Fish Passage Center Oversight Board

Upcoming Meetings

• November 17, 2008, 1-4pm
  Room 5A-B (on 7th Floor), Coeur d’ Alene Resort
  Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho

Background

The Council established the Fish Passage Center Oversight Board (Board) as part of its 2000 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program, as supplemented by the Council’s 2003 Mainstem Amendments to that program, to oversee the operations of the Fish Passage Center (Center). The general purpose of the Board is to provide policy guidance for the Center and to ensure that the Center carries out its functions in a way that ensures regional accountability and compatibility with the regional data management system. The Board derives all its authority from the Program and the Program provides that the Board will have representation from NOAA Fisheries, state fish and wildlife agencies, tribes, the Council, and others. Based on that provision, the Council established the initial membership of the Board from the following categories:

• one Council member or Council representative
• one member representing NOAA Fisheries
• one member representing the upper Columbia River Basin tribes
• one member representing the lower Columbia River Basin tribes
• one member representing the state fish and wildlife managers
• one member from the scientific community
• two members from the public at large.