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Lower Yuba River Accord Monitoring and Evaluation Program and Interim Report Overview Gary Reedy South Yuba River Citizens League Lower Yuba River Symposium June 12, 2013 1 Requirements of the Yuba Accord Fisheries Agreement (2005) Monitor

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Monitoring and Evaluation Program and Interim Report Overview

Lower Yuba River Accord

Lower Yuba River Symposium June 12, 2013

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Gary Reedy South Yuba River Citizens League

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Monitoring & Evaluation Program 2

Requirements of the Yuba Accord Fisheries Agreement (2005)

  • Monitor and evaluate “the effectiveness of the

implementation of the Lower Yuba River Accord”

  • Evaluate “the condition of fish resources in the Lower

Yuba River”

  • Evaluate “the viability of Lower Yuba River fall-run

Chinook salmon and any sub-populations of the Central Valley steelhead and spring-run Chinook salmon Evolutionarily Significant Units (ESUs) that may exist in the Lower Yuba River”

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  • Maintains Fish in Good Condition
  • Fish and Game Code § 5937
  • Promotes Viable Salmonid Populations
  • NMFS Recovery Assessment

EVALUATE WHETHER OR NOT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE YUBA ACCORD . . . IDENTIFY AND EVALUATE . . .

  • Flow and Water

Temperature Relationships with

  • Fish Populations
  • Aquatic Habitat Attributes

M&E Program Goals and Framework

Monitoring & Evaluation Program 3 M&E Plan Structure:

  • Establish Performance Indicators
  • Identify Data Requirements
  • Define Analytics
  • Examine Relationships Between

Measures of VSP Parameters and Flows and Water Temperatures

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Monitoring & Evaluation Program 4

Re-framed M&E Program Goals

  • Evaluate the condition and viability of fish populations

in the lower Yuba River

  • Identify and evaluate relationships between flow and

water temperature and …

  • Fish populations
  • Aquatic habitat attributes
  • Determine whether the Yuba Accord flow schedules

provide conditions that are protective of the fishery resources of the lower Yuba River

  • Maintain physical habitat attributes that provide
  • pportunity for good condition of aquatic resources and viable

salmonid populations.

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M&E Program Activities

  • Flow & Water Temperature Monitoring
  • VAKI Riverwatcher System Monitoring
  • Morphological Unit & Mesohabitat Classification
  • Digital Elevation Modeling
  • 2-D Hydraulic Modeling
  • Substrate & Cover Classification & Mapping
  • Acoustic Tagging and Tracking
  • Genetic Analyses
  • Chinook Salmon Carcass Surveying
  • Otoliths, Scales, Tissue, CWT Sampling
  • Redd Surveying
  • Juvenile Snorkel Surveying
  • Rotary Screw Trapping
  • Riparian Vegetation Mapping

Monitoring & Evaluation Program DATA COLLECTION PROTOCOLS AND PROCEDURES 5

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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

SWRCB issued water right

  • rders; official

implementation

  • f the Yuba

Accord RMT published annual reports describing individual year results (2008 – 2011) Technical Team developed Yuba Accord flow schedules, including water temperature considerations (2001 – 2004) Yuba Accord implemented

  • n a “pilot

program” basis (2006 – 2007)

Monitoring & Evaluation Program

Yuba Accord Implementation

RMT begins multi-year trend evaluation for M&E Report Draft Yuba Accord signed by YCWA, resource agencies, PG&E and NGOs RMT published Final M&E Frame- work Water Temperature Objectives Memorandum

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Draft Interim Report (April 2013)

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  • M&E program is scheduled and funded to run through at least 2015.
  • Interim Report is a ‘report card’ on implementation of the Yuba Accord
  • For regulators, stakeholders and the broader scientific community
  • To inform the relicensing process before the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission currently underway for YCWA facilities in the Yuba River Watershed (the Yuba River Development Project, FERC Project No. 2246)

  • The RMT will seek input and comment from the scientific community in order

to refine the work planned for the next few years, and hopefully beyond. Available for review through July 12. www.yubaaccordrmt.com

Monitoring & Evaluation Program

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What’s in the Report?

8 Monitoring & Evaluation Program

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Chapters 1 through 3

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  • 1. Introduction to the Yuba Accord
  • 2. M&E Program

Overview

  • 3. Physical habitat conditions
  • Historic
  • Current

Monitoring & Evaluation Program

NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR JUL AUG SEP Annual

1-15 16-31 1-30 1-31 1-31 1-29 1-31 1-15 16-30 1-15 16-31 1-15 16-30 1-31 1-31 1-30 Vol. (TAF)

1

500 500 500 500 500 500 700 1000 1000 2000 2000 1500 1500 700 600 500 574

2

500 500 500 500 500 500 700 700 800 1000 1000 800 500 500 500 500 429

3

500 500 500 500 500 500 500 700 700 900 900 500 500 500 500 500 399

4

400 400 500 500 500 500 500 600 900 900 600 400 400 400 400 400 362

5

400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500 600 600 400 400 400 400 400 400 335

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350 350 350 350 350 350 350 350 500 500 400 300 150 150 150 350 232

OCT APR MAY JUN

McElhany et al. 2000

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Chapter 4

New Developments in Anadromous Salmonid Life History Characterizations

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Lifestage Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Spring-run Chinook Salmon Adult Immigration & Holding Spawning Embryo Incubation Fry Rearing Juvenile Rearing Juvenile Downstream Movement Smolt (Yearling+) Emigration 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 9/1 9/16 10/1 10/16 10/31 11/15 11/30 12/15 12/30 Fresh Carcasses Relative Cumulative Proportion Date

Chinook Salmon Carcass Temporal Distribution Upstream of DPD

Pre-Accord (1999-2005) Accord (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010) 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00

Cumulative Fraction Cumulative Distribution of Weekly Observed Catch

All Years Expected Distribution Pre Accord Expected Distribution Accord Expected Distribution

Refined lifestage periodicity Adult spawning timing Redd superimposition Juvenile outmigrant timing

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Chapter 5

Condition and Viability of Anadromous Salmonids in the Lower Yuba River

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Fish community evaluations Spring- and fall-run Chinook salmon differentiation Hatchery influences

500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

  • No. of Fish

Year

Spring-run Chinook Salmon Upstream of Daguerre Point Dam

Ad-Clipped Fish Not Ad-Clipped Fish

r2 = 0.104 P = 0.437 r2 = 0.056 P = 0.571

Water temperature evaluations

Date 8/24/05 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 3/1 4/1 5/1 6/1 7/1 8/1 9/1 10/1 11/1 12/1 1/1 2/1 3/1

  • No. of Fish

Date 2005 Chinook Salmon Passing Daguerre Point Dam Spring-run Chinook Salmon Predicted Logistic Fall-run Chinook Salmon Predicted Logistic Chinook salmon = 11,374 fish 9/6/06 50 100 150 200 250 3/1 4/1 5/1 6/1 7/1 8/1 9/1 10/1 11/1 12/1 1/1 2/1 3/1

  • No. of Fish

Date 2006 Chinook Salmon Passing Daguerre Point Dam Spring-run Chinook Salmon Predicted Logistic Fall-run Chinook Salmon Predicted Logistic Chinook salmon = 5,203 fish 9/4/07 10 20 30 40 50 60 3/1 4/1 5/1 6/1 7/1 8/1 9/1 10/1 11/1 12/1 1/1 2/1

  • No. of Fish

Date 2007 Chinook Salmon Passing Daguerre Point Dam Spring-run Chinook Salmon Predicted Logistic Fall-run Chinook Salmon Predicted Logistic Chinook salmon = 1,394 fish Species January February March June September Total California Roach 1 1 Chinook Salmon 554 1622 3205 141 20 5542 Steelhead Trout 4 7 11 Riffle Sculpin 1 1 2 Sacramento Pikeminnow 1 105 126 232 Sacramento Sucker 119 119 Tule Perch 2 2 Unknown Cyprinid 6 18733 281 19020 Unknown Salmonid 1 1 Largemouth Bass 1 1 Total 554 1630 3205 18985 557 24931

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Chapter 6

Lower Yuba River Regional Interactions

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Comparisons to the Sacramento River System Comparisons to the Feather River

5.9% 17.8% 6.8% 3.7% 10.0% 14.3% 43.9% 16.8% 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Sacramento River System Spring-run Chinook Salmon Spring-run Chinook Salmon Escapement (% Yuba River/ Sacramento River System) Year 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 16,000 18,000 20,000 22,000 24,000 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Sacramento River System (No. of Fish) Yuba River (No. of Fish) Year

Spring-run Chinook Salmon

Yuba River Sacramento River System without Yuba River

r2 = 0.7192 P = 0.0078 r2 = 0.0061 P = 0.8543

1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000 10,000 11,000 12,000 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000 10,000 11,000 12,000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Feather River In-River Spawners (No. of Fish) Yuba River In-River Spawners (No. of Fish) Year

Spring-run Chinook Salmon

Yuba River Feather River

r2 = 0.2992 P = 0.1606 r2 = 0.0061 P = 0.8543

16.5% 7.3% 13.5% 33.4% 24.2% 9.0% 7.7% 5.7% 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 80,000 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Escapement (No. of Fish) Spring-run Chinook Salmon Hatchery Escapement (% Sring-run / Spring + Fall Hatchery Escapement) Year

Feather River Chinook Salmon Escapement

In-River Escapement FRFH Escapement

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  • M&E Program Goals
  • Physical Habitat Attributes
  • Performance of the Accord
  • Key Findings of the M&E Program
  • Future Monitoring Considerations
  • RMT to identify additional monitoring and evaluation

activities to be conducted prior to the spring of 2016.

Monitoring & Evaluation Program

Chapter 7

Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations