Agenda -- 2010 Annual Northwest Fish Culture Conference

61^st Annual Northwest Fish Culture Conference
December 7 - 9, 2010

Northwest Hatcheries, Focusing on the Future
December 7-9, 2010 at the Hilton Hotel, downtown, Portland, Oregon

2010 NWFCC Agenda

Tuesday, December 7
Time	Activity	Person	Title
1:00pm	Welcome	Rich Turner/Tom Flagg	Opening Statements And Administrivia
1:10	Opening Comments	Bob Turner NOAA Fisheries Service Assistant Regional Administrator Salmon Management Division	Hatcheries And The Future
1:30	Session #1 - Hatchery Consultation Process	Rich Turner NOAA Fisheries Service, NW Region, Salmon Management Division
1:30		Robert Bayley NOAA Fisheries Service	The Process of Production: Regulatory Analysis of Hatchery Programs
1:50		Allyson Purcell NOAA Fisheries Service	NEPA and Hatchery Consultations
2:10		Mark Chilcote NOAA Fisheries Service	Hatchery Monitoring - What and Why?
2:30		Rob Jones NOAA Fisheries Service	Harmonizing the ESA and Treaty-Trust Responsibilities
2:50	*Break*
3:05	*Door Prize Drawings*
3:15	Session #2 - Hatchery/ Wild Interactions	Chris Tatara NOAA Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
3:15		Chris Tatara NOAA Fisheries Service	Mechanisms Affecting Competition Between Hatchery-reared and Wild Juvenile Anadromous Pacific Salmonids in Fresh Water
3:35		Steve Schroder Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife	The Reproductive Behavior And Breeding Success Of Hatchery and Wild Spring Chinook Salmon Spawning In An Artificial Stream
3:55		Barry Berejikian NOAA Fisheries Service	Development of Natural Growth Regimes For Hatchery-Reared Steelhead To Reduce Residualism, Fitness Loss, and Negative Ecological Interactions
4:15		Peter F. Galbreath Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission	Are Hatchery Effects Forever? - Use Of Hatchery Stocks to Reintroduce Extirpated Coho Salmon To The Mid And Upper Columbia Basin
4:35		Brian Allee NOAA Fisheries Service	Hatchery Reform: Reducing Risk Of Cumulative Impact Of Hatchery Origin Fish On Natural Origin Fish In The Columbia River Estuary While Increasing Hatchery Marine Survival
4:55		William Simpson U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service	Rearing Effects on the Seasonal Diet of Steelhead from an Integrated Hatchery Program
5:15		Andy Dittman NOAA Fisheries Service	Spatial And Temporal Overlap Of Hatchery And Wild Spring Chinook Salmon Spawning: Effects Of Hatchery Acclimation Sites
5:35	Adjourn
6:00-9:00	Poster Session/Evening Social	Brian Allee, NOAA Fisheries Service, NW Region, Salmon Management Division

Wednesday, December 8
Time	Activity	Person	Title
8:00am	Morning Welcome	Rich Turner & Tom Flagg	Administrivia & Door Prize Drawings
8:10	Session #3 - Hatchery Reform Implementation	Tom Flagg NOAA Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
8:10		Lee Blankenship Northwest Marine Technology	Hatchery Reform: An Update on Implementation
8:30		Don Campton U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service	Integrated vs, Segregated & Stepping Stone Hatchery Broodstock Management
8:50		James Dixon Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife	WDFW Hatchery Reform Implementation Process
9:10		Becky Johnson Nez Perce Tribe Sam Sharr Idaho Department of Fish and Game	Snake Basin Hatchery And Harvest Management Coordination: A Tool For Building Consensus
9:30		Bill Sharp Yakama Nation	Klickitat Subbasin: Pathway To Hatchery Reform
9:50		Geoffrey Whistler Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife	Can Intensive Harvest Of Hatchery-Produced Salmon Co-Exist With Efforts To Recover Naturally-Produced Stocks In The Columbia River Basin?
10:10	*Break*
10:25	*Door Prize Drawings*
10:30		Carl East Nez Perce Tribe	A Small Scale Chinook Salmon Supplementation Project In Johnson Creek, Idaho
10:50		Aaron Penney Nez Perce Tribe	Nez Perce Tribal Hatchery Complex: Utilizing Supplementation And Adaptive Management To Increase Salmon Recovery In And Around The Nez Perce Indian Reservation.
11:10		Brian Allee NOAA Fisheries Service	Mitchell Act Hatchery Economic Contribution
11:25	Session #4 – Sustainable Fish Culture	Brian Allee NOAA Fisheries Service, NW Region, Salmon Management Division
11:25		Dan Magneson U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service	Quilcene National Fish Hatchery: The First 100 Years
11:45		Mike Gass Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC	Urban Fisheries –Improving Angler Experience And Increasing Participation
12:05pm	Lunch
1:05	*Door Prize Drawings*
1:15		Steve Sharon Wyoming Game & Fish Department	Maximizing Serial Use Production Of Wyoming Game & Fish Department’s Speas Rearing Station
1:35		Beth Lenentine Department of Fisheries & Oceans	Overview of Department of Fisheries & Oceans' East Coast Biodiversity Facilities Programs
1:55		Mike McGowan HDR KC Hosler PR Aqua	Anchorage (William J Hernandez) Sport Fish Hatchery Project Update
2:15		Jim Powell Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC	Spawning Challenges And Practical Solutions At The FFSBC
2:35		Dave Knutzen Northwest Marine Technology	Using Technologies to Manage Adult Return and Inventory
2:55		Mary Edwards Nez Perce Tribe	Underwater Photography Of Salmon
3:15	*Hall Of Fame*
3:35	Break	Break presentation by John Halver, one of the founders of the NWFCC in 1950	What Fish Oil Can Do For You
3:50	*Door Prize Drawings*
4:00	Session #5 – Water Reuse Systems	Brian Vinci The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute
4:00		Joe Miller Chelan County Public Utility District	Application Of Water Reuse Technology For Hatchery Production Of Upper Columbia River Summer Chinook And Steelhead.
4:20		Deborah Harstad Northwest Fisheries Science Center	Comparing The Growth, Smolt Development, And Early Male Maturation Rates Of Juvenile Summer Chinook Salmon Raised In Either Partial Water Reuse Or Flow-Through Raceway Environments.
4:40		Chris Good The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute	Comparing The Performance, Health, And Welfare Of Juvenile Summer Chinook Salmon Raised In Either Partial Water Reuse Or Flow-Through Raceway Environments.
5:10		Marc Babiar Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife	Using A Partial Reuse Aquaculture System For Rearing Wenatchee Steelhead.
5:30	Adjourn
6:00	EXCOM

Thursday, December 9
Time	Activity	Person	Title
7:55am	Administrivia/Door Prize Drawings	Rich Turner & Tom Flagg
8:00		Jim Bowker AFS Fish Culture Section	AFS Fish Culture Section Information
8:15	Session #6 - Physiology & Health	Don Larsen NOAA Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
8:15		Matthew Stinson Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife	Distribution Of Ceratomyxa shasta Genotypes In The Pacific Northwest
8:35		Kenneth Lujan U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service	Ecological Interactions Of Wild And Hatchery Fish: Health & Disease Implications In Eagle Creek, Oregon
8:55		Don Larsen NOAA Fisheries Service	Warning! That BIG Smolt May Be A Tiny Adult: Prevalence, Causes, And Consequences Of Chinook Salmon Minijacks
9:15		Brian Beckman NOAA Fisheries Service	Environmental Affects On Early Male Maturation And Smolt Quality In Spring Chinook Salmon
9:35		John Kerwin Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife	Emerging New Genetic Variants Of Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus In Rivers And Lakes Of The Olympic Peninsula, Washington
9:55	Session #7 - New Technologies	Carlin McAuley NOAA Fisheries Service, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
9:55		Chris Wichman ICS Healey-Ruff	Higher Yields And Lower Costs: Advantages Of Integrated Hatcher-Wide Control Solutions
10:15		Larona Newhouse Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife	From Old To New-The Rebuild Of The Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery
10:35	*Break*
10:50	*Door Prize Drawings*
10:55		Mike Rust NOAA Fisheries Service	NOAA/USDA Feeds Initiative Report
11:15		Henry Balensifer WarHF, Inc	A STEP Ahead: From Fish in Buckets to Advanced Sustainable Concepts
11:35		John Hitron U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service	Electroanesthesia: The GREEN Alternative To Drugs And Clubs
11:55		Carlin McAuley NOAA Fisheries Service Marla Chaney Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife	Peeking at Gonads: The Use of Ultrasound Technology in the Threatened Snake River Chinook Salmon Capture Broodstock Program
12:15pm	*Scholarship Drawing*
12:25	Announcement of Next Year’s Conference		Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC
12:30	Adjourn
1:15	Post-conference Tour

Tuesday Evening Poster Session Brian Allee, NOAA Fisheries Service, NW Region, Salmon Management Division
Presenter(s)	Title
Steve Roberts Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife	Build It and They Will Come … Innovative Traps for Collecting Spawners
Mary Edwards Nez Perce Tribe	Use of Membrane Filtration Florescent Antibody Test (MF-FAT) to Identify Renibacterium salmoninarum within Eggs of Sexually Mature Female Chinook Salmon: An Attempt to Establish Correlative Relationships between Detection of Bacteria in the Eggs, Ovarian Fluid, and ELISA Levels in the Kidney
Marla Chaney Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife	Home Depot-built misting incubation system
Greg Wolfe Nez Perce Tribe	Nez Perce Tribe Lostine River Spring Chinook Production
Yongwen Gao Makah Fisheries Management	Geoduck (Panopea abrupta) aquaculture in the Neah Bay beaches, Washington
Larry Ward Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe	Use of Native-Origin Brood for Winter Steelhead Restoration in the Elwha River Watershed
Trevor Conder U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service	Distribution and Survival of Adult Spring Chinook Salmon Radio-Tagged and Released Upstream of Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery, 2008-2010
Jerry McGehee Idaho Department of Fish and Game	The Lightning Rod Of The Clearwater Basin