FY07-09 proposal 200100300

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Section 1. Administrative

Contacts

Section 2. Locations

Province / subbasin: Mainstem/Systemwide / Systemwide

Section 3. Focal species

Section 4. Past accomplishments

Section 5. Relationships to other projects

Section 6. Biological objectives

Section 7. Work elements (coming back to this)

Section 8. Budgets

Itemized estimated budget

Total estimated FY 2007-2009 budgets

Cost sharing

Section 9. Project future

Future O&M costs: The PTAGIS project (199008000) performs routine operations and maintenance of the regions PIT tag detection infrastructure.

Termination date: FY2011
Comments: The installation of interrogation systems for adult salmonids at John Day and The Dalles Dam should be the last for this project. The sequence in which these occur will be decided through the regional decision making process and framework. Although the installations will be completed by 2009, we will want to evaluate these new installations for a couple of years to be certain they satisfy the data-collection needs an to assure performance is maintainable over time. Once the fisheries community and the Action Agencies are satisfied, then this project can be terminated.

Final deliverables: Report on how well the systems have performed over the years, and a network of installed and operating PIT tag detection systems.

Section 10. Narrative and other documents

Reviews and recommendations

ISRP PRELIMINARY REVIEW (Jun 2, 2006)

Recommendation: Response requested

NPCC comments: This is a high priority project and should be funded, but the proposal lacks sufficient detail. A response is requested to provide a better accounting of past results and accomplishments of the project. The project history is only briefly summarized by year, with short bullets listing the most significant events and accomplishments. The results are not described in biologically measurable terms, and the proposal just presents a list of tasks performed plus a couple of reports. The response should also provide more detailed information on their improved detection efficiencies and include available efficiency test results. Other comments: The problem in getting adequate adult salmonid passage data is fairly well defined, and the need for installing state-of-the-art, extended-range interrogation systems capable of detecting migrating adult salmonids to aid in restoration strategies is justified. However, the proposal only briefly mentions the need to restore ESA-listed stocks and provides almost no details about how this project will specifically aid in this effort. Extended-range interrogation systems for adult salmonids are still needed for John Day and The Dalles Dams because there are fish losses in these reaches that cannot be accounted for. The current schedule calls for systems to be installed at John Day Dam in FY08 and at The Dalles Dam in FY09. What is the rationale for this schedule? Could better information and biological benefits be obtained by a different order of installation? The Fish and Wildlife Program and the BiOp are only generally referred to, and the proposal needs to describe how it addresses priority issues in these plans.

ISRP FINAL REVIEW (Aug 31, 2006)

Recommendation: Fundable

NPCC comments: The sponsors of the proposal provided adequate responses to all ISRP questions and comments. The proposal narrative was revised by adding more detailed descriptions of the project history and by providing test results that indicated that the detection efficiencies of PIT tagged adult salmonids by the new vertical slot interrogation systems were much improved over the older orifice-based systems. Figures indicating the locations and orientation of the new detectors were also added to the revised narrative. In the response document and narrative the sponsors also included a good explanation of how the improvements in the PIT tag interrogation systems will impact meeting objectives for the Fish and Wildlife Program (and for all other regional plans) as well as the recovery of ESA-listed anadromous and resident fish affected by development and operation of the hydrosystem. The sponsors indicate that since the RM&E program relies on PIT-tag data for their analyses, the installation and evaluation of newly installed PIT-tag interrogation systems helps to improve the accuracy of these analyses. By expanding the collection of PIT-tag data and improving detection efficiencies, estimates of reach survival estimates for ESA-listed populations are stronger statistically.