Difference between revisions of "Trout Reduction Efforts"

• Rainbow Trout Page
• Brown Trout Page
• Natal Origins Project (NO)

• Bright Angel Creek Non-Native Trout Reduction Project (2002-present)
• Brown trout control at the mouth of Bright Angel Creek
• Mainstem trout removal at the LCR (2003-2006)
• Trout Management Flows

• Appendix A: Non-native Fish Control SDM Report
• Appendix B: Non-native Fish Control Science Plan
• Appendix C: Non-native Fish Control BA
• Appendix D: Non-native Fish Control BA Supplement
• Appendix E: Biological Opinion
• Appendix F: SHPO Letter

2017

• Is Rainbow Trout Control Necessary, and if so, What is the Most cost-effective approach?
• Bright Angel Creek Brown Trout Control 2016-17 Season Report

2016

• Bright Angel Creek Non-Native Trout Reduction, Grand Canyon National Park
• Bright Angel Creek Brown Trout Control 2015-16 Season Report

2015

• Bright Angel Creek Non-Native Trout Reduction Grand Canyon National Park

2013

• Humpback Chub and Non-native Fish Control Update
• Non-native Fish Control in Tributaries: Grand Canyon National Park
• Nonnative fish control in GCNP tributaries

2012

• Non-native fish Control Implementation PPT
• AIF Two Environmental Assessments Updates
• Non-Native Fish Control EA PPT
• Final Biological Opinion on the Operation of Glen Canyon Dam Including High Flow Experiments and Non-Native Fish Control Memo
• Executive Summaries from the High-Flow Experiment EA and the Non-Native Fish Control EA

2011

• Coggins et al. 2011. Nonnative Fish Control in the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona: An Effective Program or Serendipitous Timing? Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 140: 2, 456 — 470
• USGS Fact Sheet: An Experiment to Control Nonnative Fish in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, Arizona
• AIF: Report on Two Environmental Assessments (EAs): Protocol for High-Flow Experimental Releases EA and Non-native Fish Control EA and PPTs

2010

• Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) Bright Angel Creek Trout Reduction
• Environmental Assessment/Assessment of Effect 2006: Bright Angel Creek Trout Reduction Project

Tier 1 Trigger – Early Intervention Through Conservation Actions:

• 1a. If the combined point estimate for adult HBC (adults defined ≥200 mm) in the Colorado River mainstem LCR aggregation; RM 57-65.9) and Little Colorado River (LCR) falls below 9,000 as estimated by the currently accepted HBC population model (e.g., ASMR, multi-state).

-OR-

• 1b. If recruitment of sub-adult HBC (150-199mm) does not equal or exceed estimated adult mortality such that:

1. Sub-adult abundance falls below a three-year running average of 1,250 fish in the spring LCR population estimates, or
2. Sub-adult abundance falls below a three-year running average of 810 fish in the mainstem Juvenile Chub Monitoring reach (JCM annual fall population estimate; RM 63.45-65.2).

Tier 1 Trigger Response:

• Tier 1 conservation actions listed below will be immediately implemented either in the LCR or in the adjacent mainstem. Conservation actions will focus on increasing growth, survival and distribution of HBC in the LCR & LCR mainstem aggregation area.

Tier 2 Trigger - Reduce threat using mechanical removal if conservation actions in Tier 1 are insufficient to arrest a population decline:

Mechanical removal of nonnative aquatic predator will ensue:

• If the point abundance estimate of adult HBC decline to <7,000, as estimated by the currently accepted HBC population model.

Mechanical removal will terminate if:

• Predator index (described below) is depleted to less than 60 RBT/km for at least two years in the JCM reach and immigration rate is low (the long term feasibility of using immigration rates as a metric still needs to be assessed),

-OR-

• Adult HBC population estimates exceed 7,500 and recruitment of sub-adult chub exceed adult mortality for at least two years.

If immigration rate of predators into JCM reach is high, mechanical removal may need to continue. These triggers are intended to be adaptive based on ongoing and future research (e.g., Lees Ferry recruitment and emigration dynamics, effects of trout suppression flows, effects of Paria River turbidity inputs on predator survival and immigration rates, interactions between humpback chub and rainbow trout, other predation studies).