Lower Columbia River Terminal Fisheries Research Project : Final Environmental Assessment.

• Main Author: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
• Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: United States. Bonneville Power Administration. 1995
• Subjects: Research Programs; Hydroelectric Power Plants; Columbia River; Bonneville Power Administration; Fisheries; 13 Hydro Energy; Biological Effects; Grays Bay
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/88583; http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc794031/

This notice announces BPA`S`s decision to fund the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), and the Clatsop Economic Development Committee for the Lower Columbia River Terminal Fisheries Research Project (Project). The Project will continue the testing of various species/stocks, rearing regimes, and harvest options for terminal fisheries, as a means to increase lower river sport and commercial harvest of hatchery fish, while providing both greater protection of weaker wild stocks and increasing the return of upriver salmon runs to potential Zone 6 Treaty fisheries. The Project involves relocating hatchery smolts to new, additional pen locations in three bays/sloughs in the lower Columbia River along both the Oregon and Washington sides. The sites are Blind Slough and Tongue Point in Clatsop County, Oregon, and Grays Bay/Deep River, Wahkiakum County, Washington. The smolts will be acclimated for various lengths of time in the net pens and released from these sites. The Project will expand upon an existing terminal fisheries project in Youngs Bay, Oregon. The Project may be expanded to other sites in the future, depending on the results of this initial expansion. BPA`S has determined the project is not a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment, within the meaning of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969. Therefore, the preparation of an environmental impact statement is not required, and BPA`S is issuing this FONSI.