DESCRIPTION
This project provided fish screen facility upgrades and new fish screen construction on Methow River Basin irrigation diversions (Foghorn, Rockview, McKinney Mountain, Kumn, Holloway). Screening projects provide tangible and significant improvements to juvenile fish survival with both immediate and long-term beneficial impacts. New fish screens comply with current state and federal biological protection criteria to reduced direct mortality and indirect mortality (caused by stress and injury) to both anadromous and resident salmonids including ESA-listed spring chinook and steelhead (Endangered) and bull trout (Threatened) in the Methow River basin. Funding (02-03)