216 



Year Corps funding BPA funding 



1990 $479,030 



1991 828,100 



1992 780,018 $294,000 



1993 334,961 304,420 



TOTAL: $2,422,109 $598,420 



According to the BPA's FOIA disclosure dated December 3. 1993. Dr. Bjornn 

 performed research under US. Fish and Wildlife Service contracts to study 

 predation of juvenile salmon in mainstem reservoirs from the following 

 dates in the following amounts funded by BPA: 



Contract Date BPA funding 



July. 1988 $255,032 



June, 1989 231,047 



July, 1990 141,646 



March. 1991 253,898 



January. 1992 119.483 



February, 1992 569,606 



February, 1993 129.704 



March, 1993 938,743 



May. 1993 125,521 



TOTAL: $2,764,680 



The grand total by 1993 of these two contracts on-going during Dr. Bjornn's 

 tenure on the NMFS Recovery Team was $5,785,209. 



According to the FOIA responses, these are just two of several 

 contracts over the years by which the Corps and BPA funded research by Dr. 

 Bjornn and his Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University 

 of Idaho. Therefore, is it reasonable to believe that, during his service on 

 the Recovery Team, Dr. Bjornn, albeit a tenured professor, did not give a 



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