FY 2023 Skokomish River Salmon and Steelhead Stock Assessments

Salmonid Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RM&E)

Project ID	23-SKOK-02
Recovery Domains	Puget Sound
Start Date	07/01/2025
End Date	06/30/2026
Year	2023
Status	New
Last Edited	08/14/2024

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Description

Funding will provide support for a steelhead biologist and finfish technician. Staff will conduct spawning ground surveys (including visual, redd and carcass counts) and collect biological data for adult Chinook, coho, chum & pink salmon and steelhead in the Skokomish River system. While this project is geared at collecting data the information will ultimately be used to develop adult escapement estimates, determine hatchery versus wild interaction, and quantify age structure. Surveys will also complement standardized index area surveys to provide improved understanding of spawning abundance and distribution of steelhead as part of the NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center-directed supplementation study in the Hood Canal region. Juvenile salmonid surveys will also be conducted to estimate smolt production of Chinook, coho, chum and steelhead. A screw trap will be operated in the Skokomish River Mainstem and/or the South Fork to monitor Chinook, coho, and chum salmon and steelhead smolt outmigration timing and abundance and to estimate juvenile survival rates.

Project Benefit

This project will provide long-term abundance, distribution, and survival data for salmon species. This information is vital for proper harvest management, recovery planning, habitat management, and research projects.

Accomplishments

Metric

Completed

Originally
Proposed

Research and Monitoring

Stream Miles Monitored

35.00

Source

Funds

PCSRF

$152,785

Report Total:

$152,785

Worksites

54453385

Worksite Identifier: 54453385
Start Date:
End Date:

Area Description
Puget Sound and Hood Canal

Location Information

Basin: Puget Sound (171100)
Subbasin: Skokomish (17110017)
Watershed: Skokomish River-Frontal Hood Canal (1711001702)
Subwatershed: Skokomish River-Frontal Hood Canal (171100170204)

State: Washington
Recovery Domain: Puget Sound
Latitude: 47.326111
Longitude: -123.151944

ESU

Hood Canal Summer-run Chum Salmon ESU
Puget Sound Chinook Salmon ESU
Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia Coho Salmon ESU
Puget Sound Steelhead DPS

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Metrics

D.0 Salmonid Hatcheries and Harvest ManagementY (Y/N)
- . . D.0.b
  Complement habitat restoration project
- . . D.0.c
  Project Identified in a plan or watershed assessment.
- E.0 Salmonid Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation (RM&E)Y (Y/N)
  - . . E.0.a RM&E Funding
  - . . E.0.b
    Complement habitat restoration project
  - . . E.0.c
    Project identified in a plan or watershed assessment.
  - . . E.0.d.1 Number of Cooperating Organizations
  - . . E.0.d.2
    Name Of Cooperating Organizations.
  - . . E.0.e.1 Number of reports prepared
  - . . E.0.e.2
    Name Of Report
  - . . E.1 MonitoringY (Y/N)
    - . . . . E.1.a Monitoring funding
    - . . . . E.1.b.1 Stream Miles Monitored
    - . . . . E.1.b.2 Acres of Watershed Area Monitored
    - . . . . E.1.b.3 Square miles of water monitored (Square miles)
    - . . . . E.1.c.1 Adult salmonid population monitoringY (Y/N)
      - . . . . . . E.1.c.1.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for adult salmonids
    - . . . . E.1.c.2 Salmonid smolt or fry monitoringY (Y/N)
      - . . . . . . E.1.c.2.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for Salmonid smolt or fry
    - . . . . E.1.c.4 Redd countsY (Y/N)
      - . . . . . . E.1.c.4.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for redds
    - . . . . E.1.c.5 Carcass countsY (Y/N)
      - . . . . . . E.1.c.5.a # miles (to nearest 0.01 mile) monitored for Carcasses
      - . . . . E.1.d
        Name Of Comprehensive Monitoring Strategy/Program