FY22 Salmonid Enhancement and Harvest Management Planning and Analysis

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



A. [Worksite: Strait of Juan de Fuca]

JST will continue to use the long-standing technical expertise of the Point No Point Treaty Council staff for harvest and hatchery management to assist our capacity to exercise tribal-treaty fishing rights. Activities may include writing stock status reports, recovery-planning, recovery implementation and reporting 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 will continue to develop harvest regulations that comply with ESA requirements, participate in hatchery and harvest management meetings and forums, and be directly involved in other relevant harvest and hatchery management planning processes among the tribes and Washington State, while supporting S’Klallam tribal priorities through technical models.

B. [Worksite: Dungeness]

Tribal staff will continue to assist with harvest management efforts as necessary for exercising tribal-treaty fishing rights or native-subsistence fishing of anadromous salmonids. The Tribe will participate with co-managers in pre-season forecasting and negotiations. The Tribe will continue 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. The Tribe may continue to explore feasibility of other supplementation efforts and related HGMP development.

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.



Targeted ESU or species

ESA-listed Chinook, bull trout, summer chum, and steelhead, along with coho, pinks, and fall chum