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The Oregon components of the LSRCP program include Chinook salmon and steelhead production in the Grande Ronde and Imnaha River basins.

The primary production facility for Grande Ronde Basin Chinook salmon is Lookingglass Fish Hatchery, which has collection and acclimation facilities on Catherine Creek, the Lostine River, and the Grande Ronde River. The program began in 1978 using nonendemic stocks (Rapid River and Carson) that were phased out and replaced with endemic stocks in the 1990s.

The Imnaha River Chinook salmon program began with the collection of endemic brood stock in 1982.

The Grande Ronde Basin steelhead program began with the collection of adults at Ice Harbor Dam in 1976 and continues using the nonendemic Wallowa stock. Currently, adults are collected at Wallowa Fish Hatchery and Big Canyon Fish Facility and spawned at Wallowa Fish Hatchery. Juveniles are reared at Irrigon Fish Hatchery, and smolts are released from Wallowa Fish Hatchery and Big Canyon Acclimation Facility.

The Imnaha Basin steelhead program uses an endemic stock and began with the collection of adults in 1982. Adults are trapped and spawned at the Little Sheep Creek Facility. Juveniles are reared at Irrigon Fish Hatchery, and smolts are released at the Little Sheep Creek Acclimation Site.

The current smolt production goals are as follows: Spring Chinook (Lostine 250k, Imnaha 490k, Catherine Creek 150k, Upper Grande Ronde 250k, and Lookingglass Creek 250k), Steelhead (Imnaha 215k and Wallowa 800k), and Fall Chinook (Grande Ronde 200k).

Other goals of the LSRCP program in Oregon are to establish an annual supply of brood fish providing an egg source capable of meeting compensation goals, restore and maintain the natural spawning population, reestablish sport and tribal fisheries, and minimize the impacts of the program on resident stocks of game fish.

ODFW staff operate and maintain Lookingglass, Irrigon, and Wallowa hatcheries in addition to the Big Canyon, Little Sheep, and Imnaha acclimation sites. Staff collect broodstock, spawn, incubate, rear, mark, transport, and acclimate or release for eight different production programs. Additionally, ODFW will meet reporting requirements, provide fish health services, and maintain a fleet of fish transport trucks to complete the work.

Monitoring and evaluation have been in place since the inception of the LSRCP programs in Oregon and continue to develop and change as more facilities come into operation and problems are encountered and solved. Monitoring and evaluation follow the following general guidelines:

1. Develop and evaluate operational procedures which will meet recovery and compensation goals as well as management objectives by priority.
2. Monitor operational practices to document hatchery production capabilities and challenges.
3. Monitor fish rearing activities and results to document accomplishment of goals.
4. Coordinate research and management programs with hatchery capabilities.
5. Recommend hatchery production strategies that are consistent with endangered species recovery efforts.
6. Develop knowledge and information to guide recovery actions and to monitor recovery in the Grande Ronde and Imnaha River basins.

Oregon Department Of Fish And Wildlife

15.661 - Lower Snake River Compensation Plan

FWS Headquarters (HQ) [DOI - FWS]

Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1: Pacific [DOI - FWS]

Oregon United States

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F-FWS-FAC-23-011

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 238% from $5,187,751 to $17,523,699.