Preliminary draft priorities for compartments within the Mainstem and Systemwide proposals for BPA funding in FY 2007-2009

For this review cycle, the Council’s 2000 Fish and Wildlife Program, 2003 Mainstem Amendment, the 2004 NOAA FCRPS Biological Opinion (under remand), and other biological opinions will be used as the primary guidance documents. The Council recently approved a Research Plan and is currently developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan which will also guide project selection.

Coordination

• Support coordination of F&W managers for project selection, implementation, system operations
• Council support – ISRP & ISAB
• Coordination of monitoring and evaluation for habitat conditions and artificial production
• Coordination of Research
• Coordination of information dissemination

Data Management

• Support mainstem passage monitoring
• Maintain habitat data from subbasin plans
• Maintain artificial production data
• Maintain harvest data
• Quality standards from the F&W Program:
• internet based distribution system
• reporting consistent with the F&W Program

Monitoring and Evaluation – Status, trends and effectiveness monitoring of:

• Hydro passage effectiveness
• Tributary habitat status and trends
• Estuary habitat status, trends
• Artificial production status, trends and effectiveness
• Predations
• Fish and wildlife status and trends
• Harvest
• Project effectiveness

Habitat

• Water/land acquisition
• Predator control
• Mainstem habitat

Research

• Artificial production
• Fish passage/survival
• Habitat
• Ocean
• Harvest