’s • RPA 62.4,50.6,50.7,63.1 • Where there adjustments identified • Modify CWT recovery expanded to include PIT tags • Modified Chum to address PRA • New RRS for Chinook • Wind modified for IMW status (Dam Removal & Habitat Restoration) • Were these adjustments cost plus, cost minus or cost neutral, include total amounts • All adjustments are cost plus

17. Summarize any Accord monitoring within your strategy • The only Accord Monitoring in the Lower Columbia Domain occurs in the Hood River By CTWSRO • Accord monitoring addresses RPA 50.4, 50.6, 50.7, 56.1, 62.1, 62.4, 64.1, 64.2 • M&E was projected to be $499k and proposed to be $502K • Habitat monitoring $50K out of $323K annually • Does not include ODFW monitoring and OSU RRS steelhead monitoring

18. Summarize, by priority, the new monitoring efforts needed to meet the RPA requirements • ISTM Project funded through PNAMP to complete a comprehensive review of fish monitoring in the LCR and develop an integrated status and trend monitoring program for habitat. (ODFW & WDFW) • Coded Wire Tag Recovery Project This project includes fisheries sampling and spawning ground surveys to recovery coded wire tags. Both of which are needed for estimate VSP parameters of abundance, diversity, and productivity. Scope increased to include PIT tag sampling and achievement of recommended sampling rates. (ODFW & WDFW) • Chum salmon enhancement in the LCR (includes monitoring, restoration, rebuilding, and reintroduction). Funding already secured for planning & development of integrated monitoring plan and habitat restoration in FY10 ($497K). In FY11 Duncan Cr project (200105300) & Below the Dams project (199900301) to be combined into one project ($1.1M) for full implementation. Includes smolt trapping for multiply listed species on Grays & possibly Hamilton Creek. (ODFW & WDFW)

19. Summarize, by priority, the new monitoring efforts needed to meet the RPA requirements(continued) • Hood River M&E and Habitat Programs (ODFW and CTWSRO) • Wind River Watershed Assessment. Funding for BACI design in Wind River to assess removal of Hemlock Dam on USFS land per contract #199801900. Modification is intended is to elevate Wind River monitoring to IMW-level intensity. Also provides information on other species (Coho & Chinook). Budget includes only fish monitoring (WDFW).

20. Summarize, by priority, the new additional monitoring efforts needed to meet the strategy. OREGON (Highest Priority) • Implementation of ISTM Recommendations • GRTS-based steelhead redd surveys. Cost: $319k/year • Periodic GRTS-based habitat monitoring at population scale in wadeable streams. Cost/year: $156k (for all pops and all MPGs in LCR) • Habitat monitoring in non-wadeable streams. Cost: $100k/year (includes all pops and MPGs in LCR) • Life cycle monitoring site in Cedar Creek (Sandy River) and rotating outmigrant traps in the Sandy. Cost: $100k/year

21. Summarize, by priority, the new additional monitoring efforts needed to meet the strategy. WASHINGTON (Highest Priority) • Implementation of ISTM Recommendations • LCR adult coho monitoring of distribution, escapement. Included in WDFW MOA proposal to BPA. Includes development and implementation of "Accuracy & Precision" project to develop LCR-specific apparent residence time estimate. Should also include completion of Coweeman coho survey project (2005-2008)

22. Summarize, by priority, the new additional monitoring efforts needed to meet the strategy. OREGON (High Priority) • Develop new hatchery database system that is compatible with the proposed databases for production planning and marking (Istar) has the ability to store new data fields and expand as need arises, and is readily available to all personnel in ODFW. Cost: $ • Juvenile outmigrant trapping at NF Klaskanine and Big Creek to obtain additional information on marine and freshwater survival rates and gather information needed to develop and test habitat capacity models. Cost: $60k/year • GRTS-based surveys above fish counting/passage facilities to evaluate precision and bias. Cost: $60k/year • Macroinvertebrate monitoring at MPG scale. Cost: $50k/year (includes all MPGs in LCR) • Life cycle monitoring site in Neal Cr. (Hood). Cost/year: $100k

23. Summarize, by priority, the new additional monitoring efforts needed to meet the strategy. WASHINGTON (High Priority) • Fall Chinook Productivity Monitoring Two estimates of RRS for Chinook (one each in strata coast and casacde). • Washougal Weir Construction and Operation of a weir on the Washougal for hatchery tule fall Chinook escapement • Fish In/out Monitoring. Statewide strategy for the high quality escapement and smolt estimates for both fisheries and habitat monitoring • Coweeman Fish In/Out Juvenile trapping and adult escapement estimates for all salmonids. • Kalama River 2nd Generation RRS RRS of naturally produced steelhead with varying degrees of hatchery ancestry.