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Fish and Wildlife

The Council works to protect and enhance fish and wildlife in the Columbia River Basin. Its Fish & Wildlife Program guides project funding by the Bonneville Power Administration.

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2020 Addendum 2014/2020 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program Subbasin Plans Project Reviews and Recommendations

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The Council develops a plan, updated every five years, to ensure the region’s power supply and acquire cost-effective energy efficiency.

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  1. WEBPAGE

    2_use_of_hatcheries_for_reintroduction

    2_use_of_hatcheries_for_reintroduction Strategy The purpose of reintroduction is to return lost salmon and steelhead into blocked areas, or to re-establish populations in watersheds accessible for anadromy but where the native population had been...
  2. WEBPAGE

    Hatchery reviews referenced by the Program

    Hatchery reviews referenced by the Program Over the last 25 years, salmon propagation practices have undergone extensive reviews by the Council, state and federal agencies, Indian tribes, and independent science panels, with particular attention following...
  3. WEBPAGE

    Informal Hatchery Workgroup

    Informal Hatchery Workgroup Meetings February 2022 September 2021 May 2021 December 2020 September 2020 March 2020 (DRAFT Story Map) October 2019 June 2019 (development of mission statement) May 2019
  4. WEBPAGE

    Update on the Draft Anadromous Salmonid Monitoring Strategy: Viable Salmonid Population Criteria and Subset of Tributary Habitat and Hatchery Effectiveness

    Update on the Draft Anadromous Salmonid Monitoring Strategy: Viable Salmonid Population Criteria and Subset of Tributary Habitat and Hatchery Effectiveness During 2009 a series of subregional and regional workshops were convened by NOAA, CBFWA, BPA, and...
  5. WEBPAGE

    Hatcheries

    Hatcheries A hatchery is a fish farm, and fish farming in the Columbia River Basin has been utilized since the late 1800s to provide salmon and steelhead for harvest, particularly commercial harvest, and to compensate for fish losses caused by human...
  6. WEBPAGE

    B_fish_propogation_hatchery_programs

    B_fish_propogation_hatchery_programs Strategy Use hatchery programs as tools to help meet the mitigation requirements of the Northwest Power Act. Rationale Hatcheries and other propagation measures are operated for multiple purposes: to provide...
  7. REPORT
    Dec 30, 2014

    B. Fish Propagation Including Hatchery Programs

    Strategy Use hatchery programs as tools to help meet the mitigation requirements of the Northwest Power Act. Rationale Hatcheries and other propagation measures are operated for multiple purposes: to provide mitigation, species protection,...
  8. REPORT
    Feb 23, 2000
    ISAB 2000-2

    Review of the Draft Performance Standards and Indicators for Artificial Production in the Northwest Power and Conservation Council's Artificial Production Review

    In the ISAB’s letter of January 20, 2000 to the Council, we proposed to address the Council’s request to review the draft Performance Standards and Indicators appended to the Council’s Artificial Production Review (APR) by preparing three documents...
  9. REPORT
    Jul 14, 2000
    ISAB 2000-3

    Consistency of the Council’s Artificial Production Policies and Implementation Strategies with Multi-Species Framework Principles and Scientific Review Team Guidelines

    In July 1997, Congress directed the Northwest Power Planning Council (Council) to review federally funded fish hatchery programs in the Columbia River basin, with the assistance of the Independent Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) and the cooperation of...
  10. REPORT
    Oct 03, 2000
    ISAB 2000-4

    Recommendations for the Design of Hatchery Monitoring Programs and the Organization of Data Systems

    This report completes the ISAB's three-part response to your request for a review of the draft performance standards and indicators attached to the Council's Artificial Production Review (APR).With the Council's Fish and Wildlife program amendment process...
  11. REPORT
    Apr 16, 2001
    ISAB 2001-3

    Hatchery Surplus Review

    This letter is the ISAB's response to your January 29, 2001 request for our review of several questions pertaining to the disposition of "surplus" hatchery-reared adult salmon. Since salmon are beginning their seasonal migration into the basin, we are...
  12. REPORT
    Jan 13, 1997
    ISAB 97-2

    Review of a Research Proposal for Inclusion in the 1997 Smolt Monitoring Program: Comparative Survival Rate Study of Hatchery PIT Tagged Chinook

    Estimates of the effects of the hydroelectric system on the health of salmon populations are essential to guide development and implementation of salmon mitigation policy for the Fish and Wildlife Program (FWP) of the Northwest Power Planning Council, and...
  13. REPORT
    Jan 06, 1998
    ISAB 98-1

    Review of Comparative Survival Rate Study of Hatchery PIT Tagged Chinook

    Findings * The number of PIT tags to be applied is appropriate to the purposes of the study. * The utility of PIT tagging now and in the future goes beyond the immediate purposes of this study. Annual PIT tagging of similar numbers of juvenile...
  14. REPORT
    May 01, 2009
    IEAB 2009-2

    Integrated Hatchery Operations: Fish and Wildlife Program Costs and Other Economic Effects Phase 1

    This report documents a preliminary investigation of the economic effects of implementing the Hatchery Scientific Review Group (HSRG) draft recommendations on Fish and Wildlife Program (FWP) projects. Phase I study focuses on incremental hatchery...
  15. REPORT
    Jul 08, 2002
    IEAB 2002-1

    Artificial Production Review Economics Analysis Phase I

    Comments received * Bonneville Power Administration * Clatsop Economic Development Council * U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and IEAB response to USFWS Report * Part 1 - Research approach, findings, and recommendations * Part 2 -...
  16. REPORT
    Dec 01, 1998
    98-33

    Review of Artificial Production of Anadromous and Resident Fish in the Columbia River Basin

    [Introductory letter to Council Chair John Etchart, December 1, 1998] I am pleased to transmit to you the Scientific Review Team's (SRT) first report on the review of hatchery programs in the Columbia River Basin. This version of the report corrects...
  17. REPORT
    Mar 16, 2016
    ISRP 2016-5

    White Sturgeon Hatchery Master Plan Step 1 Response Review

    At the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s request of December 18, 2015, the Independent Scientific Review Panel (ISRP) reviewed a revised White Sturgeon Hatchery Master Plan: Lower Columbia and Snake River Impoundments prepared by the Columbia...
  18. REPORT
    Feb 25, 2016
    ISRP 2016-3

    Review of Colville Hatchery Fisheries Management Plan (#1985-038-00)

    In response to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s December 14, 2015 request, the ISRP reviewed the following documents provided by the Colville Confederated Tribes (CCT) Fish and Wildlife Department: “Fisheries Management Plan for Stocked...
  19. REPORT
    Apr 15, 2015
    ISRP 2015-3

    Step One Review of the White Sturgeon Hatchery Draft Master Plan: Lower Columbia and Snake River Impoundments – Response Requested

    In response to the Council’s February 17, 2015 request, the Independent Scientific Review Panel (ISRP) evaluated the White Sturgeon Hatchery Master Plan: Lower Columbia and Snake River Impoundments prepared by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish...
  20. REPORT
    Dec 10, 1997
    97-17

    Draft scoping document for the Columbia Basin Artificial Production Review

    Introduction Over the last year, the Council and others in the region have discussed the concept of a Columbia basinwide review of artificial production. The Council's 1994 program calls for such a review. The Independent Scientific Review Panel...
  21. REPORT
    Jun 07, 2000
    2000-8

    Issue paper: Master plan for Northwest Oregon Hatchery Project

    Dear Interested Party: The Northeast Oregon Hatchery project was originally identified for funding in the Northwest Power Planning Council's (Council) 1987 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program. First steps in this process began in 1988 when...
  22. REPORT
    Mar 15, 2005
    2005-3

    Klickitat Subbasin Anadromous Fishery Master Plan

    Dear Interested Party: For Fiscal Year 2001, projects in the Columbia Gorge Province were subject to the in-depth province-based review. This province includes the Klickitat subbasin. The primary fish and wildlife management activities in the Klickitat...
  23. REPORT
    Feb 17, 1999
    99-2

    Artificial Production Policy Statement on Columbia Basin Hatcheries: A Program in Transition

    also see Facilitator's report 1. INTRODUCTION Congress, in 1997, directed the Northwest Power Planning Council, with the assistance of the Independent Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB), to review federally funded hatchery programs in the Columbia...
  24. REPORT
    Jul 15, 2004
    2004-8

    Artificial Production Review and Evaluation Issue Paper

    This paper represents the latest step in the region's efforts to update and change hatchery policies in the Columbia River Basin. The paper articulates hatchery reform recommendations based on the findings of the APRE basinwide report and other hatchery...
  25. REPORT
    Apr 02, 1998
    98-5

    Artificial Production Review Committee Meeting

    (Notes from this meeting were archived as a Council document) NWPPC Conference Room, Portland, Oregon The Production Review Committee discussed an outline and draft chapter for its report on artificial production in the Columbia River Basin and...
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