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<br />Page 51 <br /> <br />any event, hatchery fish will also be adequate to restore a population as long as appropriate hatchery <br />management plans have been developed. We will consider our efforts successful if the designated <br />number of populations are reached and persist through the life of the Agreement. <br /> <br />In addition to the number of populations in a management unit we must also identify the adequate <br />population size within each unit to help determine if we are successful. For each species, the Team <br />will attempt to determine the number of individuals required per population to maintain the <br />population in perpetuity. Because we have limited life history and historical information on these <br />species, we must leave this criterion for later refinement. We will use historical and newly collected <br />data to further refine population criteria. These values will be assigned by year five of the Agreement <br />(2009). <br /> <br />If we find that it is too difficult or expensive to effectively evaluate the number of individuals per <br />population statewide, we will instead use population trends or relative abundance over the course of <br />the Agreement to determine whether we are successful in meeting this criteria. Because it will likely <br />be difficult to maintain up-to-date information on all streams statewide, we will not require recent <br />information on all streams at the end of the Agreement. Instead. we will evaluate' the observed <br />situation from 2009 - 2014 (the last five years of the Agreement), compile that with the information <br />obtained through baseline surveys in 2003 through 2009, and use all of this information to make a <br />determination. <br />