Nisqually Salmon Recovery Update

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Nisqually Salmon Recovery Update

• brief review/reminder of strategy and process to
  update strategy
• updates to this years 3 year workplan
• request to the Council to approve updates to
  workplan
• review of process to allocate state/federal
  salmon recovery money new process option this
  year
• request to the Council to review/approve the
  submission to the state of 3 recovery projects
  for funding in this years cycle

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Nisqually River Salmon Recovery Planning

• Nisqually Chinook Recovery Plan released in
  August 2001
• Submitted to the regional Puget Sound Chinook
  Endangered Species Recovery Plan in 2005
• adopted as official plan by the federal govt. in
  2007
• using adaptive management process the plan is
  updated yearly and resubmitted to the region and
  federal science panel for review

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Nisqually Chinook Recovery Plan
Strategy for Success outlines plan to meet 15
year, 50 year and 100 year goals

• Integrated Approach
• Habitat Action Plan
• Hatchery Operation Guidelines
• Harvest Management

4. Adaptive Management Strategy - plan is
dynamic and flexible as new information is
available, annual reports and meetings ensure
continual reevaluation of the plan
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Long term goals (50 to 100 years)

• Assure natural production of Chinook in
  perpetuity by providing high quality, functioning
  habitat and by developing a self-sustaining,
  naturally spawning population with diverse
  geographic distribution.
• Assure sustainable harvest opportunities.
• Provide significant contributions to ecosystem
  functions.
• Secure and enhance natural production of all
  salmonids.
• Assure that the economic, cultural, and social
  benefits derived from the Nisqually ecosystem
  will be sustained in perpetuity.

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10 Year objectives

• Stock objective
• Integrate harvest, hatchery, and habitat actions
  in order to manage for
• 1200 self-sustaining natural origin recruits
• lt5 contribution from hatchery origin recruits
• terminal harvest of 10,000 15,000 if consistent
  with escapement objective.
• Habitat objective
• Utilize protection and restoration actions to
  support the stock objective.
• Protection component No further degradation in
  the Nisqually watersheds and Puget Sounds
  ability to support the productivity, abundance,
  and life history diversity of natural origin
  Nisqually Chinook.
• Restoration component Restore habitat in the
  Nisqually watershed and in Puget Sound to support
  a predicted increase in natural origin Nisqually
  Chinook productivity, abundance, and life history
  diversity.

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Priority Habitat Areas
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Goals
Estuary Restoration (Acres)
Mainstem Protection ( Protected)
Ohop Restoration (Miles)
Mashel Restoration (Miles)
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Progress to Date
Estuary Restoration (Acres)
Mainstem Protection ( Protected)
Ohop Restoration (Miles)
Goal
Progress
Mashel Restoration (Miles)
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Hatchery ReformNisqually Seasonal Weir

• Recovery Issue
• too many hatchery fish are spawning in the wild
  with natural origin fish, not allowing the
  natural origin fish to develop adaptations to
  local conditions

Solution Remove hatchery fish from the
spawning population using a seasonal weir placed
in the river just above the hatcheries.
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Weir Location Map
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Hatchery ReformNisqually Seasonal Weir

• Schedule
• Final design 2008-09
• Permitting 2008-09
• Construction 2010

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Nisqually River Salmon Recovery 3 year workplan

• our regional salmon recovery organization, Puget
  Sound Partnership, requires we submit a new
  updated 3 year workplan each year
• the workplan lists all the actions and
  associated costs that we propose to take to
  implement our recovery plan over the next three
  years
• Much of this years proposed update is the same
  as last years with a few specific proposed
  updates

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Nisqually River Salmon Recovery 3 year workplan
habitat updates

• 8 new proposed habitat projects
• 2 major updates to habitat project descriptions

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• 8 new proposed habitat projects
• Sequalitchew Estuarine Restoration Design
• Chambers Bay Estuarine and Riparian restoration
• East Nisqually Reach Beach Nourishment
• Titlow Estuary Restoration
• Chamber Beach Reconstruction and Riparian
• Tatramima Trust Shoreline Acquisition
• Powell Creek Watershed Restoration
• Forespring Property Protection

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Forespring Acquisition
Tatrimima acquisition
Powell Creek Watershed Restoration
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• 2 updated habitat projects
• Mashel Eatonville Restoration Phase II
• Powell Creek/Nisqually mainstem off-channel
  reconnection

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other updates to 3 year workplan

• major update to adaptive management plan, further
  documents scientific framework, identifies
  objectives, outlines a monitoring plan to inform
  future revisions of the recovery plan
• variable harvest and weir operations schedule
  development
• testing selective commercial fishing gear for
  tribal in river fishery
• addition of monitoring actions identified in
  adaptive management plan

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2 salmon recovery habitat project funds Puget
Sound Acquisition and Restoration
Fund estimated 1,635,882 for Nisqually to
allocate Salmon Recovery Funding Board number
still being finalized probably under 400,000
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