Comprehensive Management Plan for Puget Sound Chinook Harvest.

Comprehensive Management Plan for Puget Sound Chinook

Harvest

• Conservation:• Population productivity, abundance & diversity• Account for all fishery-related mortality

• Legal & Policy Obligations:• Indian Treaty Rights• Puget Sound Salmon Management Plan • Pacific Salmon Treaty• Meet ESA Jeopardy Standards

• Provide Fishing Opportunities:• Healthy Species & Stocks

Puget Sound ChinookHarvest Plan Objectives

• Populations• Stocks• Management

Units

Conservation for:

Puget Sound Chinook Complex Life History

North Pacific Fisheries Management Council

Alaska Board of Fisheries

Pacific Salmon

Commission

Canadian Department of Fisheries and

Oceans

Pacific Fisheries Management

Council

Columbia River Compact (WA, OR &

Tribes)

U.S. v Washington Plans

U.S. v Oregon Plans

Puget Sound Chinook Controlling Fisheries

Puget Sound Chinook Controlling Fisheries

SeasonsCatch QuotasArea RestrictionsGear RestrictionsSize Limits“Impact” Limits

Spawning Numbers

Control FisheriesTo Meet

Spawning Goal:

Avoid Low Spawner

Abundance

Meet or exceed Upper Spawner

Threshold

Cedar River ChinookSpawning Escapement Trend

Upper Threshold= 1680

Lake Washington ChinookExploitation Rates

Lake Washington Chinook

Fishing Impacts 2009Alaska & Canada 21%

Southern U.S. total 20%

Pre-Terminal Only 11%

Terminal Only 9%

TOTAL All Fisheries

41%

Puget Sound Chinook

2009Management Plan Rate Limits

Skagit S/F 50%

Skagit Spring 38%

Stillaguamish 25%

Snohomish 21%

White R Spring 20%

Puyallup 50%

Puget Sound Chinook

Lake WashingtonFishing Impacts under Revised

Plan – beginning in 2010Alaska & Canada Canada-U.S. Treaty

thru- 2018 (~21%)

Southern U.S. max rate 20%

Terminal Area(Shilshole Bay, Ship Canal, Lake Wa)

No chinook-directed fishing

Expected TOTAL Rate All Fisheries

41%

Puget Sound Chinook

Lake WashingtonRevised Plan

Terminal Area(Shilshole Bay, Ship Canal,

Lake Wa)

No chinook-directed fishing

Except if: Cedar River Escapement > 1680

Co-Managers may conduct chinook-directed fisheries

Expected Rate in All Fisheries

may > 41%

Cedar River ChinookSpawning Escapement Trend

In-Season Estimation• Lock Counts & other information• Total Runsize• Cedar River Runsize• Cedar River Spawners• Fishery (tribal & state) Impacts• Estimate Uncertainty

How will we know if we will exceed the Upper

Threshold ?

Sammamish ChinookSpawning Escapement Trend