FY 2018 Skagit Watershed Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement

Salmonid Hatcheries and Harvest Management

Harvest Management
Project ID18-USIT-03
Recovery DomainsPuget Sound
Start Date07/31/2019
End Date06/01/2020
Year2018
StatusCompleted
Last Edited01/25/2024
 
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Description    


The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe utilized project funding to monitor commercial, Cultural and Subsistence, and research fisheries in the terminal Skagit River area. The Tribes Natural Resources Enforcement Department monitored the 2019 commercial Sockeye and Coho fisheries and supported the 2019 test sequence aimed at monitoring the conservation measures for Chinook Recovery. Then in 2020 the enforcement staff monitored known poaching areas for steelhead protection and monitored commercial fisheries the Spring Chinook fisheries. Enforcement staff coordinate with biologists from the Natural Resources Department to ensure catch sampling and reporting met the standards set forth by tribal resolutions and regulations. In addition staff responded to lost or derelict gear in the Skagit River, and coordinated with other resource agencies enforcement for all efforts to protect fishery resources.

Project Benefit    


The primary benefit is to prevent illegal harvest and to monitor tribal fisheries to ensure fishers are complying with harvest and conservation regulations that were developed in PFMC and North of Falcon arenas and ordinances set forth by Tribal Council. The presence of an officer on the fishing grounds during fisheries facilitates communication with harvest managers on accurate catch accounting and reporting to ensure that tribal fisheries are managed to achieve conservation goals. The officers also conducts surveys for illegal fishing and responds to all derelict reports reducing or eliminating accidental and illegal takes of Chinook.
The Skagit Recovery Plan highlights the impacts of illegal take in Chapter 6, under section 6.3.3 Poaching. In chapter 7 Harvest Management Actions under section 7.8 “Harvest Enforcement Actions” have identified a series of recommendations for monitoring these impacts. The funds used for this project address recommendations identified in the Skagit Recovery Plan, more specifically the plan outline 10 recommendations, two of which are supported by this proposal. Recommendation #2 (page 72 and 73): “Demand on existing enforcement staff is expected to increase, necessitating the need for increased cooperation through the development of effective partnerships.” Recommendation #3: “Future state and tribal compliance priorities will focus on illegal harvest and take for both anadromous and native resident salmonid species as well as habitat protection to provide “gravel to gravel” protection by vigorously enforcing current state, tribal and federal protection regulations.”

Accomplishments

Metric Completed Originally
Proposed

Funding Details

SourceFunds
PCSRF$53,170
Report Total:$53,170


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Location Information

  • Basin: Puget Sound (171100)
  • Subbasin: Lower Skagit (17110007)
  • Watershed: Finney Creek-Skagit River (1711000701)
  • Subwatershed: Hansen Creek-Skagit River (171100070107)
  • State: Washington
  • Recovery Domain: Puget Sound
  • Latitude: 48.539311
  • Longitude: -122.184275

ESU

  • Puget Sound Chinook Salmon ESU

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Metrics

Metrics
  • D.0 Salmonid Hatcheries and Harvest ManagementY (Y/N)
    •      . . D.0.a Hatchery and harvest mgmt. funding 53,170.00
    •      . . D.0.b
      Complement habitat restoration project
    •      . . D.0.c
      Project Identified in a plan or watershed assessment.
    •      . . D.3 Harvest Management ProjectY (Y/N)
      •      . . . . D.3.a Harvest Management Funding 53,170.00
      •      . . . . D.3.e.1 EnforcementY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . D.3.e.2 Acres of land covered by enforcement 2,037,945.0