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2007_0726 DRAFT V1.1
OPERATIONAL PLAN
for
Implementation of a Pacific Northwest
Regional Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Fish
Population Status and Trend
Monitoring Design
Recommendations of the
Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership
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Introduction
a. Explain what PNAMP is and who are the participants
Rationale
a. Why an Operational Plan Is Needed
Components of Operational Plan:
a. Regional Fish Population Status and Aquatic Ecosystem
Monitoring (includes aquatic, up and upland processes
i. Monitoring Framework
1. Viable Salmonid Population Criteria
2. Statutory Listing Factors (habitat)
3. Criteria for sustainable aquatic life and
ecosystem health
ii. Productivity
1. Spawner-spawner
2. Juvenile productivity (smolts/redd, parr/redd,
emigrants/redd, etc)
iii. Population Abundance
1. Full life-history monitoring (gravel to gravel)
2. Simultaneous monitoring of juvenile migrants
and adult spawners
3. Adult abundance estimates (separate
estimates for hatchery and naturally produced
fish)
4. Juvenile migrants to the sea
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5. Protocols, Methods, Implementation and
Training
iv. Population Distribution
1. Number and spatial arrangement of spawning
areas.
2. Spatial extent of population.
3. Distance of gaps between spawning areas.
v. Species Diversity
1. Phenotypic (e.g., morphological, life history,
and/or behavioral traits) and genotypic
diversity.
2. Composition (origin) of spawners on spawning
grounds.
Action Plan For Determining Habitat Conditions and
Ecosystem Health
i. (Ecosystem) Tributary and estuary habitat
status/trend monitoring
1. Remote Sensing tools, increased scientific
rigor and reduced costs
2. Habitat quality, habitat access, water quality
and quantity, channel condition, riparian
condition, watershed health, human activities
fish presence for in situ sampling
3. Protocols, Methods, Implemetation and
Training
ii. Columbia River Hydrosystem
iii. Habitat Restoration
1. Implementation (Compliance) Monitoring
a. PCSRF
b. NWPCC/BPA
2. Effectiveness Monitoring
a. Project scale effectiveness monitoring
b. Watershed scale (IMW effectiveness
monitoring
c. Regional retrospective analysis of the
effectiveness of restoration actions
Natural Factors
i. Ocean Conditions, Climate, Drought, etc.
Instream Flow
Water Quality, Watershed Condition and Health
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f. Harvest
g. Hatcheries
i. Compliance with hatchery reform measures
ii. Testing effectiveness of reform actions
iii. Contribution to protection, conservation and
recovery of listed and unlisted fish and aquatic
ecosystems
h. Disease and predation
i. Regulatory mechanisms
Operational Plan For Coordinating Data
a. Example case study: Protocol Manager
b. Example case study: Regional Aquatic Monitoring
Activities Inventory
c. Example case study: OBMEP and ISEMP
d. How this all leads to a legitimate adaptive management
process, increased knowledge, cost control, and better
decisions.
Literature Cited
Acknowledements