2008 FCRPS BiOp Progress Report
The strategy of aiding threatened and endangered fish at each step of their lives is helping return more salmon to recently restored rivers and streams.
Rising numbers of Columbia River salmon and steelhead benefited from safer passage through dams, lower predation, more than 260 miles of reopened stream habitat and other measures charted in the action agencies' 2008 FCRPS Progress Report. The report describes the first year of work under the 2008 FCRPS Biological Opinion, which specifies how agencies will protect fish from the impacts of hydroelectric dams.
Accomplishments include nearly 11,000 acres of newly protected and replanted habitat and more than 15,000 acre-feet of newly secured river and stream flows.
Slide show overview
2008 FCRPS Progress Report: Summary. Includes pictures and graphics. (32 pages)
RPA Summary: Lists the 73 Reasonable and Prudent Actions in the BiOp and summarizes accomplishments for each. (81 pages)
RPA Detail: A detailed description of actions under each of the RPAs. (95 pages)
Project Tables: A list of each of the habitat, hatchery, predation management, and reseach, monitoring and evaluation projects completed in 2008. (176 pages)