MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH OF KALAMA RIVER STEELHEAD WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE KALAMA RESEARCH TEAM PAT HULETT CAMERON SHARPE CHRIS WAGEMANN CHRIS GLEIZES
2 ACKNOWLEDEMENT$ NMFS NMFS WDFW WDFW MITCHELL ACT COLUMBIA RIVER FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
3 OVERVIEW O. mykiss DIVERSITY FISHERY OPPORTUNITIES MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES STOCK AND LIFE HISTORY FORMS RESIDENT / ANADROMOUS HATCHERY / WILD NATIVE / INTRODUCED
4 CONTRIBUTING FACTORS HABITAT FEATURES FISH BIOLOGY RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT GOOD FORTUNE OVERVIEW
LOWER COLUMBIA REGION
6 KALAMA WATERSHED
LOWER KALAMA FALLS
FISHWAY TRAP
SORTING AND PASSAGE
WILD SUMMER-RUN
WILD WINTER-RUN
RESIDENT RAINBOW TROUT
15 EARLY MANAGEMENT WILD FISHERY PRIOR TO 1950s NON-LOCAL HATCHERY STOCKS SINCE LATE 1950s (SKAMANIA SR, BEAVER CR. WR) SEPARATE H & W STOCK MGMT H & W TIMING DIFFERENCES
KALAMA FISHERY ZONES
Kalama Mainstem Temperatures
18 HARVEST RESTRICTIONS WILD STOCK DECLINES IN 1980s SR WILD RELEASE REGS IN 1986 (April – October) WR WILD RELEASE REGS IN 1991 (Year Around)
SUMMER-RUN HARVEST DATA
WINTER-RUN HARVEST DATA
21 HATCHERY-WILD ISSUES IMPACTS OF H PROGRAMS ON WILD? KALAMA RESEARCH STARTED 1975 H SPAWNERS OUTNUMBERED WILD H SPAWNERS PRODUCED JUVENILES ADULT PRODUCTION LOWER FOR H FISH PARTIAL H & W REPROD. ISOLATION GENETIC AND ECOLOGICAL RISKS
22 HATCHERY-WILD ISSUES STOPPED PASSING HATCHERY FISH ABOVE FISHWAY IN 1997 NEEDED TO STOP JUMPERS 50% OF SR JUMPED FALLS
KALAMA FALLS CURTAIN OF DENIAL
SUMMER-RUN ESCAPEMENT
WINTER-RUN ESCAPEMENT
HATCHERY WB SUMMER-RUN
HATCHERY WB WINTER 3-SALT
HATCHERY WB WINTER 4-SALT?
KALAMA FISHERY ZONES
30 THE END Upper Kalama Falls: end of Kalama River anadromous zone
BE LEGAL -- BE SAFE! WILD RELEASE RULES ENFORCED IN THESE WATERS