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The Genetics Management Plan is the operational document. It tells the "what, who, when, where" of implementation. It identifies specific objectives, tasks, activities, and type of facilities necessary to accomplish Recovery Program goals, i.e., protect population genetic integrity or restore aself-sustaining population in nature. It is the action plan developed for implementation, directed by the Recovery Program goals, and structured along the format presented in the Genetics Management Planning Guidelines document. Improved development and implementation of the Genetics Management Plan relies on genetics data generated from genetics surveys. Genetics management requires a great deal of operational activity. Refugia and propagation facilities must be planned, built, and operated in a coordinated fashion. For this reason, the General Recovery Program Support Action Plan contains tasks to produce an annual Propagation Operational Plan. Based on the Genetics Management Plan, this annual Propagation Operational Plan provides specific annual guidance for propagation: numbers of adults and family lots needed from each population, number of fish needed in each family lot, and where these fish will be raised and maintained. Additional facilities are required to meet short-term (within five years; experimental stocking) propagation needs, and plans are being formulated to meet long-term (five years or more; augmentation and restoration stocking) needs. The plan for these facilities is the Coordinated Hatchery Facility Plan. This Plan, in accordance with the Genetics Management Plan, defines facilities required to meet propagation needs, identifies fish needs that can be met by existing facilities, discusses the need for additional facilities, recommends expansion or modification of existing facilities or new constructions, and estimates costs for construction and operation of these facilities. 2.5 V MONITOR POPULATIONS AND HABITAT AND CONDUCT RESEARCH TO SUPPORT RECOVERY ACTIONS This category consists primarily of research and monitoring activities which have application to more than one of the foregoing elements. In the subbasin Recovery Action Plans, this element includes activities to identify additional spawning sites and the importance of tributaries which have been investigated only very little. Research activities are identified for each subbasin only to the extent that such activities are related to another recovery action in that subbasin. Such identification now, however, does not preclude further research in that subbasin that may be identified later or that is identified in the General Recovery Program Support Action Plan. In the General Recovery Program Support Action Plan, this element includes: monitoring populations and habitat and annually assessing changes in habitat and population parameters; determining gaps in existing life history information (such as determining how the endangered fishes may imprint to their natal areas via chemoreception) and recommending and conducting research to fill those gaps; and improving scientific research and sampling techniques. 11