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Klickitat River Design and Construction-Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project (YKFP)

Klickitat Subbasin Biological Objectives

The biological goals for fish populations as summarized in the Klickitat Subbasin Plan (KSP 2004, p. v of the Executive Summary) are :…

To restore and maintain sustainable, naturally producing populations of spring chinook, steelhead that support tribal and non-tribal harvest and cultural and economic practices while protecting the biological integrity and the genetic diversity of the subbasin.

The larger, long-term objectives for fish and wildlife habitat are to
Increase reduced populations of native fish and wildlife to sustainable sizes
• Increase quantity and quality of reduced and degraded habitat to amounts that will sustain native fish and wildlife species
• Decrease fragmentation of habitat, to restore connectivity of populations and historic migration routes, within and between subbasins
The Klickitat Subbasin Plan seeks to increase run sizes for native salmonids. While providing for artificial production as one of the strategies for increasing run sizes, the also calls for hatchery and harvest practices that do not decrease native stock fitness or adversely affect run timing. Further, to reduce adverse species interactions, the subbasin plan seeks to reduce distribution of coho within subbasin and total numbers of coho above Lyle Falls. The subbasin plan addresses strategies for habitat restoration as well, but the near term efficacy of habitat improvement strategies presents institutional and technical challenges, as noted above.

Klickitat Subbasin Anadromous Fishery Master Plan (KMP)

YKFP activities in the Klickitat subbasin consist of: monitoring and evaluation of existing production activities; research designed to evaluate and implement supplementation programs to enhance natural production; and habitat restoration and enhancement. As defined by Regional Assessment of Supplementation Project (RASP 1991), supplementation is “the use artifi¬cial propagation in an attempt to maintain or increase natural production while maintaining long-term fitness of the target population and keeping ecological and genetic impacts to non-target species within specified limits”. The Project is also designed to provide harvest opportunities.

The YKFP’s Klickitat Subbasin Anadromous Fishery Master Plan is currently under review by the Council and has been reviewed by the Independent Scientific Review Panel. The YKFP has developed the KMP to enhance sustainable and harvestable populations of salmon, steelhead and other at-risk species. The KMP reflects a combination of habitat protection and restoration and hatchery supplementation to address limiting factors (see KSP 2004, Chapter 4.7 pages 126-208 and Tables 22-26, pages 133-243). . The YKFP applies an adaptive management policy, which allows for Project objectives and strategies to change as new information becomes available from Project experiments, monitoring and evaluation, and literature reviews.

Artificial production measures, such as supplementation, are required to maintain fish runs for the foreseeable future if Treaty harvest and mitigation for lost harvest opportunities are to continue. As noted in the YKFP’s M&E proposal (Project # 199506335), supplementation is a cornerstone of efforts to rebuild salmon and steelhead runs throughout the Columbia Basin (RASP 1992; NPPC 1994; CRITFC 1995).

Proposal

This proposal has four parts which include the construction of a Lyle Falls Adult Monitoring and Collection Facility, an acclimation facility at McCreedy Creek, the Wahkiacus Hatchery and Acclimation facility, and Klickitat Fish Hatcher improvements. Construction of the Lyle Falls facilities include
a) completing the design of the final 15% of the Lyle Fall Fishway & Adult Collection Facility;
b) reconstructing fishway to meet WDFW & NOAA design criteria to facilitate increased upstream passage;
c) installing adult collection facility within fishway; and
d) installing adult enumeration capabilities (i.e. video and PIT tag detection).
McCreedy Creek Facility work includes
a) completing the remaining 85% design of the McCreedy Creek Acclimation Facility;
b) conducting NEPA analysis for McCreedy Creek Acclimation Facility; and
c) constructing the acclimation facility.
Wahkiacus Hatchery & Acclimation Facility design and construction activities include
a) completing the remaining 20% design of the Wahkiacus Hatchery & Acclimation Facility;
b) conducting NEPA analysis for the facility; and
c) constructing the facility.
Work at the Klickitat Hatchery includes
a) conducting design work for Klickitat Hatchery Improvements as described in the Klickitat Hatchery Assessment prepare by Harbor Engineering, Inc. (Harbor Engineering, Inc. 2005)
b) conducting NEPA analysis for Klickitat Hatchery Improvements; and
c) constructing the Klickitat Hatchery Improvements

None

2004

2032

Mary Haight

Implementation - Project Status Report

Province	Subbasin	%
Columbia Gorge	Klickitat	100.00%

Artificial Production

Supplementation

Chinook - All Populations
Chinook - Lower Columbia River ESU
Chinook - Mid-Columbia River Spring ESU
Chinook - Upper Columbia River Summer/Fall ESU
Coho - Lower Columbia River ESU
Coho - Unspecified Population
Cutthroat Trout, Coastal - All Anadromous Populations
Lamprey, Pacific
Sockeye - All Populations
Steelhead - All Populations
Steelhead - Lower Columbia River DPS
Steelhead - Middle Columbia River DPS
Trout, Bull
Trout, Rainbow

Anadromous: 100.0%   Resident: 0.0%   Wildlife: 0.0%

Contextual - RME/AP+ Categorical Review (Public Tags)
Recent 3 Step or BiOp ISRP Review as of 6/1/21010 (Public Tags)
RM&E Plus Cat. Review - Submitted and Reviewed (Public Tags)
WA - by WE Location Expenditure (Public Tags)
RME/AP Categorical Review (Public Tags)
Council Recommended Projects (Public Tags)

None

RPA 50.6 Review/modify existing fish pop status monitoring projects,
RPA 50.6 Review/modify existing fish pop status monitoring projects,
RPA 50.6 Review/modify existing fish pop status monitoring projects