FY 11 Port Gamble Tribe Salmon Recovery Planning

Salmonid Restoration Planning and Assessments

Project ID	11-PGAM-01
Recovery Domains	Puget Sound
Start Date	07/01/2012
End Date	02/01/2014
Year	2011
Status	Completed
Last Edited	01/14/2025

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Description

The Natural Resource Director represented the tribe in various local, regional and statewide salmon recovery and planning forums. The Director oversaw the implementation of the Puget Sound Chinook and Hood Canal Summer Chum Recovery Plans in collaboration with other tribes, WDFW, HCCC, NOAA and other agencies. The Director also worked closely with PGST policy and leadership to help inform relevant decision-making by the Port Gamble Tribal Council and community members as it pertained to salmon recovery issues. The project scope included the development of salmon recovery recommendations developed through various resource management processes. Involvement with watershed planning activities including coordinating habitat assessments and restoration project planning resulted in identifying and then preparing to address factors that may be constraining the recovery of healthy natural salmon production in the Tribes Usual and Accustomed (U&A) area.

Project Benefit

The project will provide the opportunity for the Port Gamble SKlallam Tribe to participate in the salmon recovery planning process and to coordinate with federal, state, and local recovery planning agencies. The recovery planning process will benefit form having the Tribes expertise and technical input. The over arching goal of this project is to recover Summer-run Chum Salmon and Puget Sound Chinook Salmon. The realization of this goal is expected to provide, on average, sufficient surplus abundance to allow for directed and incidental harvests of these species, this is expected to be achieved by reaching abundance and escapement recovery thresholds; a productivity recovery threshold; interim recovery goals’ criteria for abundance, spawning escapement and productivity; and diversity interim recovery goals.

Source

Funds

PCSRF

$112,042

Report Total:

$112,042

Worksites

33759984

Worksite Identifier: 33759984
Start Date:
End Date:

Area Description
Puget Sound

Location Information

Basin: Puget Sound (171100)
Subbasin: Hood Canal (17110018)
Watershed:
Subwatershed:

State: Washington
Recovery Domain: Puget Sound
Latitude: 47.852076
Longitude: -122.568139

ESU

Puget Sound Chinook Salmon ESU
Hood Canal Summer-run Chum Salmon ESU

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Metrics

B.0 Salmonid Restoration Planning and AssessmentsY (Y/N)

. . B.0.a Planning And Assessment Funding 112,042.00
. . B.0.b.1 Area Encompassed 2,734,659.1

. . B.1 Restoration Planning And CoordinationY (Y/N)

. . . . B.1.a Planning and Coordination funding 112,042.00

. . . . B.1.b.2 Coordination on implementation of a Recovery PlanY (Y/N)

. . . . . . B.1.b.2.a

Name of the Recovery Plan Implemented
WDFW, PNPTC. Mid Hood Canal Chinook Recovery Planning Chapter. May 2005. Brewer, S., J. Watson, D. Christensen, R. Brocksmith. 2005. Hood Canal and Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca Summer Chum Salmon Recovery Plan. Hood Canal Coordinating Council.

. . . . . . B.1.b.2.b

Description and scope of the Recovery Plan implemented

The Summer Chum Salmon Recovery Plan (the SRP) is ultimately intended to fulfill that ESA requirement and allow the appropriate Federal authorities to use the SRP in response to the ESA listing. Local and regional authorities within the Hood Canal and eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca watersheds desire to control and manage recovery in a manner that is compatible with their policies. They do not desire to form new processes or new organizations, but rather to provide an approach that takes advantage of existing processes, organization and political structures, and available data and information. Such an approach is intended to be responsive to the biological needs of the summer chum salmon in the context of local and regional political, economic, social, and legal realities. In this context the Summer Chum Salmon Recovery Plan will provide a logic and rationale for recovery of summer chum salmon populations that can be understood by County Commissioners, Tribal governments, local and regional decision-makers and the public. The biology of the summer chum salmon and inherent biological productivity of the salmon habitats will provide the basis for the action alternatives that are described. The action alternatives will be driven by political feasibility, opportunity, ability, and willingness. The design of this SRP fosters participation and input from the appropriate land use and Tribal authorities. Development of the SRP engaged these authorities at multiple levels and provides them with guidance and direction in developing salmon recovery policies and regulations. It is the intent of this SRP to be formally adopted by the three member Counties and the two member Tribes of the Hood Canal Coordinating Council. The Counties will then be able to use this SRP to assist them in addressing regulatory aspects of habitat protection. Potential regulatory avenues for action might include Growth Management, Critical Areas Ordinances, and Shoreline Master Programs. However, the intent of this SRP is not to recommend sweeping regulatory solutions. The intent of this SRP is to craft specific ‘packages’ of solutions that may or may not include regulatory components, depending on each specific local habitat situation, the availability of alternative courses of action, and the political and economic feasibility of a regulatory solution. Currently available technical work and information provides the basis for this SRP. On-going recovery actions and research will be incorporated as they become available within an adaptive management approach. Significant bodies of work have contributed to the development of this SRP, including the Summer Chum Salmon Conservation Initiative, Limiting Factors Assessments (WRIA’s 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18), and refugia studies prepared for Jefferson and Kitsap Counties. The SRP proposes means by which the work being pursued by WRIA planning units under RCW 90.82 (the “2514 process”) can be coordinated with the actions proposed for summer chum salmon recovery. Action recommendations are also coordinated with the HCCC’s Lead Entity Salmon Habitat Recovery Strategy. Mid Hood Canal Chinook planning has focused on habitat, hatchery and harvest strategies as the means to implement Chinook recovery. The Co-managers have appropriately led hatchery and harvest planning efforts because they have jurisdiction in these areas. In addition, the Co-managers and HCCC have prepared a habitat analysis using the Ecosystem Diagnosis and Treatment (EDT) method to evaluate priorities and potential benefits of habitat protection and restoration actions. This analysis is, in a sense, an extension of the HCCC’s efforts in developing a habitat recovery strategy (HCCC 2004), a strategy that has involved the counties, non-governmental organizations and others. The habitat analysis presented here is intended to assist and extend the previous habitat restoration planning efforts.gfj

. . . . B.1.b.3 Coordination of watershed conservation and restoration effortsY (Y/N)

. . . . . . B.1.b.3.a

Name of plan
Brocksmith, R. 2011. Salmon Recovery Grant Process Guide Developing Salmon Habitat Recovery Projects in Hood Canal & The Eastern Strait of Juan De Fuca. Hood Canal Coordinating Council. http://hccc.wa.gov/CEDocuments/Downloads_GetFile.aspx?id=409934&fd=0

. . . . . . B.1.b.3.b

Description and scope of the plan implemented

The following Process Guide is an illustration of the Hood Canal Coordinating Council (HCCC) Lead Entity1 procedure for developing projects and forwarding to the Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) for review and funding. The Guide incorporates the recommendations of the consensus body Lead Entity members and member governments of the Regional Recovery Organization into each phase of the local process for the 2011 SRFB grant cycle. This Process Guide also serves as a reference that will assist all Lead Entity participants (project sponsors, committee members, staff, reviewers, etc.) throughout the process, from project development to final presentation to the SRFB. A significant change adopted by the SRFB to be performed by lead entities is the implementation of Endangered Species Act (ESA) salmon recovery plans, which in our region exist for chinook salmon, summer chum salmon and bull trout, with a plan for steelhead trout to be developed in the near future. The Hood Canal Coordinating Council is the designated Regional Recovery Organization for summer chum salmon as well as the Lead Entity for salmon recovery of all species in the Lead Entity area, including portions of Jefferson, Mason, and Kitsap Counties flowing into Hood Canal and the Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca. In addition, we are developing partnerships with the North Olympic Peninsula Lead Entity and its participants to expand this work into summer chum salmon habitat areas. The local process is divided into six phases that include the 3 Year Work Program update, preapplication & application, technical review & ranking, Habitat Project List Committee review & final ranking, HCCC administration, and SRFB review and funding. This Guide describes each of these phases and what participants can expect. The SRFB produces an updated Grants Manual each year that outlines state-wide processes that is a companion to this Process Guide. This information may be supplemented by additional material once the 2011 funding round begins. The Appendices in this Guide represent current and previous decisions that together strive to make the local process as effective and efficient as possible in light of the continuing recognition of the need for salmon recovery.

. . . . B.1.b.5 Tribal infrastructure supportY (Y/N)

. . . . . . B.1.b.5.a
Name of plan developed or implemented

McCollum, P. 2011. Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe Natural Resources Department Strategic Five Year Plan.

. . . . . . B.1.b.5.b

Description and scope of the plan developed/implemented

Providing optimal and sustainable natural resource management of the Tribe’s natural resources for now and at least seven generations to come, with special attention to the health and vitality of subsistence and commercial species populations and their associated ecosystems, while providing adequate conservation, research, monitoring and education to help ensure their health and abundance far into the future.