FY20 Salmonid Enhancement and Harvest Management Planning and Analysis

This project allowed for continued salmonid enhancement and harvest management activities at the following worksites:



[Worksite: Strait of Juan de Fuca]

Point No Point Treaty Council staff continued to participate in harvest management activities necessary for exercising tribal-treaty fishing rights. Activities included providing recovery-planning updates, assisting with developing a new Puget Sound Chinook Resource Management Plan (RMP 2017 and 2022), developing recovery implementation reports on the progress of harvest and hatchery management of ESA-listed Puget Sound Chinook, Puget Sound Steelhead, and Hood Canal Summer Chum, as specified in approved recovery plans. Treaty staff assisted with the development of harvest regulations, participated in hatchery and harvest management meetings and forums and other relevant harvest and hatchery management planning processes. Staff also participated in pre-season planning to set harvest management strategies, including attending the spring 2022 North of Falcon meetings.



[Worksite: Dungeness]

Tribal staff assisted with harvest management efforts as necessary for exercising tribal-treaty fishing rights or native-subsistence fishing of anadromous salmonids. The Tribe continued to assess the Dungeness Chinook Supplementation Program by evaluating coded wire tag recoveries and other information from carcass sampling to determine proportions of wild and hatchery Chinook returns spawning naturally, comparing to the proportions of wild and hatchery Chinook returns spawned for broodstock purposes, and using the information to adapt and plan future approaches to the supplementation/broodstock programs. JSTs Fisheries Manager attended spring 2023 North of Falcon salmon planning meetings.

The goal of our harvest management planning continues to be to develop strategies that, when implemented, will protect ESA-listed salmonids, and produce regulations that ultimately benefit ESA-listed salmonids. The harvest management planning, updates and analyses are recommended in approved recovery plans.



Evaluating carcass and tag data allows restoration planners to determine contributions from the naturally produced portion of Chinook returns, detect trends, and gage effects of the supplementation efforts on boosting abundance of Chinook populations. Analyses of wild verses hatchery returns will be used for adapting and planning future approaches to the supplementation and broodstock programs.