OKANOGAN RIVER SPRING & SUMMER/FALL CHINOOK Hatchery & Genetics Management Plans
What Are They? Comprehensive Production & Harvest Programs for Spring Chinook and Summer/Fall Chinook in the Okanogan Subbasin and in the Columbia River from Chief Joseph Dam Downstream to the Okanogan River
WHY? No Mitigation for Grand Coulee Dam – 60+ yrs No Anadromous Fish Mitigation for Chief Joseph Dam, 4 COE Lower Columbia River Dams Inadequate Mitigation for 5 PUD Dams Inequity: 630 Fish Ave. Annual Colville Harvest No Colville Spring Chinook Fisheries Abrogation of Federal Trust Responsibilities
Summer/Fall Chinook Programs Integrated Recovery Program: Increase Abundance, Distribution, Diversity of Natural-Origin Summer/Fall Chinook Disperse Hatchery Production of Summer Chinook to Increase Natural Production Realign and Increase Hatchery Production of Summer Chinook Initiate Local Okanogan Summer Chinook Broodstock Initiate Propagation of Later-Arriving Chinook Mark all Hatchery-Origin Chinook
Summer/Fall Chinook Programs Integrated Harvest Program: Enhance Tribal C&S and Recreational Harvest Selective Harvest of Marked, Hatchery-Origin Fish Harvest Natural-Origin Fish When Available In Okanogan and Columbia Rivers
Similkameen Pond Ellisforde Pond Tonasket Pond Bonaparte Pond Omak Pond
Summer/Fall Chinook Program Size Similkameen Pond – 376,000 existing yearling summer chinook Bonaparte Pond - 200,000 existing yearling summer chinook Tonasket Pond - 400,000 yearling summer chinook (per PUD HCP) CJD Hatchery - 300,000 new yearling summer chinook 200,000 new sub-yearling summer chinook
Summer/Fall Chinook Program Size Omak Pond - 400,000 new yearling later- arriving chinook 300,000 new sub-yearling, later- arriving chinook CJD Hatchery - 200,000 new yearling, later- arriving chinook 200,000 new sub-yearling, later-arriving chinook
Bonaparte Pond
Summer/Fall Chinook Production Eastbank Hatchery 576,000 existing summer Chinook Chief Joseph Dam Hatchery 500,000 new summer Chinook 1.1 million new later-arriving Chinook PUD Hatchery 400,000 existing summer Chinook
Spring Chinook – Two Phases Phase I Use Carson Stock Spring Chinook Test Habitat Function Create & Test Tribal & Sport Fisheries Phase II Use UCR Spring Chinook (Methow Stock) Experimental Population w/Fisheries Contribute to ESU Recovery & Delisting
Spring Chinook Program Integrated Recovery Program: Increase Abundance, Distribution, Diversity of Natural-Origin Spring Chinook In Phase I & Phase II Current Reintroduction in Omak Creek Later Possible Reintroduction in Salmon Creek Test Pen-Rearing in Lake Osoyoos Carson Stock Transitioning to Methow Stock
Spring Chinook Program - I Isolated Harvest Program: Enhance Tribal C&S and Recreational Harvest Marked, Hatchery-Origin Chinook Test & Deploy Selective Capture Gear Create In-Lieu Fishing Sites Acclimate in Okanogan at Ellisforde Later Releases Below Chief Joseph Dam Initially Use Carson Stock Harvest all Adult Fish (Goal)
Spring Chinook Program - II Integrated Harvest Program: Enhance Tribal C&S and Recreational Harvest Use Methow Stock Selective Harvest of Marked, Hatchery-Origin Fish In Okanogan and Columbia Rivers Reserve for Integrated Recovery Program
Spring Chinook Program Size - I Omak Creek – 50,000 existing yearling spring chinook Salmon Creek - 50,000 new yearling spring chinook* Ellisforde Pond - 400,000 yearling spring chinook* Lake Osoyoos - 100,000 new yearling spring chinook* CJD Hatchery - 300,000 new yearling spring chinook
Ellisforde Pond
Spring Chinook Production - I Leavenworth Hatchery Initial Egg Source for New Production 50,000 Yearlings for Omak Creek LWS/Willard Hatchery Initially Hatch & Rear 500,000 Fingerlings Chief Joseph Dam Hatchery Takes on Full production: 900,000 Spring Chinook
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 – 4 programs Fishway from Columbia River 3 Effluent Aeration Ponds Hydroelectric Power Generation Buildings: Office/Visitors, Incubation, Fry, Shop/Feed Storage, 3 Residences
ADD MAP Chief Joseph Dam Hatchery site Chief Joseph Dam Hatchery site
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