Port Gamble Tribe Salmon Recovery Planning
Salmonid Restoration Planning and Assessments
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| 09-PGAM-01 | | - | | 06/01/2010 | | 06/30/2011 | | 2009 | | Completed | | 05/01/2025 | | |
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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 implementation of the Puget Sound Chinook and Hood Canal Summer Chum Recovery Plans in collaboration with other tribes, WDFW, HCCC 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 pertains to salmon recovery issues. The project resulted in development of salmon recovery recommendations through various resource management processes. Involvement with watershed planning activities included coordinating habitat assessments and restoration project planning that resulted in identifying and then preparing to address factors that are constraining the recovery of healthy natural salmon production in the Tribes Usual and Accustomed (U&A) area.
Project Benefit
This project provides the Port Gamble SKlallam Tribe with valuable infrastructure to address the annual and of the recent year Puget Sound Chinook, Puget Sound Steelhead, and Hood Canal Summer Chum ESA listings and work toward their sustainable recovery back to the viable populations were only a couple of decades ago. Hatchery management involvement will ensure that hatchery operations are executed in concert with salmon recovery efforts and in a way that minimize actions that may be deleterious to ESA listed salmon, while still providing for treaty-reserved fishing opportunity. Funding Details |
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| PCSRF | $85,905 |
| Report Total: | $85,905 |
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Worksites
20117768
- Worksite Identifier: 20117768
- Start Date:
- End Date:
Area Description
No Area Description data was found for this worksite.
Location Information
- Basin: Puget Sound (171100)
- Subbasin: Hood Canal (17110018)
- Watershed:
- Subwatershed:
- State: Washington
- Recovery Domain:
- Latitude: 47.814825
- Longitude: -122.576403
ESU
- Puget Sound Chinook Salmon ESU
- Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia Coho Salmon ESU
- Hood Canal Summer-run Chum Salmon ESU
- Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia Chum Salmon ESU
- Puget Sound Steelhead DPS
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Metrics
Metrics
- B.0
Salmonid Restoration Planning and AssessmentsY (Y/N)
- . . B.0.a
Planning And Assessment Funding 85,905.00
- . . 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 85,905.00
- . . . . 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.
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- . . . . B.1.b.5
Tribal infrastructure supportY (Y/N)
- . . . . . . B.1.b.5.a
| Name of plan developed or 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.5.b
| Description and scope of the plan developed/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.
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