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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 29 / Tuesday, February 16, 2021 / Notices conditions at a localized area. Listed salmonids could be unintentionally captured during sampling activities. The study results would support an ongoing Natural Resource Damage Assessment, the purpose of which is to document and quantify injuries to natural resources resulting from exposure to hazardous substances. The proposed research study would benefit listed species by improving managers understanding of the extent of contamination in the studied habitats and informing habitat restoration activities.
The researchers propose to collect fish between river miles 2 and 11 of the Willamette River, and at appropriate reference sites nearby in the Lower Willamette River. The researchers would conduct sampling from August through October. The researchers would use vinyl-coated wire shrimp traps with 1.0 cm x 0.5 cm openings and baited with canned meat and bait scent. Any listed salmonids that are unintentionally captured would be transferred to buckets of aerated water, identified, counted, checked for fin clips, passive integrated transponder, and coded wire tags, and then swiftly released near the site of capture.

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The NWFSC is seeking to renew a permit that allows them to annually take juvenile PS/GB bocaccio rockfish and yelloweye rockfish, juvenile PS
steelhead, and juvenile and adult PS
Chinook salmon and SDPS eulachon in several river estuaries and bays of South Puget Sound, Washington. Fish would be captured via beach seine or otter trawl, handled identified, measured, checked for marks or tags, and released.
The goal of this research is to sample juvenile English sole and juvenile starry flounder and use the study results to support an ongoing Natural Resource Damage Assessmentthe purpose of which is to document and quantify injuries to natural resources resulting from exposure to hazardous substances.
The proposed research study would benefit listed species by improving managers understanding of the extent of contamination in the studied habitats and helping inform habitat restoration activities.
The researchers are not targeting any ESA-listed fish for capture as part of this research, but juveniles and adults may be unintentionally captured. The work would benefit listed species by helping guide habitat restoration activities in the Puget Sound. The researchers are also not proposing to kill any ESA-listed fish, but a small number may be killed
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as an inadvertent result of these activities.
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Mount Hood Environmental is seeking to modify a 5-year permit that currently allows them to annually take juvenile MCR steelhead from a nonessential experimental population NEP
in the Crooked River Deschutes River watershed in central Oregon. They are seeking to modify the permit by slightly increasing the take they are allotted, and the reason for this request is that new information has come to light indicating that there may be more steelhead present in the action area than previously believed. The researchers would use backpack electrofishing units and screw traps to capture the fish, which would then be measured, weighed, checked for marks and tags, allowed to recover, and released back to the river. A subsample of the captured fish may also be tissue-sampled for genetic assays. The purpose of the research is to establish baseline population information presence, abundance, density, etc. on MCR
steelhead and native redband trout in the vicinity of Bowman Dam, on the Crooked River.
As noted above, the MCR steelhead that currently occupy the action area are technically part of an NEP. Taking members of this population for scientific purposes is permitted by regulation at 50 CFR 223.301 but, for the sake of analysis, they are considered part of the listed MCR steelhead DPS.
The reason for that is that the NEP will expire on January 15, 2025at which point the population will simply be considered part of the MCR steelhead DPS although it should be noted the NEP abundance is not currently counted along with the rest of the DPS. The proposed work would benefit the species by helping managers maintain and operate Bowman Dam and a possible new hydroelectric turbine proposed for construction there in the most fish-friendly manner possible. The researchers do not intend to kill any of the fish being captured, but a small number may die as an unintended result of the activities Permit 24151
The U.S. Forest Service is seeking a 5year permit that would allow them to take juvenile OC coho salmon during the course of research intended to help managers understand how juvenile coho salmon continue to thrive in a coastal lake currently containing resident populations of trophy predatory fishes Tahkenitch Lake, Oregon. The researchers would use beach seines,
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minnow traps, and backpack electrofishing to capture fish in the tributaries to the lake and boat seines, beach seines, and hook-and-line fishing with barbless hooks in the lake and along the lake margins. The purpose of the research is to document coho salmon habitat shifts seasonal and otherwise and determine when and where predation by bass is occurring.
The captured fish would be sedated and then weighed and measured. The fish would then be allowed to recover and be released back to the sites of their capture. The proposed work would benefit the species by helping managers better understand species interaction in critical coastal lake habitat and thereby help them take measures to promote coho salmon recovery. The researchers do not intend to kill any of the fish being captured, but a small number may die as an inadvertent result of the proposed activities.
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Fish Restoration Program, is seeking a new 5-year permit that would allow them to annually take juvenile and adult SacR winter-run and CVS Chinook salmon, CCV steelhead, and SDPS green sturgeon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta including Suisun Marsh and Grizzly Bay. Adult fish would be captured via otter trawl, lampara seine, handled, and released.
Juvenile fish could be captured via beach seine, otter trawl, lampara seine, zooplankton net, backpack electrofishing handled, and released.
The purpose of this research is to monitor food web dynamics and fish populations before and after restoration and among reference, restored, and prerestoration sites. This data would be used to assess the effectiveness of habitat restoration with regard to native fish populations and would therefore benefit listed fish by helping improve such restoration activities. 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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NMFSs Northwest Fisheries Science Center is seeking a permit that would allow them to annually take juvenile PS
Chinook salmon, PS steelhead, and HC
summer-run chum salmon in nearshore areas of the San Juan Islands, Whidbey Island, and in the Central and Southern Puget Sound, Washington. Fish would be captured by lampara seines, handled weighed, measured, and checked for marks or tags, and released. A subset of juvenile PS Chinook salmon and HC

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