Help Using the Forms

You can filter the list of populations down the left side by selecting either Species, or Province, or Province and Subbasin. When you select a Province, the Subbasin drop-down box is populated, so you cannot select a subbasin directly - you will need to select a Province first.

The populations are displayed in different colors based upon their current status:

• Red indicates that the population has been marked for deletion. You can still interact with the population, and un-delete it if you wish.
• Green indicates that the population information has been edited. It does not indicate that the revision is complete - just that someone has made some change.
• Blue indicates that the population has not been deleted or revised.

The edit form is the default location for this web application. When you login, you will be taken directly to the edit form so that you can select a population and start editing it. You can also Add Populations using a link at the top of the page. If you are a group leader, you can add contacts who will have edit permissions for the form. The people you add will always be connected to you, and only you and the AFAC Coordinator will be able to edit their contact data. The contact data is used to track revisions, and every revision, edit and deletion is tagged with the ContactID of the logged in user who made it, the date, and the user's IP address.

The forms are made up of 5 main sections:

1. Limiting Factors
2. Biological Objectives
3. Population Descriptions
4. History of Revisions Box
5. Map

Section 1: Limiting Factors:

You can add various combinations of limiting factors and threats, rank the priority (high, medium, low), and comment about that particular combination. As you add combinations, you create a running list. You can edit or delete the combinations in your list. If you choose to delete a combination, it is retained and displayed in the History of Revisions box at the bottom of the page. Click the "View LF Revision History" link in the table headers bar, and the revision history will be displayed below (scroll down to see it). All combinations are displayed in the History of Revisions box. The darker ones represent current combinations, and the white ones represent combinations which have been deleted.

If you click the "edit" link beside an existing limiting factor record, the form fields above will be populated with that limiting factor information, and the button will change to "Update." Make your changes to that record, click update, and the field's data will change. The field you are editing will be displayed in a darker color so that you can find it easily.

Section 2: Biological Objectives

The biological objectives section contains the following fields:

• BO Number
  This must be an integer. Do not use any letters or special symbols (commas, semicolons, etc.). Enter the numeric value of the biological objective.
• BO Type
  This should indicate what the number represents - adult fish, jacks, redds, harvest, etc.
• BO Type Details
  If additional details are needed about the BO, enter them here. This might be the desired fish length, fish returns at a particular dam or hatchery, etc.
• Spatial Resolution
  This Biological Objective applies to what spatial scale? Population? Subbasin? The population spatial scale is strongly preferred, as that will allow more effective analysis across populations.
• BO Achieved by Date
  By when should this Biological Objective be achieved? 2010? 2020?
• Comments
  Enter any additional comments about this biological objective.

You can enter multiple biological objectives for each population. For instance, you might want to add adult fish returns, and redd counts.

As you add biological objectives, you create a running list. You can edit or delete the biological objectives in your list. If you choose to delete a biological objective, it is retained and displayed in the History of Revisions box at the bottom of the page. Click the "View BO Revision History" link in the table headers bar, and the revision history will be displayed below (scroll down to see it). All biological objectives are displayed in the History of Revisions box. The darker ones represent current biological objectives, and the white ones represent biological objectives which have been deleted.

If you click the "edit" link beside an existing biological objective record, the form fields above will be populated with that biological objective information, and the button will change to "Update." Make your changes to that record, click update, and the field's data will change. The field you are editing will be displayed in a darker color so that you can find it easily.

Section 3: Edit the Population Description Fields and Provide Comments Regarding the Geographic Boundary

The populations were developed by CRITFC GIS Staff. You can make revisions to their original population information, and comment upon their current geographic boundaries.

Section 4: History of Revisions

The The History of Revisions box is populated by clicking on any of the "Review Revision History" links on the page. If your most recent data does not display in the box, place your cursor anywhere inside the box, right click, and select "refresh."

Section 5: Map

Below the History of Revisions box is a rough map of the geographic boundary of the current population. The geographic boundaries and population description fields were generated by CRITFC staff, who will be working with CBFWA and the AFAC Fish Population Review Group to revise and update this information. If you disagree with the population boundaries, please add comments to that effect in the "Population Boundary Comments" box in Section 3.

Provisos

Pacific Lamprey

Pacific Lamprey do not exist in the CRITFC Fish Population database. A Pacific Lamprey population has been added to every subbasin in which another anadromous population exists. A name was generated to describe these populations based on the subbasin name. The population name is in brackets to indicate that this is a placeholder. Subbasins in which there are no Pacific Lamprey populations should have the population deleted. If multiple populations exist in a single subbasin, then additional Lamprey populations will need to be added. No maps exist for Pacific Lamprey. If a population boundary of another species in that subbasin matches the Pacific Lamprey population geographic boundary, please make a note of that in the Geographic Boundary Comments box, including the name of the species.

Definitions and Categories

Biological Objectivies

Describes physical and biological changes needed to achieve the vision. Objectives have two components: (1) biological performance, describing responses of focal species, and (2) environmental characteristics, which describe conditions needed to achieve biological performance. Biological objectives are intended to be measurable. Should have a temporable component. Should have basis in losses or former condition, not on expected outcome of suite of action.

Strategies

Strategies are sets of actions to achieve biological objectives. Strategies include specific measures to be implemented, and are guidance for development of projects. Strategies should propose priorities and sequencing.

Limiting Factors

Environmental (chemical, physical or biological) condition (i.e., dissolved oxygen, nutrients, water temperature, sediment, stream morphology, predation, etc.) that limits the ability of one or more species to effectively carry out one or more life history functions (i.e., spawning, rearing, migration, etc.).

Causative Factors (Threats)

Activity or condition that contributes to, or causes, one or more limiting factors (i.e., upland tree removal, ground tillage for agriculture, livestock overgrazing on riparian corridors, dams, impoundments that convert flowing stream habitat to ponded habitat, mining, direct human disturbance of animal behavior, exotic species introductions, etc.).

Limiting Factor Categories

The set of limiting factors is similar-to but different-from the set NOAA recommended in a 2005 Report to Congress. The set is identical to that developed by ODFW recovery planning staff.

1. Water quantity/hydrograph – Timing and magnitude of flow conditions.
2. Water quality – Water characteristics including temperature, dissolved oxygen, suspended sediment, pH, toxics, etc.
3. Predation – Consumption of naturally produced fish by one or more species (not to include fishery mortality).
4. Competition – Adverse interaction between naturally produced fish and hatchery fish or other species, both of which need some limited environmental factor (i.e. food or space).
5. Nutrients – This limiting factor is primarily directed toward the role of salmon carcasses.
6. Disease – Pathological condition in naturally produced fish resulting from infection.
7. Physical habitat quality/quantity – Quality or quantity of physical habitat. Examples include instream roughness, channel morphology, riparian conditions, fine sediment, etc.
8. Habitat access – Impaired access to spawning and/or rearing habitat. Examples include impassable culverts, delayed migration over dams, dewatered stream channels, etc. If, for example, a stream has been diked, thereby eliminating access to off-channel habitat, habitat access should be considered a problem. If off-channel habitat to which access has been eliminated is in impaired condition, it also considered an element of the physical habitat quality/quantity limiting factor.
9. Population traits – Impaired population condition(s) including: genetic, life history, morphological, productivity, fitness, behavioral characteristics, and population size. Although population traits are caused by other limiting factors, they may also and independently be a limiting factor.

Threat Categories

Six categories of threats are used to describe causes of limiting factors:

1. Current harvest practices – Direct and indirect mortality – associated with fisheries – on naturally produced fish.
2. Current hatchery practices – Negative impact of hatchery practices on naturally produced fish. Hatchery practices include: number of fish released, removal of adults for broodstock, breeding practices, rearing practices, release practices, water quality management, blockage of access to habitat, etc.
3. Current hydropower – Negative impact of current hydropower-system management on naturally produced fish.
4. Current landuse practices – Negative impact of current landuse activities on naturally produced fish. Landuse practices include timber harvest, agriculture, urbanization, transportation, mining, etc. If current practices are not adequate to address problems caused by past practices, consider them here as well as under the legacy threat.
5. Introduced species – Negative impact of non-native plants or animals on naturally produced fish. The impact of hatchery fish should be considered under the hatchery threat category.
6. Legacy issues – Negative impact of practices that no longer occur but that created conditions that currently exert negative impacts. Examples of legacy threats include: historic splash damming, fishery harvest management, and ocean/climate conditions.