[ODFW-News] Commission approves restoration and enhancement projects

[ODFW News]

For Immediate Release Thursday, April 20, 2006
 
Commission approves restoration and enhancement projects
 
SALEM - The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission recently approved more
than $875,000 in grants from the Fish Restoration and Enhancement
program for 16 projects benefiting fish and angling throughout Oregon. 
 
Created by the Oregon Legislature in 1989, the R & E program funds
projects that restore or enhance fisheries and habitat, educate the
public, support fish stocking or research efforts to improve or sustain
fisheries. Its seven-member citizen board reviews project proposals and
makes funding recommendations to the state Fish and Wildlife Commission.
The program is funded from a surcharge on sport and commercial fishing
licenses and commercial poundage fee. 
 
The approved grants represented the fourth of eight grant cycles in the
2005-2007 biennium. 
 
The largest grant approved, $500,000, is dedicated to the Diamond Lake
restoration project. The lake will be drawn down and treated in
September to remove an estimated 98 million unwanted tui chub. Once
completed, officials will restore the popular recreational fishery
there. 
 
Other approved projects include:
* $22,422 to research redband trout movement in the Crooked River basin;
* $4,320 to support supplemental bass stocking in Prineville Reservoir;
* $5,551 for the Ana River improvement project;
* $4,500 for a Eugene education project that will create portable stream
simulator tables;
* $34,973 for management and monitoring of nearshore marine fisheries;
* $7,900 for an education project to create "know what you catch" cards;
* $4,683 for construction of an ADA fishing platform at Adair Pond;
* $33,429 for a public restroom facility at the Pleasant Valley boat
launch on the South Santiam River near Sweet Home;
* $55,911 for Siuslaw River chinook spawning escapement monitoring near
Florence;
* $97,134 for hatchery improvements at Cedar Creek Hatchery near
Tillamook;
* $2,000 for incubation water chiller units at the Alsea Hatchery;
* $50,000 for fish passage improvements at the Paisley Weir, to remove a
barrier on the Chewaucan River, opening 50 miles of fish access;
* $45,000 for design of a fish ladder at Opal Springs near Redmond;
* $2,600 toward a culvert replacement project at Mill Creek near Port
Orford; and, 
* $1,000 to help replace a culvert near the Elk River.
 
For more information about the Fish Restoration and Enhancement program,
contact the program coordinator at 503-947-6259 or visit ODFW's Web
site, 
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/RE/
 
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission is the policy-making body for
fish and wildlife issues in the state. The seven-member panel meets
monthly. The next regular OFWC meeting is May 11-12 in Burns.
 
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