Management Framework

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Nez Perce Tribe Treaty Area
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Supplementation Basics and Background Setting
the Stage for Program Specific Details
Nez Perce Tribe Department of Fisheries Resources
Management
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Topics

• Eight Step Management Process
• Management Area
• Abundance Based Goals
• Hatchery Program Purpose and Type
• Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
• Guiding Principles
• Symposium Structure

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Eight Management Steps
Management Process

• Define desired resource condition
• Determine resource status
• Identify limiting factor(s)
• Develop management options
• Apply selected management action(s)
• Monitor and evaluate results
• Modify/adjust management action or goals
• Monitor and evaluate results

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Eight Management Steps
Management Process

• Define desired resource condition
• Determine resource status
• Identify limiting factor(s)
• Develop management options
• Apply selected management action(s)
• Monitor and evaluate results
• Modify/adjust management action or goals
• Monitor and evaluate results

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Desired Resource Conditions
Management Process Step 1

• Healthy and productive populations
• Sustainable and substantial harvest
• Traditional non-selective gear types
• Throughout Usual and Accustom Area

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Nez Perce Tribe Area of Use and Influence
Management Area
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Management Process Step 1
Broad-Sense Recovery Goals
Note Current goals are considered draft and have
been developed post-initiation of the Tribes
supplementation projects.
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Project Specific Implementation Goals
Management Process Step 1

• Numeric expectations associated with
• mitigation commitments
• hatchery-origin adult returns
• life-stage specific survival rates
• Note Project specific goals established during
  individual Master Planning and other processes
  and do not necessary match broad-sense recovery
  or subbasin planning goals.

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Eight Management Steps
Management Process

• Define desired resource condition
• Determine resource status
• Identify limiting factor(s)
• Develop management options
• Apply selected management action(s)
• Monitor and evaluate results
• Modify/adjust management action or goals
• Monitor and evaluate results

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Declining and/or Low Adult Abundance
Management Process Step 2
Clearwater River Fall Chinook Redd Counts 1988 -
1995
Number of Redds
Year
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Eight Management Steps
Management Process

• Define desired resource condition
• Determine resource status
• Identify limiting factor(s)
• Develop management options
• Apply selected management action(s)
• Monitor and evaluate results
• Modify/adjust management action or goals
• Monitor and evaluate results

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Management Options
Management Process Step 4

• Hydro-system passage improvements
• Hatchery supplementation
• Habitat improvements
• Harvest restrictions

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Hatchery Program Purpose and Type
Management Process Step 4

• Purpose Options
• Harvest Augmentation
• Supplementation
• Conservation

• Type Options
• Integrated
• Segregated

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Management Process Step 4
Integrated Supplementation

• The use of hatchery production to enhance the
  viability of natural populations and support
  harvest opportunities, while keeping impacts to
  non-target populations within acceptable limits.

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Management Process Step 4
Integrated Supplementation

• In conjunction with other management actions
• Harvest (Treaty right and/or mitigation)
• Natural-origin fish inclusion in broodstock
  (pNOB)
• Hatchery-origin fish contribution to natural
  spawning (pHOS)

Streambank Stabilization
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Management Process Step 4
Proportion Natural Influence
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Program Attributes
Management Process Step 4

• See handout in packet
• All Integrated Supplementation
• All Unique in Approach

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Eight Management Steps
Management Process

• Define desired resource condition
• Determine resource status
• Identify limiting factor(s)
• Develop management options
• Apply selected management action(s)
• Monitor and evaluate results
• Modify/adjust management action or goals
• Monitor and evaluate results

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Monitoring and Evaluation
Management Process Step 6 and 8

• Local
• NPTH ME Action Plan (Hesse and Cramer 2000)
• NEOH ME Plan (Harbeck et al. 2006)
• JCAPE ME Plan (Vogel et al. 2004)
• Regional
• Collaborative System-wide Monitoring and
  Evaluation Project (CSMEP) Hatchery Subgroup
• Ad Hoc Supplementation Work Group (AHSWG)
• Standardized Performance Measures

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Primary ME Methods
Management Process Step 6 and 8

• Juvenile emigration
• Screw traps with mark recapture and Gauss Model
• Timing and survival
• PIT tags and survival modeling (Program SURPH)

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Primary ME Methods
Management Process Step 6 and 8

• Adult abundance
• Weirs with mark recapture
• Spawner escapement
• Multiple pass redd counts (index and extensive
  area) and carcass collections
• Reproductive success
• Genetic analysis (microsatellite DNA, parentage
  analysis, etc.)

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Key Guiding Principles
Guiding Principles

• Managing for high abundance is preferable to
  micro-managing scarce resources.
• When historic/natural conditions are not
  achievable, altered ecosystems which function
  adequately to maintain harvest opportunities may
  exist.
• Minimizing intrusive marking and handling of fish
  supports cultural and spiritual beliefs, respect
  for the fish, and maximum survival.
• Individual areas and populations have unique
  attributes that vary the effectiveness of
  management actions, this requires site specific
  management actions, consideration, and evaluation.

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Symposium Structure
Symposium Structure

• Project Specific Oral Presentations
• Project overview
• Implementation results
• Effectiveness monitoring
• Abundance, survival, and productivity
• Life history characteristics
• Small-scale studies
• Adaptive management
• Comment / Question Cards
• Poster Session

Natural-origin
Hatchery-origin
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Management Assumption Matrix
Symposium Structure

• See 11x17 handout in packet
• Notes
• Assumption validity assessment

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Questions?