FY21 Salmonid Enhancement and Harvest Management Planning and Analysis

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



[Worksite: Strait of Juan de Fuca]

Point No Point Treaty Council staff conducted harvest and hatchery management activities, such as: preparation of stock status reports, recovery-planning updates, and 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. Treaty Council staff were also involved in developing harvest regulations, fishery/harvest evaluations, and participation in related hatchery and harvest management planning processes.



[Worksite: Dungeness]

Tribal staff conducted 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. Tasks included 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 among natural spawners and using the information to adapt and plan future approaches to the supplementation/broodstock programs.

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.