PROJECT

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PROJECT 29040

• DEVELOP AND PROPAGATE
• LOCAL OKANOGAN RIVER
• SUMMER/FALL CHINOOK

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CHIEF JOSEPH DAM HATCHERYPROJECT
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OUTLINE

• GENERAL PROJECT BACKGROUND
• SUMMER/FALL CHINOOK
• HATCHERY GENETIC MANAGEMENT PLAN
• SPRING CHINOOK
• HATCHERY GENETIC MGMT. PLAN
• CJD HATCHERY CONCEPTUAL PLAN
• ACCLIMATION FACILITIES

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Hatchery Purpose

• Support Conservation Harvest of
• Summer/Fall Chinook (and Spring Chinook)
• in the Okanogan and Columbia Rivers

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Hatchery Need

• No salmon mitigation for Colville Tribes from
  construction and operation of Corps
• Bonneville Dam
• The Dalles Dam
• John Day Dam
• McNary Dam
• Chief Joseph Dam

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Hatchery Need

• 4th and final hatchery authorized as
• mitigation for Grand Coulee Dam was never
• constructed in the Okanogan River
• Inadequate salmon mitigation from 5 Public
• Utility District dams

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Hatchery Need

• Colville Tribes have lost fishing opportunity for
  over 60 years
• Tribes fisheries reduced to average annual
• harvest of only 630 salmon and steelhead
• Colville Tribes have lost all spring Chinook
• fisheries

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Hatchery Need

• Federal Trust responsibilities for
• Colville Tribes salmon and steelhead
• resources and fisheries have been seriously
• abrogated

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Project Schedule

• 2003-2004 Master planning
• 2004-2005 Detailed design, NEPA ESA
• 2006 Final Design
• 2007 Seek Construction w/Federal and PUD
  partners

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MASTER PLAN SCOPE

• Approved for Summer/Fall Chinook ONLY
• Conceptual Design to include option for Spring
  Chinook

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MASTER PLAN OUTLINE

• Overview Document
• Summer/Fall Chinook HGMP
• Water Supply Report
• Conceptual Engineering Design
• Conceptual ME Program
• Spring Chinook HGMP
• Research Plans Critical Uncertainties and
  Live-Capture Broodstock Collection Gear

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CJD Hatchery Production

• 1.6 million Summer/Fall Chinook
• 900,000 Spring Chinook
• Option 400,000 more
• Summer/Fall Chinook

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Basic Salmon Management

• Chinook to be released at CJD Hatchery to
• supplement Tribes terminal fishery
• Chinook to be released from several new and
• existing acclimation ponds along the Okanogan
• River
• Tribes to develop selective fishing gear and
  in-lieu
• sites to harvest primarily hatchery-origin fish

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SUMMER/FALL CHINOOKHATCHERY GENETIC
MANAGEMENT PLAN
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Summer/Fall Chinook Goals

• Integrated Recovery Program Increase abundance,
  distribution, and diversity of naturally spawning
  population in Okanogan Columbia rivers
• Integrated Harvest Program Increase tribal CS
  fishery and recreational fishery

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Program Actions

• Redistribute (split) existing Similkameen Pond
  production to Bonaparte Pond (576,000 total)
• Convert existing 1.6 million sub-yearling release
  at Turtle Rock Hatchery to 400,000 yearling
  release and move from Columbia River to Riverside
  Pond on the Okanogan River

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Program Actions

• Increase releases at CJDH (500,000 total)
• Propagate later-arriving Chinook for release at
  Omak Pond on the Okanogan River and at CJD
  Hatchery on the Columbia River (1.1 million
  total)
• Diversify juvenile release - both sub-yearling
  and yearling fish

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Broodstock Collection

• Current At Wells Dam for Similkameen Pond
• Proposed
• Live-capture gear in Okanogan Columbia rivers -
  Primary
• Collection Facility at base of Chief Joseph Dam -
  Secondary
• Wells Dam - Contingency

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SUMMER/FALL CHINOOK PROPAGATION

• Adult holding at CJD Hatchery
• Spawning and incubation at CJD Hatchery
• Early rearing at CJD Hatchery
• Juveniles (yearlings) moved out in late October
  to over-winter rear in acclimation ponds.
• Juveniles (subyearlings) moved out in April
• Juveniles (both) released from CJD Hatchery

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ADULT HOLDING

• Summer/Fall Chinook collected from throughout the
  entire run
• Okanogan Summer/Fall Chinook managed as a single
  population, but for continuum in run and spawn
  timing, and spawning location
• Progeny of earlier ripening fish to higher
  acclimation ponds later ripening to lower ponds

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JUVENILE RELEASE

• Similkameen Pond 376,000 10 fpp Yearlings
• Bonaparte Pond 200,000 10 fpp Yearlings
• Riverside Pond 400,000 10 ffp Yearlings
• Tonasket Pond contingency for Riverside
• Omak Pond 400,000 10 ffp Yearlings
• 300,000 50 ffp Sub-yearlings
• CJD Hatchery 500,000 10 ffp Yearlings
• 400,000 50 ffp Sub-yearlings

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Bonaparte Pond
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Bonaparte Pond
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SPRING CHINOOKHATCHERY GENETIC MANAGEMENT
PLAN
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Spring Chinook Goals

• Integrated Recovery Program Reintroduce into
  Omak Creek, possibly Salmon Creek and possibly
  Canadian waters
• Phase I - Isolated Harvest Program Restore
  tribal CS fishery and recreational fishery
• Phase II Integrated Harvest Program - Restore
  tribal CS fishery and recreational fishery

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Spring Chinook Phases

• Phase I Use available Carson stock spring
  Chinook from Leavenworth NFH. Not ESA-listed
• Phase II Transition to Methow Composite stock.
  Reintroduce this ESA-listed stock as an
  experimental population. Timeframe uncertain.

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Juvenile Release

• Omak Creek Pond 50,000 15 fpp Yearlings
• Ellisforde Pond 500,000 15 fpp Yearlings
• Osoyoos Lake (100,000) 15 fpp Yearlings
• CJD Hatchery 300,000 15 fpp Yearlings
• Salmon Creek 50,000 15 fpp Yearlings

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Ellisforde Pond
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CHIEF JOSEPH DAM HATCHERYCONCEPTUAL PLAN
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Spring Chinook Option

• Conceptual Design for CJD Hatchery must show
  spring Chinook facilities as expansion potential
• CJD Hatchery Conceptual Design must allow for
  stand-alone summer/fall Chinook production

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WATER SUPPLY

• 22 cfs Relief Tunnel Water
• Temperature 6 months out-of-phase w/river
• 6 cfs Well Water
• Incubation and potable
• Possibly use Relief Tunnel Water
• Chilling for incubation
• 20-30 cfs Rufus Woods Lake

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WATER SUPPLY

• Multiple Mixing Capability for Temperature
  Management
• Corps of Engineers doing conceptual design of
  water supply from relief tunnel and from Rufus
  Woods Lake.
• Corps of Engineers to confirm water supply
  quantity and quality

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ADULT HOLDING

• 900 Summer/Fall Chinook
• Common holding facility
• Prolonged spawning period
• 640 Spring Chinook
• Separate from summer/fall Chinook
• Flexibility to hold Carson Methow separately
• Receive fish from off-station

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INCUBATION FRY

• 1,968,000 summer/fall Chinook eggs
• 1,125,000 spring Chinook eggs
• 2.83 million fry for ponding - total

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JUVENILE REARING

• Up to 70,000 pounds
• Spring Chinook flexibility for 2 programs
• Summer/Fall Chinook 6 separate release groups

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ADULT COLLECTION

• Facility at base of Chief Joseph Dam
• Design with consideration for options to pass
  fish over Chief Joseph Dam
• Trap and Haul
• Stub in ladder

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400,000 Summer/Fall Option

• If water and space are available, Colville Tribes
  may want to include capacity to hold, incubate,
  and rear for 400,000 summer/fall Chinook destined
  for Riverside Pond
• These fish would be transferred as sub-yearlings
  in late October to Riverside Pond for over-winter
  acclimation

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Chief Joseph Dam Hatchery

• 48 cfs Variable Temperature Water Supply
• 2 Adult Holding Ponds Spawning Facilities
• 640 Vertical Stack Incubation Trays
• Fry Troughs
• 115,000 Cubic Feet of Raceways 8 release groups
• Fishway from Columbia River
• Effluent Aeration Ponds
• Hydroelectric Power Generation
• Buildings Office/Visitors, Incubation, Fry,
  Shop/Feed Storage, 1 Residence

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ACCLIMATION FACILITIES
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EXISTING PONDS

• Bonaparte Open air 128x102x12
• 65,300 cu. ft. at 5 depth 25 cfs max. capacity
• Tonasket Open air 295x42x6
• 74,300 cu. ft. 25 cfs max. capacity ??
• Interim or Contingency facility
• Ellisforde Open air 225x90x6
• 121,500 cu. ft. 30 cfs max. capacity

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NEW PONDS

• Riverside
• Over-winter rear 400,000 summer/fall Chinook
• Requires land purchase and full development
• Use river water
• Omak
• Over-winter rear 400,000 summer/fall Chinook,
  then
• 2 month acclimation of 300,000 sub-yearlings
• Site owned by Colville Tribes
• Some well water may be available

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NATURES REARING

• No NATURES planned for CJD Hatchery
• NATURES may be tested at acclimation ponds
• NATURES components
• Low density
• In water structure
• Sub-surface feeding

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Desired Acclimation Pond Features

• Bird and land predator exclusion
• Volitional release followed by forced release
• Outlets downstream from intakes
• Good flow distribution
• Contingencies for icing
• Pond Cleaning - vacuuming
• Remote communications and alarms
• Partnership with Oroville-Tonasket Irrigation
  District

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