U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Program Updates

For

Fish Screen Oversight Committee Workshop

September 15, 2015

USFWS Funding Programs

• National Fish Passage Program – Pacific Region ~ $750,000/year – Mountain Prairie ~$/year

• Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program • Coastal Program • National Fish Habitat Partnerships

– Western Native Trout Initiative – Pacific Marine Estuary Partnership – Hawaii Habitat Partnership – Desert Fish Habitat Partnership – Great Plains Fish Habitat Partnership – Proposed Pacific Lamprey Fish Habitat Partnership

Umatilla River PIT-Tag Arrays • Design, construct, install,

and maintain systems for continuous monitoring of PIT tagged juvenile steelhead at Bureau of Reclamation canal facilities on the Umatilla River.

• To determine "take" including delay, residualism, survival, and mortality at surface diversion structures.

PIT tag antenna array located adjacent to the fish screen on Feed Canal in the Umatilla River system.

South Leigh Creek Diversion Replacement

Before: Desert Canal Irrigation Diversion at headgate during high flows.

After: Completed diversion headworks on Desert Canal Irrigation Diversion. Screen not installed.

• Restore channel morphology so the stream can naturally maintain high value aquatic habitat

• Ensure floodplain connectivity and hydrologic support through the riparian area.

• Stabilize stream banks and establish woody vegetation

• Eliminate entrainment

Makah National Fish Hatchery Fish Entrainment

• Evaluate the extent of fish entrainment into the hatchery system and determine corrective solutions

• Modify the current river water screening or replace with state-of-art, federally approved fish screening technology.

• Ongoing since 2009, includes barrier dam replacement, final design and implementation. Cannot proceed without additional funding.

Makah NFH: Entry area to the pump house. Water goes through the 3 successively smaller grates/screens to enter the pump chamber. Salmon and steelhead are entrained in the settling ponds.

Simcoe Diversion, Toppenish

Adults live, breed and lay eggs in stream

Eggs hatch, larvae disperse

downstream to sea Planktonic larvae

Upstream migration

Diadromous Native Stream Fauna

“Amphidromy”

Awous guamensis

Atyoida busulcata Sicyopterus stimpsoni

5 fish spp – Gobiidae, 2 decapods (shrimp, prawn) 2 snail spp - Neritidae

Stenogobius hawaiiensis

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd2KEdb4MUk

Kahana Stream, O’ahu Hau is a super-dense woody plant that is encroaching into the stream channel, blocking passage, pooling water and increasing water temperatures. The project will remove the dense stand of hau along the main stream channel to improve streamflow characteristics and re-establish the historic migratory pathway.

Iao Stream, Maui

This project will develop full "mauka to makai" (mountain to ocean) habitat connectivity for fish and invertebrate migration in Iao Stream, Maui by remediating multiple barriers (an irrigation diversion and concrete channelized sections) that impede upstream and downstream migration of native Hawaiian amphidromous fauna between headwater streams and the ocean.

USFWS Contacts South and Central Idaho

Jody Brostrom, jody_brostrom@fws.gov, 208-756-5162

North Idaho Mike Faler, micheal_faler@fws.gov, 208-476-2240

Oregon Ron Rhew, ron_rhew@fws.gov, 360-604-2500

Western Washington Miranda Plumb, miranda_plumb@fws.gov, 360-753-9560

Middle and Eastern Washington Kate Terrell, kate_terrell@fws.gov, 509-548-2985

Montana Bill Rice, william_rice@fws.gov, 303-236-4219

Hawaii Gordon Smith, gordon_smith@fws.gov, 808-792-9457