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chum salmon. The spawning channels also provide rearing habitat for other species such as Chinook and coho salmon. In the late 1970s, SEP, in its infancy, developed facility targets in a piecemeal fashion. The present system evolved by dividing the geographic regions into management units. Each unit reviewed the individual stocks as to the status, ability to manage and capacity for additional production potential. There are three area planning committees that develop recommendations, the South Coast Division, Fraser River -Yukon Division, and the North Coast Division. When a project shows promise, the management unit outlines the expected economic and social benefits and submits it to the Treasury Board. For allocation of construction and operating dollars, the project has a goal of 1.5:1 benefit/cost ratio (Hurst and Blackman 1988). Each project uses estimated survival rates for each type of enhancement strategy and is sized accordingly. Federal fisheries biologists have increased productivity of lakes and streams by the application of fertilizers. This technique is used in situations when there are sufficient sockeye salmon spawners and suitable habitat is available. The fertilization promotes increased growth of the basic components. of the salmonid food chain. SEP also concentrates on habitat improvements for enhancing salmonid productivity by some basic stream improvements. These improvements may require physical cleanup, placement of boulders, planting of streamside vegetation, flow control, and eliminate possible pollution sources. We reviewed 18 projects in BC; 9 were considered true supplementation, 8 were evaluated. One of these projects was considered not successful in contributing to natural production. Steelhead BC's total Steelhead hatchery production for 1989 was only 2.4 million fish. These were planted into 28 systems. Steelhead are released at three life history stages: smolt, parr, and fry. The strategy of the smolt programs is to grow the. smolts as large as .possible (60-100 g or 190-220 mm), then outplant during late April to late May. The smolt-to- adult survival varied from 1 percent for small smolts to almost 10 percent for 60 g smolts (BC's program released 800,000 smolts in 1987). They determined that they could gain 30-40 percent smolt-to-adult survival by lower river releases, i.e., tide water. They had much lower survival for groups released only 10 km upstream. BC's major limitation in steelhead research is returning adult enumeration. Parr - BC released 355,000 parr from brood year 1987. They use two strategies for parr releases, both with 15 g fish (30/lb). This program began in 1987 and the return data for the Coquihalla River demonstrated aparr-to-adult survival of 2.6 percent. They expected 3.2 percent parr-to-adult survival. Based on cost comparisons to produce 100 27