Warm Springs NFH Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Final Report and Associated Appendices

This report and its associated appendices analyze the sensitivity, exposure, impact, adaptive capacity, and vulnerability of Warm Spring  National Fish Hatchery and its spring Chinook broodstock broodstock
The reproductively mature adults in a population that breed (or spawn) and produce more individuals (offspring or progeny).

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program to the long-term trends in climate and increased likelihood of extreme weather events that could significantly affect USFWS programs and hatcheries in the Columbia-Pacific Northwest Region. 

 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is assessing the vulnerability of its National Fish Hatcheries (NFHs) in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in response to projected future climates. The Assessment Team has completed climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.

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vulnerability assessments (CCVAs) for Winthrop NFH (USFWS 2013), Quilcene NFH (USFWS 2016), Makah NFH (USFWS 2019) Warm Springs NFH (2021) and Entiat NFH (2021). These assessments are focused on NFH vulnerabilities at the hatchery and local watershed levels and are motivated by long-term trends in climate and the increased likelihood of extreme weather events that could significantly affect USFWS programs and hatcheries in the Columbia-Pacific Northwest Region. Other agencies are evaluating climate change vulnerabilities of anadromous salmonid fishes in the marine environment and freshwater migration corridors. 2 The report presented here represents the USFWS’s CCVA for Warm Springs NFH in central Oregon. 

Please cite as:



U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 2021. Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery, Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment, Final Report: August 2021. Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Team, Fish and Aquatic Conservation, Columbia-Pacific Northwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon. 43 pages + 6 Appendices.

Author(s)
A man in rainjacket and ballcap stands in a concrete tank, holding up in both hands a gorgeous steelhead in bright spawning colors.
Hatchery Manager (Retired)
National Fish Hatchery System,
Fish and Aquatic Conservation
Winthrop,WA
Dr. Don Campton
Kyle Hanson
Tim Mayer
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Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery
Since time immemorial the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon have derived their physical and emotional sustenance from the region's land, water, fish, game, berries, and roots. The Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery releases approximately 750,000 spring Chinook salmon (...
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Juvenile Northern Pike in aquarium at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery, South Dakota
The Fish and Aquatic Conservation program leads aquatic conservation efforts for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We are committed to tackling the nation’s highest priority aquatic conservation and recreational challenges to conserve, restore, and enhance fisheries for future generations.
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Climate change
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Fish hatcheries
Anadromous fish
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