Puget Sound

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Puget Sound Salmon Hatchery Management
Independent Scientific Review Process
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Puget Sound Salmon Management Plan
Provides legal framework for hatchery decision
making under United States vs. Washington
Promote stability and vitality of treaty and
non-treaty fisheries
Improve practical and technical basis for
management
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Puget Sound Salmon Management Plan
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Description of the standard mode of operating
hatchery facilities and functions that has been
agreed to by the co-managers
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The annual expression of the equilibrium brood
program for the coming year
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Comprehensive Management Plans
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ESA Implications
Puget Sound chinook salmon and summer chum salmon
listed as threatened in 1999
Federally funded programs evaluated for whether
they are likely to jeopardize the existence of
the listed ESU (Section 7)
Hatchery programs may be excepted from take
restrictions if provide
Hatchery and genetic management plans (HGMP)
consistent with conservation guidelines (Section
4(d) criteria)
Resource management plans that show activities
will not appreciably reduce the likelihood of
survival and recovery of the ESU consistent with
jurisdiction under United States vs. Washington
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ESA Responses
Puget Sound tribes (through BIA) provide NMFS
with a biological assessment of tribal hatchery
activities in 1999 and begin consultations with
NMFS on their hatchery activities (Section 7)
WDFW and Puget Sound tribes provide NMFS with a
joint resource management plan and all HGMPs for
chinook salmon in August 2002
WDFW and Puget Sound tribes provide NMFS with
non-chinook HGMPs in March 2003 after WDFW is
threatened with a lawsuit from Washington Trout
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NEPA ESA
NMFS has determined that the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) applies to its
actions in evaluating hatcheries under ESA
Schedule and approach are being developed now
Two-phase schedule with near-term environmental
assessments (EA) followed by an environmental
impact statement (EIS) in two years
Alternatives have not yet been developed
Broad scale, ESU level assessment
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Independent Scientific Review
Independent scientific review has emerged as
another tool for improving the technical basis
for management
The Hatchery Scientific Review Group (HSRG) is an
independent panel formed by Congress to ensure
that hatchery programs in western Washington are
scientifically founded and evaluated
HSRG provides a systematic review of all hatchery
programs by region and development of
recommendations and alternatives
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Integration
Comprehensive Management Plans