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Washington State Steelhead Status Review

Washington State Steelhead Status Review. PACIFIC COAST STEELHEAD MEETING JON ANDERSON WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE MARCH 9-11, 2010. NOAA Determination of Washington State Steelhead Status by DPS. Not Warranted for listing Olympic Peninsula Southwest Washington Threatened

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Washington State Steelhead Status Review

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  1. Washington State Steelhead Status Review PACIFIC COAST STEELHEAD MEETING JON ANDERSON WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE MARCH 9-11, 2010

  2. NOAA Determination of Washington State Steelhead Status by DPS • Not Warranted for listing • Olympic Peninsula • Southwest Washington • Threatened • Lower Columbia River • Middle Columbia River • Snake River Basin • Puget Sound • Upper Columbia River • downlisted from Endangered 6/18/09

  3. Steelhead – Washington State DPSs

  4. Steelhead – Puget Sound DPS

  5. Steelhead – Olympic Peninsula DPS

  6. Steelhead – Southwest Washington DPS

  7. Steelhead – Lower Columbia River DPS Winter run

  8. Steelhead – Lower Columbia River DPS Summer run

  9. Steelhead – Middle Columbia River DPS

  10. Steelhead – Upper Columbia River DPS

  11. Steelhead – Columbia / Snake River Dams

  12. Steelhead – Snake River DPS

  13. STATEWIDE STEELHEAD MANAGEMENT PLAN Fish & Wildlife Comm. Adopted March 2008 Middle Columbia Olympic Peninsula Lower Columbia Puget Sound SW Washington Upper Columbia Snake River Natural Production Habitat Protection and Restoration Fisheries Management Artificial Production Regulatory Compliance Monitoring, Evaluation, & Adaptive Management Research Outreach & Education

  14. The SSMP at work Promote achievement of conservation and recovery goals in each watershed and support sustainable fisheries • Fisheries consistent with natural production policy • Promote selective harvest of hatchery steelhead • Manage in All-H strategy • Account for all sources of fishery related mortalities • Establish foundation for watershed steelhead planning

  15. The SSMP at work The plan provides a framework for statewide steelhead management for each watershed through: • Clear goals • Identified objectives • Strategies

  16. Stillaguamish/Snohomish Steelhead Resource Management Plan Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians, The Tulalip Tribes and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

  17. Steelhead watershed planning • Development of watershed management plans for steelhead: • Develop watershed template • High risk populations initial focus • Use recovery plans where developed as guide • Habitat Conservation Plans • Other Resource Management Plans

  18. Steelhead watershed planning • Stock abundance, distribution, timing, genetic information and status • Natural production – goal same as statewide policy guidance • Viable salmonid population goals = viability (>95% probability of persistence in 100 years)

  19. Steelhead watershed planning • Define wild steelhead viability stressors for each H. • Document current factors impacting wild steelhead viability • Include alternative solutions that may be appropriate to achieve the desired outcomes

  20. Example of hatchery stressor

  21. Example of habitat stressor

  22. Steelhead watershed planning • Artificial production • Defined goals for programs • Program modifications based upon viability stressor and alternatives identified

  23. Steelhead watershed planning • Harvest Management • How conducted in future to support conservation needs • Threshold abundance levels for instituting different management strategies in lieu of single MSH escapement goal (e.g. abundance based management) • Allocation of harvest • Schedules/implementation of fisheries

  24. Steelhead watershed planning • Habitat • Define actions necessary to improve rebuilding of wild steelhead • Limiting factors • Recovery Plan actions • Priority areas to protect and restore within watershed

  25. Steelhead watershed planning • Adaptive Management • Develop plan and describe frequency for review and assessment • Assess results with original intent or goal for all Hs. • Use current data to inform decision making

  26. Roles and Responsibilities • WDFW Regions – develop DRAFT watershed plans • Lead for coordination with respective tribes and federal government • Fish – hatchery and harvest sections • Habitat – habitat sections • Headquarters • Regional roll-up of watershed plans • Coordination with Steelhead-Cutthroat Policy Adv. Grp. • Analyses – harvest rate etc. • Feedback for SSMP and Science Paper consistency

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