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harvesters are allowed to continue. 



Section 6.1 calls for a coordinated habitat and production process. The subregional 

 teams have not been formed to our knowledge. The coordinated habitat and production 

 process has never been developed or implemented to our knowledge. We feel the 

 subregional teams are the best next step after the individual subbasin plans were finalized 

 in the late 1980's and the Integrated System Plan was compiled. As mentioned above, 

 the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are distanced from the major activities occurring daily in 

 Portland. Those activities do not attempt the major action planning that is now sorely 

 needed in each subbasin. The subregional forums should be activated to get down to the 

 detailed work needed for action. The coordinated habitat and production process is also 

 supposed to develop and submit detailed measures to help specific pxjpulations in the 

 annual work plan. The entire Implementation Planning Process (IPP) has never been 

 attempted (with the exception of the Habitat Scoping Group efforts in 1993), and there 

 are annually at least two work plans submitted to the NPPC. One is the BPA Annual 

 Implementation Work Plan, which the NPPC is just now beginning to scrutinize for 

 Power Act compliance; and the other is the work plan submitted by the Columbia Basin 

 Fish and Wildlife Authority, which includes the specific actions called for by the fishery 

 managers. There is no mandate for BPA to fund the fishery managers' proposals. The 

 coordinated habitat and production process is also supposed to identify, evaluate, and 

 implement new production initiatives, including identification of captive broodstock 

 demonstration projects (Section 6.2G1&2) and development of portable adult collection 

 and holding facilities and juvenile acclimation and release facilities (Section 6.2G5&6). 

 This has not been done, and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes have the desire to develop 

 proposals for these on-the-ground needs. 



Section 6.2A6 & 7 calls for the development of a wild and naturally spawning salmon 

 population conservation policy and program. These have not been done to our 

 knowledge, and therefore, if they have been done, did not have the required input of the 

 Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. 



Section 6.2C3 calls for the BPA to fund evaluations of proposed supplementation 

 projects. The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes have three supplementation projects currently 

 proposed (Lemhi River, Johnson Creek, and Yankee Fork Salmon River). So far, all our 

 efforts for development of the proposals and initial evaluations under Chapter C of the 

 Integrated System Plan and the Regional Assessment of Supplementation Projects (RASP) 

 have come from dedicated staff working overtime. Much work on these projects is 

 needed, and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are still awaiting BPA funding support that 

 the Fisheries Department desperately needs in order to get these projects on line 

 producing fish in a way to take the fish from the concrete of hatcheries to the gravel for 

 natural production. 



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