Small-Scale Spring Chinook and Coho ReintroductionCX(s) Applied: B1.20Date: 07/21/2011Location(s): Cle Elum, WashingtonOffice(s): Bonneville Power Administration
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
July 21, 2011
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CX(s) Applied: B1.20
Date: 07/21/2011
Location(s): Cle Elum, Washington
Office(s): Bonneville Power Administration
Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) proposes to allow the use of excess Cle Elum Hatchery supplementation line (S-line) spring Chinook adults and coho adults in a reintroduction program in habitat above Cle Elum Dam. BPA currently funds the propagation of these spring Chinook and coho salmon. BPA?s Yakima Fisheries Project Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) (DOE/EIS-0169, January 1996) anticipated that excess returning hatchery adults would be culled and landfilled or used as fertilizer. Instead, the returning adult hatchery-origin spring Chinook and coho salmon would be collected from the Roza Adult Trap facility.