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Recovery Efforts forUpper Willamette River Chinook and Steelhead
Rob Walton
Willamette Recovery Coordinator
NOAA Fisheries, Portland, OR
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Vision of Recovery
• Healthy ecosystem and economy• Partnerships are key• Scientific principles guide our efforts• Beyond delisting
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UWR steelhead:• Molalla Pudding• N. Santiam• S. Santiam• Calapooia
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UWR Chinook:• Clackamas• Molalla Pudding• N. Santiam• S. Santiam• Calapooia• McKenzie• Middle Fork
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Adults spawn, eggs
emerge
Rearing
MigrationGrowth to
adult in ocean
Adult upstream migration
Improve All Life Stages
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Challenges Adults spawn, eggs
emerge
Rearing
MigrationGrowth to
adult in ocean
Adult upstream migration
Blocked Passage
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Challenges Adults spawn, eggs
emerge
Rearing
MigrationGrowth to
adult in ocean
Adult upstream migration
Blocked Passage
Changed Temp
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Challenges Adults spawn, eggs
emerge
Rearing
MigrationGrowth to
adult in ocean
Adult upstream migration
Blocked Passage
Changed Temp
Pre-spawning
Mortality
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Challenges Adults spawn, eggs
emerge
Rearing
MigrationGrowth to
adult in ocean
Adult upstream migration
Blocked Passage
Blocked Passage
Changed Temp
Pre-spawning
Mortality
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Challenges Adults spawn, eggs
emerge
Rearing
MigrationGrowth to
adult in ocean
Adult upstream migration
Blocked Passage
Changed TempBlocked Passage
Changed Temp
Pre-spawning
Mortality
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Challenges Adults spawn, eggs
emerge
Rearing
MigrationGrowth to
adult in ocean
Adult upstream migrationPre-spawning
Mortality
Reduced Habitat
Complexity
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Challenges Adults spawn, eggs
emerge
Rearing
MigrationGrowth to
adult in ocean
Adult upstream migrationPre-spawning
Mortality
Reduced Habitat
Complexity
Water Quality
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Focusing Our Efforts
Partnerships to protect and increase:• Diversity of habitat types• Off-channel areas with food sources• Shallow water habitat with cover• Floodplain connectivity• Water quality improvements• Streamline restoration permitting
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Focusing Our Efforts
• Implement the Willamette Project Biological Opinion
• Other consultations• Coordinated research on critical
uncertainties• Continued hatchery and harvest reform
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Moving Forward
• Reduce pre-spawning mortality• Passage at dams• Improved rearing and migration• Prioritizing actions• Partnerships• Monitoring progress
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Contacts
Rob WaltonNOAA Fisheries [email protected] 503-231-2285
Bernadette Graham-Hudson Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife 503-971-673 x1134 [email protected]