may 2009 public comments on hli summary and staff recommendations
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Image: NOAA-Fisheries. May 2009 Public Comments on HLI Summary and Staff Recommendations. Nancy Leonard Tony Grover Tom Karier. Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership. Public Input. Who Commented?. Bonneville Power Adm. Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority (CBFWA). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
May 2009 Public Comments on HLI
Summary and Staff Recommendations
Nancy Leonard Tony Grover Tom Karier
Image: NOAA-Fisheries
Who Commented?
1. Bonneville Power Adm.
2. Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority (CBFWA).
3. Eddie Farr.
4. Federal Caucus members.
5. ID Office of Species Conservation.
6. Kootenai Tribe of Idaho.
7. Lynn Card.
8. NOAA Fisheries.
9. Oregon Water Trust.
10. Pacific Northwest Anadromous Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP).
Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest Aquatic Aquatic
Monitoring Monitoring Partnership Partnership
Public InputPublic Input
Who Commented?
11. Pacific Northwest Utilities. Conference Committee.
12. Public Power Council.
13. Richard Whitney.
14. River Partners.
15. StreamNet.
16. The Freshwater Trust.
17. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
18. Washington Forum on Monitoring.
19. ISAB and ISRP.
20. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.
Overall Comments on HLIs
Majority are supportive of the Council’s endeavor to develop HLIs to communicate FW Program progress.
Image: PNAMP’s HLI comment letter
Overall Comments on HLIs
Majority are supportive of the Council’s endeavor to develop HLIs to communicate FW Program progress.
Majority encourage better coordination of Council’s HLI with the region.
Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest Aquatic Aquatic Monitoring
Monitoring Partnership Partnership
Overall Comments on HLIs
Majority are supportive of the Council’s endeavor to develop HLIs to communicate FW Program progress.
Majority encourage better coordination of Council’s HLI with the region.
Many request clarification to facilitate evaluating proposed HLIs.
Majority suggests improvements for Council’s HLIs, consisting of modifications, deletions, and additions– Including …
Summary of 8 Major Suggestionsfor Indicators
1. Consider reorganizing some indicators into different categories or add additional categories / subcategories Such as. . .
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Biological
Watershed Condition
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Implementation / Habitat Implementation
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Summary of 8 Major Suggestionsfor Indicators
1. Consider reorganizing some indicators into different categories or add additional categories / subcategories.
2. Implementation Indicators’ should be subdivided by habitat type and by different units (avoid combining apples and oranges).
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Estuary
Summary of 8 Major Suggestionsfor Indicators
1. Consider reorganizing some indicators into different categories or add additional categories / subcategories.
2. Implementation Indicators’ should be subdivided by habitat type and by different units (avoid combining apples and oranges).
3. Include mid Columbia salmonids and resident fish in HLI scope.
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Summary of 8 Major Suggestionsfor Indicators
1. Consider reorganizing some indicators into different categories or add additional categories / subcategories.
2. Implementation Indicators’ should be subdivided by habitat type and by different units (avoid combining apples and oranges).
3. Include mid Columbia salmonids and resident fish in HLI scope.
4. Salmonids’ abundance reported at population level for each Ecologically Significant Units/ Distinct Population Segments.
26 listed West Coast salmon and steelhead ESUs www.nwfsc.noaa.gov
Summary of 8 Major Suggestionsfor Indicators
1. Consider reorganizing some indicators into different categories or add additional categories / subcategories.
2. Implementation Indicators’ should be subdivided by habitat type and by different units (avoid combining apples and oranges).
3. Include mid Columbia salmonids and resident fish in HLI scope.
4. Salmonids’ abundance reported at population level for each Ecologically Significant Units/ Distinct Population Segments.
5. Report spawner, juvenile, and harvest counts for wild and hatchery salmonids.
Rotary screw trap - WDFWSpawning salmon - ODFW
6. Harvest and fishery rate should match how they are reported by fishery managers.
Summary of 8 Major Suggestions - continued
6. Harvest and fishery rate should match how they are reported by fishery managers.
7. Ocean and resident fish harvest indicators’ metrics and data availability need further consideration.
Summary of 8 Major Suggestions - continued
6. Harvest and fishery rate should match how they are reported by fishery managers.
7. Ocean and resident fish harvest indicators’ metrics and data availability need further consideration.
8. Consider removing “Life Stage Survival”
indicator as not adding value.
Summary of 8 Major Suggestions - continued
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Staff Recommendation: Phase I: Workshop to Finalize
‘Ready to go’ HLIs Timeframe:
– June 2009 / July 2009. Participants:
– Council members, entities that commented on HLIs, other interested parties.
To do: – Finalize HLIs for 6 implementation and 4 biological performance
measures (tables 1 & 2): Management questions, performance measures, indicator
name, metrics, data source, data availability/quality. Goal:
– Present for adoption during July/August Council meeting.– If possible, include these HLIs in 2010 Congressional Report.
Staff Recommendation:Phase II: Workshops for Refinement & Coordination of Other Indicators
Timeframe:– End of summer 2009 to end of spring 2010.
Participants: – Council members, entities that commented on HLIs, other
parties. To do:
– Assess priority & feasibility for remaining 9 proposed HLI topics.– For selected HLIs, develop & refine management questions,
performance measures, indicator names, metrics, and data availability.
Goal:– Dec 2009 complete fish abundance & watershed condition HLIs.– Complete other priority/selected HLIs by May 2010.– Include these HLIs in 2011 Congressional Report.
