Department of Fisheries Resources Management
Research Division

The Research Division has worked to provide the basis for a technically sound and credible management program for the Nez Perce Tribe. This program conducts applied research studies to:

• Provide information on the status (abundance) of populations.
• Determine effectiveness of hatchery supplementation programs.
• Provide smolt survival estimates through the Snake River and Columbia River hydroelectric projects.
• Provide information to support tribal fisheries.
• Make sound fisheries management recommendations for improving survival, recovery and restoration of salmon and steelhead to management and policy.
• Provide for genetic conservation of salmon and steelhead populations.
• Provide information on salmon recovery alternatives under ESA, and impact assessments.
• Participate in state and regional technical forums to promote Nez Perce Tribe policy and management goals.
  

PROJECTS:

• Lower Snake River Compensation Plan Hatchery Evaluations Project (LSRCP)
• Monitor and Evaluate Yearling Fall Chinook Released Upstream of Lower Granite Dam
• Nez Perce Tribal Hatchery Monitoring and Evaluation Spring Chinook Project
• Nez Perce Tribal Hatchery Monitoring and Evaluation Fall Chinook Project
• Grande Ronde Supplementation - Lostine Monitoring and Evaluation Project
• Captive Broodstock Artificial Propagation Project
• Imnaha River Smolt Monitoring Project
• Chinook Salmon Adult Abundance Monitoring Project
• Preserve Salmonid Gametes Project
• Evaluate Salmon Supplementation Studies in Idaho Rivers (ISS)
• Johnson Creek Artificial Propagation Enhancement Monitoring and Evaluation Program (JCAPE M&E)
• Coho Salmon Monitoring and Evaluation Project
• Safety Net Artificial Propagation
• Northeast Oregon Hatchery Monitoring and Evaluation Project (NEOH M&E)
  

  Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Northeast Oregon Hatchery Imnaha and Grande Ronde Subbasin Spring Chinook Salmon

• Collaborative System-wide Monitoring and Evaluation Project