At the Council’s July 1, 2009 request, the ISRP began a review of the Colville Confederated Tribes’ Twin Lakes Enhancement Proposal (#2008-111-00), a Columbia River Fish Accords project. The project’s purpose is to improve summer habitat for native inland redband trout in Twin Lakes, Washington by enhancing dissolved oxygen levels in bottom waters. After two revisions and a teleconference with the Tribes, the ISRP finds that the project meets scientific review criteria (qualified). The qualification is that trout growth, survival, and harvest monitoring needs to be better explained and summarized in future proposals. The ISRP appreciates the Tribes’ constructive approach to the review process. No further responses to the ISRP are needed for this review iteration.
