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Wallowa Stock Summer Steelhead Program Review Grande Ronde River

Wallowa Stock Summer Steelhead Program Review Grande Ronde River. Joe Bumgarner Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. WDFW Summer Steelhead Program Goals. SAR = 0.5%, SAS = 1.5%. Steelhead Program Management Objectives. Establish steelhead broodstock (s) to meet egg needs

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Wallowa Stock Summer Steelhead Program Review Grande Ronde River

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  1. Wallowa Stock Summer Steelhead Program ReviewGrande Ronde River Joe Bumgarner Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

  2. WDFW Summer SteelheadProgram Goals SAR = 0.5%, SAS = 1.5%

  3. Steelhead ProgramManagement Objectives • Establish steelhead broodstock(s) to meet egg needs • Return adult steelhead to the Columbia, Snake, and tributary rivers which meets LSRCP goals • Improve or re-establish sport fisheries • Maintain and enhance natural populations of steelhead and other native salmonids • Coordinate actions with other basin managers

  4. Steelhead ProgramManagement Objectives(additional) • Monitor the status and trends of natural steelhead populations where LSRCP fish might have affects • Program is compliant with ESA (HGMP’s, FMEP’s) and WDFW Policies to protect and recover wild stocks

  5. Steelhead Management Driversin Southeast Washington LSRCP US v OR RM&E Wild Fish Protection & ESA Recovery

  6. Presentation Outline • Hatchery Production • Adult Returns • Grande Ronde Fishery • Data Gaps • Program Summary • Hatchery Reform Actions

  7. WDFW Wallowa Stock Steelhead Program Hatchery Facilities Lyons Ferry Hatchery Palouse River Idaho LGR Snake R. LGO LMN Clearwater River Tucannon River SnakeR. Asotin Cr. Touchet River ICH Snake R. Cottonwood AP and Adult Trap Columbia River Washington Walla Walla River Oregon Grande Ronde R.

  8. Trapping and Spawning

  9. Broodstock History and Goals Current Goal = 60 Full Spawn or, 120 Half-Spawn Females

  10. Cottonwood Creek Adult Trap Acclimation Pond Intake Screen Adult Holding Area Trap Entrance

  11. Wallowa StockRun Timing at Cottonwood Cr. Spawning

  12. Cottonwood Cr. Adult Trapping

  13. Disposition of Trapped Adults at Cottonwood Creek RY’s 1994-2008 RY’s 2009-11

  14. Coded-Wire Tag Recoveriesin Cottonwood Cr.

  15. Hatchery Rearing

  16. Lyons Ferry Hatchery

  17. WDFW Wallowa StockEgg to Release Survival

  18. Disease/Pathology

  19. Marking and Tagging • 100% AD Fin Clip • Portion LV Fin Clip + CWT 1984-1986, 1996-Present Minimum 20,000 Tags • PIT Tagged N Purpose BY 1998-2000 300 Juvenile Migration BY 2007-Present 4,000-6,000 Adult Returns/Straying

  20. Smolt Releases

  21. Release Strategies Cottonwood AP

  22. WDFW Wallowa Stock Release History Lyons Ferry Hatchery Palouse River Idaho LGR Snake R. LGO LMN Clearwater River Tucannon River SnakeR. 1983-1989 Asotin Cr. Touchet River ICH Snake R. Columbia River Cottonwood AP Washington Walla Walla River Oregon Grande Ronde R. 1997

  23. WDFW Wallowa Stock Releases Grande Ronde Basin

  24. Adult Returns

  25. Mitigation Goals Project Area All Areas Within Snake River Basin

  26. WDFW Wallowa StockRun Timing at Mainstem Dams Snake River Steelhead Fishery Opens

  27. WDFW Wallowa Stock SAS / SAR Survival Downriver Harvest

  28. WDFW Wallowa StockTotal Adult Returns (SAS)

  29. WDFW Wallowa StockAdult Returns to Project Area (SAR) Project Area Return Goal

  30. WDFW Wallowa StockProgeny:Parent Ratio

  31. Percent Harvest and EscapementWallowa Stock Releases Strays = 4.7%

  32. Wallowa Stock Stray Distribution2001-06 Brood Years Snake ↑LGR

  33. Grande Ronde Fishery

  34. Grande Ronde Fishery Locations (WA) Snake River Miles 0 2 Bogan’s Resort Cottonwood AP WA OR Schumaker WA OR Wenaha R. Joseph Creek Basin Troy, OR

  35. Fishery Details • 38 RM, 319 Days Open • Angler Info from 2010-2012 • Angler Trips – 95% are 1-5 Days • 96% of Anglers are from WA, OR, ID • 4% of Anglers are USA wide

  36. Destination – Grande Ronde2009-2011 Run Years

  37. Fishery Details • 38 RM, 319 Days Open • Angler Trips – 95% are 1-5 Days • 96% of Anglers are WA/OR/ID Origin • 4% of Anglers are USA wide • ~$1,000 Direct Cost per Steelhead Harvested • (USFWS 2002, WA Steelhead Plan) • $3-8 M/year (RY’s 2000-2008 Harvest Est.)

  38. Fishery Harvest (RY 1985-2010)Grande Ronde River in Washington

  39. Program Contribution (RY 1998-2009)Bogan’s Resort to Oregon Stateline

  40. Total Harvest Washington Portion of Grande Ronde Angler Days

  41. Data GapsNatural Production Monitoring • Joseph Creek (ODFW) • Large wild population, low number of hatchery strays? • Wenaha Basin • Wilderness Area, Remote, Difficult Access • Unknown presence of hatchery fish • Local Tributaries near Cottonwood • Small, maybe < 50 adults/year • High % of hatchery strays (Rattlesnake Cr, Menatchee Cr)

  42. Local Straying Menatchee Cr. - 2001 Rattlesnake Cr. - 2000 9 River Miles Upstream of Cottonwood 3 River Miles Downstream of Cottonwood N = 17, 77% Hatchery N = 55, 78% Hatchery

  43. Wild Stock Protections • Wild SH refuge areas • Joseph Creek, Wenaha River Basin, Asotin Creek • Most headwater areas • No Wild SH harvest – selective fisheries since 1984 • Barbless hooks required • ↑ Daily Bag Limit to 3 (2001) • Selective gear/closed area regulations – Trout • ↓ Hatchery smolt releases and locations • Removal of hatchery steelhead at weirs/traps • (Cottonwood, Asotin, Almota, Tucanonn, Dayton, etc…..)

  44. Program SummaryManagement Objectives – Grande Ronde • Establish broodstock – YES • Achieve LSRCP goals (SAR, SAS, Adults) – Partial • Improve or re-establish sport fisheries – YES • Coordinate actions with other basin managers – YES • Compliant with ESA (HGMP’s, FMEP’s) – YES

  45. Program SummaryManagement Objectives – Grande Ronde • Compliant with WDFW Policies to protect and recover wild steelhead stocks – Partially • Maintain and/or enhance natural steelhead populations – Unknown • Monitor the status/trends of natural populations where LSRCP fish might have affects – NO

  46. Hatchery Reform Actions • Created local broodstock • ↑ homing to local area • ↓ Smolt numbers and release locations • ↑ Smolt size • ↑ survival and emigration success • ↓effects of residualism

  47. Hatchery Reform Actions (cont) • Removal of excess adults • ↓ spawning in other locations • ↓ risk of disease transmission to wild fish • Annually CWT and PIT Tag • Determine SAR’s, Adult Returns, Straying • Half spawn females • ↑ genetic diversity and fitness

  48. Questions

  49. Deschutes River Strays(Sport/Rack Recoveries in Deschutes River)

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