7089

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7089
• Author: Northwest Power Planning Council.
• Title: Strategy for Salmon
• USFW Year: 1992.
• USFW - Doc Type: Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program.
• Copyright Material: NO

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Evaluate methods for decreasing water tem-,
perature infish ladders.

Evaluate effed:s of zero nighttime flow.

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Imprdve harvest management,

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· COI).tinue to limit harVest to allow a sufficient
number of adult fish to return to spaw~.

· ProNbit commercial harvest of sockeye be-
low the Confluence of the Snake and Colum-
bia rivers to protect endangered Snake River
sockeye. .

.,. Reduce overall harVest rgtes on Snake River
fall chinook to 55 percent ~f the run.' . ,

· Limit non-treaty river harvest of sprmg chi-
n~k to abou~ 4 percent ofthe\lpriver run.

· Prohibit commercial fishing for sUIl}IDer .chi-
nook until rebuilding allows it, continuing
" ' the ban that has been in place s~ce the, '
I mid-1960s. .

. Substantially reduce Canadian harvest of
U.S. salmon"and end the high seas drift-net
fishery.

· ,).-ease or buy Columbia River commercial
fishing licenses and develop a compensation
plan for fishers. '

· Demonsftate and evaluate harvest altern:a- .
tives, such as live-catch, knOwn-stOCK and "\
tenninalharvest fisheries.

'. 'Review sport fishing regulations and adopt
catch-:-and-release rules where appropriate,
account for and report on incidental harvest
of salmon in other fisheries~ and increase law
enforcement and public education to deter
illegal fishing.

1988 ,
Snake .River coho sa/man declared extinct.

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. National Ma),"ine Fisheries Se~ice;s.ttouldre':.
port each year on harv~st and esc~pement of
.' various Colu,mbia Basin salmon stocks.

. Develop and implement genetic stockiq.enti-
fication program.

Improve hatchery practice~1
prot~ct fish in the wild '

. Improve hatchery practices and make them
consistent throughout the ColUmbia Basin so
that hatchery fish are'better able to survive in
the natural envirgnmentand do not harm
fish that spawn in streams. .

.. . Audit hatchery practices throughout the
basin., '
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. National Marine Fisheries Service should
quickly develop guldelines on when to use .
" captive brood stock technology and othet
emergency measures tasave seriously de- ·
pleted salmon runs.

. Collect additionaliliformation on naturally
spawning salmon populationS, such as popu-
lation statuS, life history and'other data.

. Develop a.process for screening proposed
artifitial production projects for meeting
National Environmental Policy Act require.J
,ments.

. Pursue experiments in na~al and artificial
salmon production to measur~ the relativ.e .
, success of each approach for rebuilding de-
pleted populations.

. ,Study the juvenile fish carrying capacity of
the Colu,mbia River mainstem and estuary to
ensure that hatchery 'releases are not exceed:.
ing that capacity.

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