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those measures by the responsible agencies, and particularly those measures in the 

 Strategy for Salmon. 



Bonneville Power Administration 



While we are encouraged by the progress to date, we also are concerned that 

 parts of the Strategy are being delayed or not implemented. The Council set an 

 ambitious schedule for all of the implementors. A number of measures are behind 

 schedule, and the Council intends to keep pressing for full implementation. Dividing 

 the program into the stages of the salmon life cycle, our understanding of Bonneville's 

 progress on implementation is as follows: 



Mainstem survival 



• Bonneville stored 6.45 million acre feet of Columbia River water for spring 

 salmon flows in 1992 and did so again this year. 



• Bonneville is completing funding of an interstate cooperative effort to identify 

 new sources of water to augment spring and summer flows, but final approval of 

 a contract to assist this effort is behind schedule by nearly one year. 



Production 



The Council's production measures emphasize revising hatchery practices to 

 protect wild salmon populations and research into the ability to use artificial 

 production to rebuild wild and naturally spawning populations to harvestable 

 quantities. 



• Bonneville is funding the development of standard regional hatchery practices 

 and genetics guidelines to better protect wild salmon from competition and 

 interbreeding with non-native stocks. 



• Bonneville is funding the marking of hatchery salmon from the Snake River 

 hatcheries to improve identification of hatchery-produced fish when they are 

 harvested and for use in passage survival tests and other research. We would 

 like to see this program expanded to other hatcheries in the Columbia Basin. 



• Bonneville has not initiated response to the Council's measures to identify the 

 status and trend of naturally spawning populations or to develop management 

 policies to protect wild stocks. These measures require the cooperation of state 

 and tribal fishery managers. 





