Sponsor
This investigation was funded by Bonneville Power Administration.
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
7-15-1990
Subjects
Yakima Project (U.S.), Fishery management -- Washington (State), Salmon stock management -- Washington (State), Bonneville Power Administration
Physical Description
178 pages
Abstract
This report provides the administrative design to implement the Yakima/Klickitat Production Project. This project is a scientifically designed salmon fishery restoration project funded by the Bonneville Power Administration in compliance with the .fishery policies established by the Northwest Power Planning Council under the authority of the Northwest Power Planning Act.
This project breaks new ground in the field of fishery management. It is the first full scale application of supplementation technology directed toward maintaining and rebuilding native fish stocks and sub stocks with hatchery rearing methods. The work of the organization is an inherently more complex production function than traditional fish hatchery operations. This is in part because the project requires a high level of continuing quality control. It is also due in part because the fisheries management takes place over an extended geographical space of the watershed.
The pre-design work for this project has been underway since 1987 by an ad hoc planning group composed of representative of the Yakima Indian Nation, the Washington Department of Fisheries and the Washington Department of Wildlife, and private consultants under funding of the Bonneville Power Administration. The project experimental design has been developed by the Experimental Design Work Group. The Bonneville Power Administration is contracting for design and construction of the fish rearing facilities.
The research challenge was to design an organization to .implement the adaptive management concept of biological systems management. The management of complex biological systems such as salmon fish runs is character:ized by a high degree of uncertainty.
Management for uncertain outcomes requires an organizational process that will induce a continuing learning atmosphere. Over time, most bureaucratic organizations suffer from inertia and are not conducive to a learning environment. Research methods involved the review of literature and related administrative experience, an interview process, a modified Delphi questionnaire, a series of group dynamic exercises, and observation of the work teams during the last six months of the planing process.
The results of our research suggest that a new non-profit corporation be formed to implement the program under the direction of the three primary fish management basin agencies. The corporation should have flexibility and the organization will be phased in during the five year planning and construction cycle. A primary result of our research is the conclusion that the team management concept be the dominant organizational unit for both management of field operations and for management of scientific design and evaluation.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18215
Citation Details
Churchill, Jack; Shissler, Lee; Edner, Sheldon; and Smith, Randy, "Administrative Design for Yakima-Klickitat Production Project: Final Report" (1990). Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports. 121.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/18215
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Description
Catalog Number PR046.
A product of the Administrative Design Team, Center for Urban Studies, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University.