This contract period from Feb. 1, 2017 through Jan. 31, 2018 would continue programmatic objectives for the coho reintroduction program.  Duties to include primary O&M activities such as acclimation, adult collections and spawning and early egg incubation in both the Methow and Wenatchee basins.  Other actions are included as well (e.g.- carcass outplanting, etc.) but are part of these overarching program goals and objectives.  M&E activities include survival measures and data collection for status and trend analyses of the coho program; both within year and for long-term comparisons.  Modifications to the 2017 calendar year of events is that the Methow program will begin to prepare for a transition to the NPIP phase, which will require approximately double the adult collections for spawning (for 1 M juvenile production for release in 2019). This was suppose to have happened in the previous contracting period but due to insufficient adult returns, increase will be delayed for the second straight year.  This had been originally scheduled for 2018 releases for Methow NPIP but with the delays of 8mile (SUP through USFS) and poor adult returns, YN had to make the determination to delay a year to maintain project integrity for all releases during NPIP to occur simultaneously.  The Wenatchee program continues to work through the BDPII phase of the program and will look to repeat project-specific studies to try and determine if a contingency can be implemented if adults are unable to ascend Tumwater Canyon at the rate required to meet BDPII objectives.