Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 635 - DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE › Division 500 - FISH MANAGEMENT PLANS › Section 635-500-6780 - Implementing the Coastal, Columbia, and Snake Conservation Plan for Lampreys in Oregon

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) Policy. The
			 Coastal, Columbia, and Snake Conservation Plan for Lampreys in Oregon (CPL;
			 State of Oregon 2019, available at the Department's Salem office or
www.dfw.state.or.us
) describes the
			 State's strategy for protecting and enhancing Oregon populations of Pacific
			 lamprey, Western river lamprey, Western brook lamprey, and Pacific brook
			 lamprey (herein, "lampreys") along the Oregon coast and within the Columbia and
			 Snake River basins of Oregon. The CPL identifies management strategies to
			 address factors limiting these lampreys, and research, monitoring, and
			 evaluation (RME) needed to fill data gaps and inform future status assessments
			 for them. These management strategies and RME are for ODFW to implement in
			 coordination with other entities and landowners. The CPL is based on the
			 premise that collaborations with partners will be essential to implementing
			 conservation actions identified in the CPL. This rule describes the
			 Commission's contribution toward this collective effort and directs the
			 Department's implementation of the CPL. This rule describes the Department's
			 role in implementing the CPL consistent with the Department's statutory
			 authorities and the Native Fish Conservation Policy (OAR
			 635-007-0502 through
			 635-007-0505). This rule is not
			 intended to be a rigid recipe, but rather to identify the range of
			 opportunities the Department should pursue and how the effectiveness of those
			 opportunities should be evaluated, following the template first established in
			 the Native Fish Conservation Policy.
(2) Description of Species Management Units
			 (SMUs) and population strata. The SMU for each of the lampreys addressed in the
			 CPL is the state of Oregon. Each of these SMUs is comprised of up to seven
			 population strata (listed in Table 2.3 of the CPL).
(3) Desired Status.
(a) The desired status for Pacific lamprey is
			 to maintain and improve the current status of all population strata such that
			 they can provide greater ecological, economic, and cultural benefits than are
			 currently provided. The specific desired statuses for the population strata and
			 SMUs are listed in Table 4.1 of the CPL. These statuses can be achieved by
			 conducting management strategies and actions that improve the outcomes for
			 existing measurable criteria described in Tables 3.1 and 3.6 of the CPL, and
			 gathering additional information related to all measurable criteria described
			 in Table 3.1 of the CPL;
(b) The
			 immediate desired status for Western river lamprey, Western brook lamprey, and
			 Pacific brook lamprey is to improve the available information so that their
			 current population strata statuses can be assessed in the future. This can be
			 achieved by gathering additional information related to measurable criteria
			 described in Table 3.1 of the CPL. Once current statuses for population strata
			 are better understood, it can be determined whether the long-term desired
			 status for these species of providing ecological, economic, and cultural
			 benefits is being met.