Strategic Framework for Pacific Lamprey Supplementation
and RME above McNary Dam
Project Sponsor: Yakama Nation and Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission
Grant Amount: $100,000
Year: 2012
The Yakama Nation and the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) sought funds to support ongoing activities associated with Pacific Lamprey above McNary Dam. These funds were utilized in collaboration/coordination with other regional resources to develop research, monitoring and
evaluation to meet the regional goal to restore Pacific Lamprey. These primary objectives included:
- Develop a research, monitoring and evaluation plan focused on Lamprey habitat assessments upstream of McNary Dam for future restoration efforts and to develop juvenile Lamprey artificial production capability for passage, habitat and survival studies to avoid use of naturally produced Lamprey for these needed studies. As part of this objective, funds will be used to establish a workshop of lamprey experts to scope plan development.
- Support adult lamprey research, monitoring and evaluation for lamprey in the Yakama Basin. The primary objective is to provide initial funding for a 3-year (2010-2012) Yakama Basin Pacific Lamprey radio tracking project (monitoring and evaluation) to identify if adult passage is impeded by four diversion dams in the Yakima River Basin. A secondary objective is to gain information about critical uncertainties and limiting factors with respect to Lamprey habitat preferences and life cycle attributes such as adult migration, holding, and spawning.
Other grants funded by the Committee involving Lamprey include:
- Lamprey Test Tank
- Lamprey Habitat Restoration Guide
- Lamprey Screen Type Testing
- Migration Behavior, Passage Success and Fates of Adult Pacific Lamprey in the Snake River, Update Receivers
- Yakama River Adult Lamprey Tracking- Year 1
- Yakama River Adult Lamprey Tracking Tags Only- Year 2
