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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 29 / Tuesday, February 16, 2021 / Notices
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The Fishery Foundation of California is seeking to renew a permit that currently allows them to annually take juvenile SacR winter-run and CVS
Chinook salmon, juvenile CV steelhead, and juvenile SDPS green sturgeon in the Sacramento River, CA. Juvenile salmon and green sturgeon would be captured via beach seines and fyke nets, handled, and released. The purpose of this research is to evaluate salmon presence and habitat in flood plain areas. The data generated from this research would benefit listed fish by helping managers design, implement, and manage riparian habitat sites along the Sacramento River for the purpose of helping anadromous salmonids recover.
The researchers are not proposing to kill any of the fish being captured, but a small number of juveniles may be killed as an inadvertent result of these activities.

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West Fork Environmental is seeking to renew a previously held permit that in its new iteration would allow them to capture and handle juvenile UCR
Chinook salmon, LCR Chinook salmon, UWR Chinook salmon, SnkR spr/sum Chinook, SnkR fall Chinook, PS
Chinook salmon, LCR coho salmon, OC
coho salmon, UCR steelhead, SnkR
steelhead, MCR steelhead, LCR
steelhead, UWR steelhead, and PS
steelhead during the course of headwater stream surveys over wide parts of Oregon and Washington. The purpose of the research is to provide owners of industrial forest lands and state lands managers with accurate maps of where threatened and endangered salmonids are found. The work would benefit the salmon and steelhead by helping land managers plan and carry out their activities in ways that would have the smallest effect possible on the listed fish. The researchers would use backpack electrofishing equipment to capture the fish. After capture, the fish would be swiftly released without tagging or even handling more than is necessary to ensure that they have recovered from the effects of being captured. The West Fork Environmental researchers do not intend to kill any listed salmonids, but a small number may die as an unintended result of the activities.
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The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission CRITFC is seeking a 5year permit to expand on and extend work previously conducted under other research permits Permits 1532 and
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The researchers wish to take juvenile MCR steelhead during the course of research designed to determine the fishes freshwater movements and examine how those movements are affected by the areas substantially altered hydrograph. They would also collect baseline information on stock status and yearly abundance and seek to determine whether repeat spawners from a kelt reconditioning program run by the Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakama Nation are successfully reproducing.
The fish would be captured via screw traps and backpack electrofishing equipment and then be anesthetized and measured. Some would be tissuesampled for DNA and aging purposes and some would receive PIT tags. The information gathered would be used to determine the fishes movements and abundance and monitor the ongoing status of the various MCR steelhead populations in the Yakima River subbasin. The research would benefit the fish by helping managers determine the effectiveness of current recovery measures and design new ones where needed. The researchers do not plan to kill any of the fish being captured, but a few may die as an unintentional result of the research.
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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking to renew a permit that allows it to take adult LCR
Chinook salmon, LCR steelhead, LCR
coho salmon, and CR chum salmon while operating a fish collection facility on the North Fork Toutle River in Washington State. The fish collection facility is located at river mile 47.5, approximately 1.3 miles about 2.1 km downstream from the Mount St. Helens Sediment Retention Structure. The purpose of the project is to trap and haul salmon and steelhead around the sediment retention structure. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife would also collect scientific information and tag a portion of the fish to monitor migration patterns and spawning success. The activities primary benefit would be to allow listed salmon and steelhead to spawn in historically accessible habitat upstream of the sediment retention structure.
Also, researchers would collect information that would increase our understanding of the various species spawning habits. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife proposes to operate the trap several days a week during the species upstream
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migration. Captured fish would be transported in a tanker truck and released upstream of the sediment retention structure. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife does not intend to kill any fish being captured but some may die as an unintentional result of the activities.
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The Mendocino Redwood Company MRC is seeking to renew a permit that currently allows them to annually take adult and juvenile CCC Chinook, CCC
steelhead, SONCC coho, and CCC coho salmon in Mendocino and Northern Sonoma Counties on Mendocino Redwood Company lands. Adult fish would be observed and tissue samples would be collected from carcasses found during spawning surveys. Juvenile salmon would be observed via snorkel surveys and captured via backpack electrofishing and screw traps, anesthetized, weighed, measured, and released. A small subset of juvenile fish would be captured, marked dye, elastomer, or fin clip, PIT-tagged, tissue sampled, and released. The purpose of the research is to assess juvenile and adult distribution and population structure in streams on MRCs property.
The data gathered in these studies would benefit listed fish by helping MRC better understand salmonid distribution, abundance, and habitat use in these areasand thereby design and carry out their management activities in the most fish-friendly way possible. The researchers are not proposing to kill any of the fish being captured, but a small number of juveniles may be killed as an inadvertent result of these activities.
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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ODFW is seeking to renew permit that allows it to take juvenile UWR Chinook salmon, UWR steelhead, LCR Chinook salmon, LCR steelhead, LCR coho salmon, and CR chum salmon while conducting research on the Oregon chub. The purpose of the research is to study the distribution, abundance, and factors limiting the recovery of Oregon chub. The Oregon chub is endemic to the Willamette Valley of Oregon and the habitats it depends on are important to salmonids.
Research on the Oregon chub would benefit listed salmonids by helping managers recover habitats that the species share. The ODFW researchers would use boat electrofishing equipment, minnow traps, beach seines, dip nets, hoop nets, and fyke nets to capture juvenile fish. Once the fish are captured, they would swiftly be counted, allowed to recover, and then
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