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.
  
  2006 Adult Escapement Summary Report
  2007 Adult Escapement Summary Report
  2008 Adult Escapement Summary Report
  2009 Symposium on Salmon Supplementation
  
  
  SRFCS Marketing Justification - Final May 3 2004
  Marketing Integration
  

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