Salmon Population Status

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Salmon Population Status Trends

• Task 2 Abundance Productivity
• Northwest Environmental Information Sharing
  (NWEIS) Executive Summit

2
Task 2 Vision BenefitsData Integration
Sharing
High Level Indicator Reports
ESA Listing Status Reviews

• Population Data
• Integrated Shared
• Regularly Updated

Annual Status Reports
Research
3
Task 2 Vision BenefitsRegional Monitoring
Strategy
State/Tribal FW Agencies

• Monitoring Strategy
• Fill data gaps
• Increased certainty
• Minimize redundancies
• Improve cost effectiveness

Federal Action Agencies
Salmon Recovery Regions
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Task 2 Workplan Data Integration Sharing

• Reporting
• Status of the Resource
• State of Salmon
• NOAA PCSRF/ESA
• Others

• Analyses
• Performance measures
• Viability assessments
• Research

Regional Open Access Exchange of Population
Indicators
Data Dictionary
Regular Updates
Local data management indicator derivation
Data collection
States
States
Feds
Tribes
Tribes
Others
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Task 2 Next Steps Data Dictionary
Confidence Interval
Method
Primary Indicator
Metric(s)
Method
Method
Data
Confidence Interval
Method
Natural Spawner Abundance

• Survey sampled
• Annual
• Watershed

• Redd Density
• Hatchery

• Three-pass
• Stratified random design

• Redd Counts

• Extrapolated Count
• Annual
• Watershed

• Wier Counts
• Pre-spawn mortality
• Hatchery
• Harvest

• Trapping video
• Carcass surveys

• Adult Counts
• Carcass counts

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Task 2 Workplan Regional Monitoring Strategy
What data is being collected?
Data Dictionary
Inventory
What data do we need?
Ideal monitoring design
Monitoring Guidance
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Task 2 Workplan Regional Monitoring Strategy
Guidance

Inventory
Ideal monitoring design
Gap Analysis
Gaps
Ranking

Redundancies
Collaborative Monitoring Implementation Strategy
Resources
Inventory
Gaps
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Task 2 Next Steps Monitoring Guidance

• Overview of Draft Monitoring Guidance
• High priority monitoring
• Population-level adult abundance
• Hatchery proportion of spawners
• Age structure
• Estimated population-level harvest
• Coincident juvenile abundance
• Variance and confidence intervals
• Relative uncertainty of alternative monitoring
  designs

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Task 2 Next Steps Summary of Resources Needed

• Data Dictionary
• Staff review and comment (Nov. 15th)
• Staff participation on workgroup to finalize data
  dictionary and develop inventory tool
• Monitoring Guidance
• Staff review and comment (Nov. 15th)
• Staff participation on workgroup to develop
  revised draft(s)
• Inventory and Gap Analyses
• Staff participation on workgroup to evaluate
  results of pilot inventory and gap analysis
• and/or staff support to conduct region-wide
  inventory and gap analysis

Fall 08
timeline
Fall 08
Winter 09
Winter - Spring 09