Presentation to:

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• Presentation to
• The 1st Salmon Ceremony
• Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
• Fish Wildlife Department
• Anadromous Fish Division
• Omak, WA
• 20 June 2008

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It all Started

• The people of the Confederated Tribes of the
  Colville Reservation have always been a salmon
  people.

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Recovery Planning

• Goal is viable and harvestable salmon and
  steelhead populations.
• Removes regulatory and legal hurdles related to
  salmon recovery
• Coordinates salmon recovery efforts across the
  entire Upper Columbia ESU.

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Tribal Salmon Recovery Paradigm

• Implement projects that rehabilitate habitat,
  remove passage barriers, and improve water
  quality.
• and
• Accelerate both recovery and harvest
  opportunities through hatchery supplementation.
• thus
• Creating positive trends toward recovery for all
  listed and unlisted anadromous fish populations
  within the Okanogan River basin.

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Hatchery Projects
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Spring Chinook Reintroduction
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Locally-adapted Summer Steelhead
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Kelt Reconditioning
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Skaha Lake Sockeye Reintroduction - Canada

• Began in 2000 to reestablish sockeye salmon
  throughout their historic range
• Risk assessment for 3 years
• Fry releases for 12 years
• First adult returns are anticipated this year
• For more information contact Howie Wright - ONA

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Live Capture Selective Harvest
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Chief Joseph Hatchery

• This hatchery is planned to be constructed in
  2010 to improve both tribal, commercial and
  sport harvest.
• Annual planned releases are
• 1.3 million yearling summer/fall Chinook
• 700,000 sub-yearling summer/fall Chinook and
• 900,000 spring Chinook yearlings into the
  Okanogan River and Upper Columbia River.
• Releases are planned to begin in 2011
• Releases should produce between
• 40 and 200 thousand harvestable summer/fall
  Chinook adults
• 18 and 90 thousand harvestable spring Chinook
• Adults should begin returning in 2014
• For additional information Joe Peone

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Habitat Rehabilitation
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Omak Creek Riparian rehabilitation
2004
2005
2006
2007
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Salmon CreekOID/CCT Partnership formed 1997

• Long-term water lease agreement with Okanogan
  Irrigation District (OID)
• Restores stream flows to lower Salmon Creek to
  support migrating anadromous fish
• Continues full delivery of water to OID
  irrigators
• Construction of a low-flow channel

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McIntyre Dam Fish Passage - Canada

• Reconnect 11 km of Okanagan River habitat
• Reconnect Shuttleworth Creek

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Okanogan River Restoration Initiative (ORRI) -
Canada
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Wanacut Creek

• Began in 2006 to clean-up and improve riparian
  habitat.
• Removed tons of garbage from the stream banks.
• Improved livestock watering access to reduce
  impacts on riparian habitat near the falls.
• We hope to instill a positive land ethic within
  the HUD housing complex.
• Additional clean-up and riparian restoration work
  will continue.

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The Cross Channel Project

• Began in 2008, this project will expand high
  quality spawning habitat for salmon and steelhead
  in the Okanogan River while also expanding
  coldwater refugia in the Similkameen.
• Will maintain operational flexibility of Zosel
  Dam.
• Designs for maintaining water in the channel
  along the eastern edge of Driscoll Island
  expected before 2010.

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Wildhorse Spring Creek-Steelhead and cold water
refugia
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OSHIP (Okanogan Subbasin Habitat Improvement
Program)
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How are we doing?

• The Okanogan Basin Monitoring and Evaluation
  Program (OBMEP)
• http//nrd.colvilletribes.com/obmep/default.htm

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Okanogan summer steelhead
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Okanogan summer/fall Chinook
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Okanogan River Sockeye
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Summary

• The Colville Tribes are committed to recovering
  salmon and steelhead in the Okanogan River and
  throughout the region
• Over the last decade the Colville Tribes have
  taken an active leadership role in salmon
  recovery throughout the Okanogan River basin,
  Upper Columbia ESU, and Columbia River basin.
• CCT efforts over the last decade have resulted in
  increasing trends for all salmon and steelhead
  populations within the Okanogan River basin.
• Continuing efforts will hopefully strengthen
  anadromous fish populations throughout the
  Okanogan River basin.

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