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What do we have in common?
Do more with less!
PNAMP
Integrated Status & Trend Monitoring Workgroup
Common Question:
What is the status and trend of fish and/or the ecosystems that support them?
PNAMP
Integrated Status & Trend Monitoring Workgroup
Logical improvements in the cost-effectiveness of monitoring efforts include:• Reduce duplication of effort (particularly true for habitat)• Collect data to inform at multiple scales• Promote data sharing • Agree on overarching set of monitoring questions• Common protocols or ways to “crosswalk” data derived from disparate protocols
PNAMP
Integrated Status & Trend Monitoring Workgroup
Focus on demonstrating in the Lower Columbia River, processes and tools that aid in development and management of regional strategic action plans for monitoring the status and trend of fish habitat, watershed health, and fish populations.
ISTM Goal:Improve integration of existing and new efforts that are intended to address status and trend questions.
PNAMP
Why the Lower Columbia River area?
• Numerous fish populations, multiple ESUs and DPSs listed under ESA
• Lower mainstem Columbia River and Estuary is a common migration/rearing corridor for LCR and upriver anadromous salmonid populations
• Integration and coordination • states• federal land managers• recovery plans status assessments under ESA• local entities
Anticipated contributions of ISTM
• Coordination • Tools for designing monitoring programs and analyzing
data• Examples of how to integrate the master sample concept
with existing monitoring efforts• Specific recommendations for developing a coordinated,
integrated, and efficient monitoring programs for fish and habitat the LCR
• Recommendations to other areas of the Pacific Northwest on how they may develop more coordinated, integrated, and efficient monitoring programs for fish and habitat
• Recommendations on metadata requirements to describe survey designs, protocols, and resulting data
PNAMP
Initial focus was on habitat condition and watershed health monitoring in tributary areas – universal
Developed draft white paper on the need for a GRTS-based master sample of sites for the LCR.
This led to BPA funding OSU’s StatNat to develop website
More recently, interest expressed in expanding concept of master sample for estuary habitat monitoring
Also began to work on coordination and integration of fish monitoring in the LCR.
Decisions and
questions
Sampling frames
Review existing
programs
Trade-off analyses
Implementation recommendations
Salmon and steelhead monitoring
Fish Monitoring Portion of ISTM project has leapt ahead by developing a draft proposal with 5 basic objectives
1. Identify decisions, questions, and objectives2. Establish sampling frames3. Review existing programs and designs4. Use trade-off analyses to develop recommendations for
monitoring5. Recommend implementation and reporting mechanisms
Habitat & watershed condition monitoring
1. Compile & truth a list of existing m&e projects and programs 2. Develop ESU/DPS specific monitoring visions for all necessary
monitoring3. Identify ESU/DPS specific gaps, redundancies and potential
efficiencies4. Identify potential strategies to fill gaps and improve efficiencies
at the ESU/DPS level5. Bring policy-aware, technical m&e experts together to develop a
set of comprehensive m&e strategy proposals 6. Vet as appropriate and necessary with regional decision makers.
Columbia Basin “Comprehensive anadromous M&E strategy”
Threats• Habitat• Hydro• Harvest• Disease & Predation• Regulatory Mechanisms• Hatchery• Natural
Viability Parameters• Abundance• Productivity• Spatial Distribution• Diversity
Populations Strata ESUs
Scale & Location
Action Evaluation• Compliance and Implementation• Effectiveness
Critical Uncertainty Research
Tributaries Estuary Columbia Mainstem Ocean
Status & Trend
Context with proposed Columbia Basin “Comprehensive anadromous M&E strategy”
Threats• Habitat• Hydro• Harvest• Disease & Predation• Regulatory Mechanisms• Hatchery• Natural
Viability Parameters• Abundance• Productivity*• Spatial Distribution• Diversity
Populations Strata ESUs
Scale & Location
Action Evaluation• Compliance and Implementation• Effectiveness
Critical Uncertainty Research
Tributaries Estuary Columbia Mainstem Ocean
Status & Trend
Context with proposed Columbia Basin “Comprehensive anadromous M&E strategy”
What’s next?• Identify common information needs • Finalize, fund, & implement fish proposal• Develop similar proposal for habitat• Estuary and LCR mainstem monitoring• Implement GRTS website• Data management• Protocol alignments & crosswalks
PNAMP
Integrated Status & Trend Monitoring Workgroup
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