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WHO KILLED THE SNAKE RIVER SALMON

June 1

CELILO FALLS

COMMERCIAL HARVEST – 1860s to 1970s

PEAK HARVEST 43 MILLION POUNDS – 1886 -SPRING CHINOOK SECOND PEAK 1910 – 43 MILLION POUNDS - ALL SPECIES

EAST BOAT BASIN - ASTORIA

MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION ACT - 1972

NOAA RECENT ESTIMATE 20 TO 40 % OF SPRING CHINOOK

Gold Dredge at Sumpter, Oregon

Dredged Powder River Valley Oregon

LOGGING

WATERSHED DAMAGE EROSION SPLASH DAMS WATER RETENTION

ROAD CONSTRUCTION METHODS

Mainstem Snake River Dams

WITHOUT FISH PASSAGE

Shoshone Falls (Upper Limit) Upper Salmon Falls – 1937 Lower Salmon Falls - 1910 Bliss Dam – 1950

• C. J. Strike Dam -

1952 Swan Falls Dam -1901 Brownlee Dam – 1959 Oxbow dam – 1961 Hells Canyon Dam – 1967

WITH FISH PASSAGE

Lower Granite Dam – 1975 Little Goose Dam 1970 Lower Monumental Dam – 1969 Ice Harbor Dam - 1962

SHOSHONE FALLS

Tributary Dams

Owyhee River Wild Horse Dam – 1937 Owyhee Dam – 1932 Boise River Anderson Ranch Dam – 1950 Arrowrock Dam – 1915 Boise R Diversion Dam – 1912 Lucky Peak Dam - 1955 Barber Dam - 1906 Payette River Black Canyon Dam – 1924 Deadwood Dam - 1929 Malheur River Warm Springs Dam – 1930 Agency Valley Dam – 1936 Bully Creek Dam – 1963 Powder River Thief Valley Dam – 1931 Mason Dam - 1968 Salmon River Sunbeam Dam – 1909 – 1934 Wallowa River OFC Dam 1898 - 1914 Clearwater River Lewiston Dam – 1917 - 1973 Grangeville Dam – 1910 – 1963 Dworshak Dam - 1972

Sunbeam Dam – Salmon River 1909 to 1934

1909 to 1920s - no fish passage 1920s to 1934 - poor fish passage Channel around by IDF&G 1934

NOTE 3 PEOPLE IN RED CIRCLE

Historic Range of Salmon

SNAKE RIVER 65% OF SPRING/ SUMMER CHINOOK HABITAT LOST 85 % OF FALL CHINOOK HABITAT LOST

COLUMBIA RIVER FISHERIES

2000000 4000000 6000000 8000000 10000000 12000000 14000000 16000000 18000000 1865 1874 1883 1892 1901 1910 1919 1928 1937 1946 1955 1964 1973 1982 1991 2000 2009 TOTAL SALMON ICAT RCOM OCOM SPCAT ESCAP

BON MCN TDA IHR JDA LMO LGO LGR ESCAPEMENT

HABITAT LOSS

INLAND PREDATORS

NON-RESIDENT PREDATORS

16 POUND WALLEYE INTRODUCED BY IDF&G PROTECTED AS GAME FISH UNTIL 2013 SIZE AND BAG LIMITS REMOVED IN MIGRATION CORRIDORS 16 PLUS 10 POUNDER CAUGHT IN APRIL REDUCED POPULATION BY 750,000 WALLEYE FRY FOR 2016

CROSS SECTION OF LOWER MONUMENTAL DAM

• 1. TURBINE INTAKE
• 2. TRAVELING FISH SCREEN
• 3. VERTICAL SCREEN
• 4. ORIFICE INTO TUNNEL
• 5. TUNNEL BYPASS
• 6. POWERHOUS COLLECTION

SYSTEM 1 2 3 4 6 5

SPILLWAY CONDITIONS

❑ AT ALL EIGHT CORPS DAMS, SPILL COMES OUT FROM UNDER SPILLWAY GATES - 40 TO 50 FEET OF HEAD ON WATER ❑ WATER SHOOTS THROUGH NARROW SLOT AT ~ 35 MILES PER HOUR ❑ INSTANTANEOUS PRESSURE DROP – 1.5 ATMOSPHERES ❑ RAPID EXPANSION ENTRAINS AIR ❑ AIR SUPERATURATED IN STILLING BASIN (UP TO 150%) ❑ HEAD BURN ON ADULT FISH ❑ EFFECT ON JUVENILE FISH WITH GAS IN BLOOD STREAM

COST ~ $15 MILLION REMOVABLE SPILLWAY WEIR – “FISH SLIDE”

WATER TEMPERATURE

1950s STUDY - 83°F IN AUGUST AT MOUTH OF SNAKE RIVER HIGHEST RECORDED SINCE ICE HARBOR DAM (1962) - 77°F 75 to 78°F WATER FROM CLEARWATER RIVER AND HELLS CANYON CAN BE TRACKED DOWN THROUGH FOUR SNAKE RIVER RESERVOIRS 50 to 60°F RELEASES FROM DWORSHAK RESERVOIR SINCE EARLY 1990s HAVE KEPT MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE BELOW 70°F AT LOWER GRANITE EPA/STATE STANDARDS OF 68°F DO NOT FIT THE NATURAL TEMPERATURE REGIME IN THE SNAKE RIVER FRASER RIVER WARMING COMPARABLE TO COLUMBIA RIVER WARMING FRASER RIVER HAS NO MAINSTEM DAMS

EFFECT OF WARM WATER

OVER 600,000 ENTERED COLUMBIA, LESS THAN 200,000 SURVIVED TO SPAWNING GROUND

DRANO LAKE JUNE 2015

FRASER RIVER THERMAL KILL 2015

TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE

STATUS OF SALMON RUNS

BONNEVILLE DAM 1938-2015 SPR CHIN SUM CHIN FALL CHIN LOWEST COUNT 12,861(95)* 12,604(44) 101,218(60) HIGHEST COUNT 439,558(01) 179,465(15) 1,064,263(13) LAST 10YR AVERAGE 171,288 117,335 587,376 ICE HARBOR DAM 1962 - 2015 SPR CHIN SUM CHIN FALL CHIN LOWEST COUNT 1,873(95)* 915(95)* 1,474(76) HIGHEST COUNT 219,408(15) 39,136(11) 79,333(14) LAST 10YR AVERAGE 151,681 23,384 53,630 LOWER GRANITE DAM 1975 - 2015 TOTAL CHINOOK LOWEST COUNT 3,702(95)* HIGHEST COUNT 203,259(15) LAST 10YR AVERAGE 145,088

* FROM 1977 THROUGH 1995, FLOWS WERE BELOW NORMAL IN THE SNAKE RIVER BASIN

STATUS OF SALMON RUNS

BONNEVILLE DAM 1938-2015 STEELHEAD SOCKEYE COHO LOWEST COUNT 85,540(75) 9,135(95)* 790(45) HIGHEST COUNT 676,793(01) 624,179(14) 294,534(14) LAST 10YR AVERAGE 347,762 285,126 129,219 ICE HARBOR DAM 1962 - 2015 STEELHEAD SOCKEYE COHO LOWEST COUNT 12,528(74) 0(94) 0(86-93) HIGHEST COUNT 328,105(09) 2,393(14) 16,077(14) LAST 10YR AVERAGE 169,067 874 4,310 LOWER GRANITE DAM 1975 - 2015 STEELHEAD SOCKEYE COHO LOWEST COUNT 17,311(75) 0(90) 0(84-96) HIGHEST COUNT 323,679(09) 2,786(14) 18,651(14) LAST 10YR AVERAGE 171,551 1,035 4,660

* FROM 1977 THROUGH 1995, FLOWS WERE BELOW NORMAL IN THE SNAKE RIVER BASIN

IDAHO SPAWNING GROUND COUNTS

LOWEST: 2,327 SP/SU CHINOOK OVER LGR IN 1995 – 270 REDDS HIGHEST: 96,208 H & W SP/SU CHINOOK OVER LGR IN 2011 – 6,500 REDDS NATURAL SPAWNERS: 28,000 OVER LGR IN 2015 PRODUCED OVER 4,100 REDDS IN 2015, 0VER 450 REDDS FOUND IN THE SOUTH FORK CLEARWATER RIVER (BLOCKED BY GRANGEVILLE DAM FROM 1910 TO 1963 AND LEWISTON DAM 1917 – 1973)

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POLLUTION THAT GOES

INTO THE ENVIRONMENT IS CONCENTRATED AT EACH LEVEL IN THE FOOD WEB. AS AN APEX PREDATOR ORCAS RECEIVE DOSES CONCENTRATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Aldrin Chlordane Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT) Dieldrin Endrin Heptachlor Hexachlorobenzene Mirex Toxaphene Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (dioxins) Polychlorinated dibenzofurans (furans)

20 YEAR OLD MOTHER ORCA (J 35) PUSHED DEAD CALF FOR DAYS , ALMOST 100 MILES BEFORE GIVING UP MOTHERS CONCENTRATE PESTICIDES IN FETUS, THEN IN MILK WHEN STARVING, PESTICIDES CONCENTATE EVEN MORE

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