by
Mark Fritsch, the Council’s fish production coordinator. The cost of
implementing the restoration plan is $2.6 million.
The next steps approved by the Council include 2000 research to:
–estimate lamprey abundance before and after outplanting adults in
the
Umatilla River;
–determine reproductive success of adult outplants, and
–estimate adult lamprey abundance in the Columbia River at the John
Day
Dam.
The restoration plan describes the Pacific lamprey as an …