Willamette Fish Operations Plan (WFOP) Change Request Form

Willamette Fish Operations Plan (WFOP) Change Request Form

Change Form #1 & Title: 16MK007, WFOP McKenzie 2016

Date Submitted: 1/8/2016

Project: McKenzie Hatchery - Appendix C

Requester Name, Agency: Kelly Reis, Jeff Ziller/ ODFW

Final Action:

WFOP Section: C.4.1.1 McKenzie Fish Hatchery and C.4.1.2 Leaburg Fish Hatchery and C.4.1.3 Maintenance Schedule

Justification for Change: clarifications

Proposed Change:

C.4.1.1 McKenzie Fish Hatchery

The McKenzie Fish Hatchery is located on the McKenzie River near RM 37, about 17 miles east of Springfield, Oregon and is operated by ODFW (Figure C-1). The hatchery is the primary rearing facility for the McKenzie Hhatchery spring Chinook program. Incubation facilities consist of 38 full stacks of vertical tray incubators (640 trays). Dual water supplies are available from either the McKenzie River or Cogswell Creek, and can be isolated from each other. The two water supplies are used independently for incubation. A water chiller cools a limited amount of water for otolith marking.

C.4.1.2 Leaburg Fish Hatchery

The Leaburg Fish Hatchery, located on the McKenzie River, was built in 1953 by the USACE for trout mitigation for the Upper Willamette dams. The hatchery primarily raises rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, and summer steelhead;. The rainbow trout these fish are stocked not only in the McKenzie subbasin, but in the Santiam, Middle Fork Willamette, and Coast Fork Willamette subbasins as wellalso in other Willamette Valley subbasins. . In recent yearsthe past, the hatchery has had outbreaks of the hematopoietic necrosis virus, and there are on-going efforts to address these issues through multi-agency collaboration.

C.4.1.3 Maintenance Schedule

Maintenance of the hatcheries is primarily done on an as-needed basis. Such maintenance as repairing/upgrading/cleaning/painting incubation and rearing infrastructure, public access sites, safety areas, alarms, roads, lawns, housing, and vehicles are all done by hatchery personnel or contractors. An example of what the types of maintenance activities conducted can be found in Withalm and others (2011).

Comments:

Record of Final Action: Incorporated suggested edits.