Port Gamble FY 2020 Harvest Management and Hatchery Planning

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The goal in Harvest management is to protect, restore and enhance the productivity, production, and diversity of Port Gamble targeted fishery species with special attention to summer Chum, Chinook salmon and winter Steelhead and their ecosystems. We hope to provide surplus production sufficient to allow future directed and incidental harvests of summer chum salmon. Harvest management is vital for all tribes and states to participate in. The process currently in place puts checks and balances on tribal and state commercial fisheries to ensure that fishing rights are preserved while meeting escapement and recovery goals. The tribal harvest management program is critical to protect, sustain, and recover salmon and steelhead fisheries. Without this program in place, harvest rates would be exploited to a rate where recovery may be unattainable.