FY23 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]

The Tribe will continue to benefit from Point No Point Treaty Council technical expertise to support the Tribe’s harvest and hatchery management priorities through technical research, review, modeling, and expertise. Tasks include the following types of support: writing stock status reports, salmon 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.







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. For example, staff 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 carcass sample information to determine proportions of wild and hatchery Chinook returns spawning naturally and comparing this to the proportion of wild and hatchery Chinook returns spawned for broodstock purposes.

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 versus hatchery returns will be used for adapting and planning future approaches to the supplementation and broodstock programs.