Puget Sound Salmon Hatcheries April 2003 Puget Sound Salmon Hatchery Management Decision Making ESA & NEPA Processes Independent Scientific Review Process

Puget Sound Salmon Hatcheries April 2003 Puget Sound Salmon Management Plan Promote stability and vitality of treaty and non-treaty fisheries Provides legal framework for hatchery decision making under United States vs. Washington Improve practical and technical basis for management

Puget Sound Salmon Hatcheries April 2003 Puget Sound Salmon Management Plan Equilibrium Brood Document Comprehensive Management Plans Future Brood Document

Puget Sound Salmon Hatcheries April 2003 Equilibrium Brood Document Description of the standard mode of operating hatchery facilities and functions that has been agreed to by the co-managers Facilities Species cultured Activities (transfer, brood stock collection, rearing, release, etc.) Size, timing, number of fish released Brood stock source Contingency plans

Puget Sound Salmon Hatcheries April 2003 Future Brood Document The annual expression of the equilibrium brood program for the coming year Compiled annually Documents annual production, stock transfers, and changes

Puget Sound Salmon Hatcheries April 2003 Comprehensive Management Plans Provides context for equilibrium brood programs Achieve coordination between co-managers Eliminate potential conflicts in achieving the resource management strategy

Puget Sound Salmon Hatcheries April 2003 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

Puget Sound Salmon Hatcheries April 2003 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 ESA Responses WDFW and Puget Sound tribes provide NMFS with non-chinook HGMPs in March 2003 after WDFW is threatened with a lawsuit from Washington Trout

Puget Sound Salmon Hatcheries April 2003 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

Puget Sound Salmon Hatcheries April 2003 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

Puget Sound Salmon Hatcheries April 2003 Comprehensive Management Plans Equilibrium Brood Document Future Brood Document Independent Scientific Review (HSRG) HGMPs Resource Management Plans Integration Puget Sound Salmon Management Plan Endangered Species Act & consultations with NMFS Independent Reviews Environmental Impact Assessment National Environmental Policy Act