Salmon Recovery Planning In Clallam County and the Dungeness River

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Salmon Recovery PlanningIn Clallam County
andthe Dungeness River

• The Story Continues

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How are things coordinated?

• The Shared Strategy for Puget Sound

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Shared Strategy Timeline

• November, 2003 Fall Benchmark Questions
• June, 2004 Additional Benchmark Questions
• June, 2005 Recovery Plan Submitted to NMFS

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Whats been Happening here

• Restoring the Dungeness 6/03
• Fall Benchmark Questions 11/6/03
• Land Use Strategy Report 8/03
• 2514 Watershed Plan - Pending
• June 2004 Benchmark Questions
• Harvest and Hatchery Component
• NMFS Independent Assessment

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Fall Benchmark Questions

• Question 1 For the Dungeness River, What are
  the major physical and biological changes
  necessary for you to achieve your planning
  targets, including nearshore habitat?
• Information provided from Restoring the Dungeness

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Fall Benchmark Questions

• Question 2 What technical and policy questions
  and issues does your initial analysis raise?
• Voluntary actions needed
• Existing water rights
• Implementation of 2514 Plan
• Funding
• Evaluation of plan elements
• Corrective measures

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Fall Benchmark Questions

• Question 3 What changes do you think your area
  is ready to make the most progress on over the
  next 5 to 10 years?
• Implementation of CIDMP
• Estuary Restoration (Rivers End)
• Site specific restoration projects.

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June 2004 Questions

• What will it take to achieve planning targets?
• What is the watershed vision for salmon recovery?
• What are the measurable recovery goals and the
  timeframe to achieve them?
• What can be done in the next 5 -10 years?

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June 2004 Questions (cont.)

• What are the preliminary costs of actions?
• What commitments (policy level decisions,
  acquisition, regulations, incentives, etc.) will
  be necessary for implementation?
• What conditions need to be in place for the
  commitments to be made?

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Planning Targets

• Abundance
• Productivity/Growth Rates
• Diversity
• Spatial Structure

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Dungeness River Chinook

• Abundance Spawning escapement of 1,200 to 4,700
  adult chinook
• Productivity 3.0 Recruits/spawner at escapement
  of 1,200 adults
• Diversity Spring/Summer Timing
• Spatial Structure Throughout the historic range
  within the Dungeness River basin.

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Dungeness Summer Chum

• Abundance ?????
• Productivity/Growth Rates ???
• Diversity ?????
• Spatial Structure ?????

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Dungeness Bull Trout

• Abundance ?????
• Productivity/Growth Rates ???
• Diversity ?????
• Spatial Structure ?????

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Action Identification

• Restoring the Dungeness
• The Blue Book
• DRMT Watershed Plan (2514)
• NOPLE Strategy
• Hatchery Genetic Management Plan
• Harvest Management Objectives
• Comprehensive Irrigation District Management Plan
  (CIDMP)

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Action Identification (Cont.)

• Summer Chum Conservation Initiative
• Towards Recovery (Clallam County)
• Other (Fish and Forest, DNR HCP, Federal Forest
  Plan, HPAs, etc.)
• Specific Best Management Practices adopted by
  local governments

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Where are we right now?

• Restoring the Dungeness has been reviewed by the
  TRT/Shared Strategy
• good demonstration of wealth of work done..
• accessible to lay audience
• provides a good foundation for the next step
• Very good on strategies
• Motivating to keep momentum

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Where are we right now?

• Restoring the Dungeness (cont)
• Need to see an assessment of how far theyd get
  toward their goal.
• Need to address the scale of restoration and
  cost.
• Should be explicit about hypotheses.
• appears weak esp. on spatial structure and
  life history diversity
• Need to address the relative certainty of their
  actions.

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The Big Question

• Does (The Blue Book) (2514 Plan)
• (CIDMP) (County Comp Plan)
• (Fish Forest) (DNR HCP) (Federal Forest
  Plan) (Harvest Plan) (Hatchery Plan)
  (Nearshore Strategy) 1,200 spawning adults _at_
  3.0 adults/spawner?

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Recommended Actions

• EDT analysis should be run on range of options
  (high, med., and low certainty) for recovery
  plan, including an overlay of expectations for
  future development under existing land use
  practices.
• Continue to use Restoring the Dungeness as the
  template for a broader recovery plan
• DRMT/RRWG should immediately begin work on
  answering the questions posed by Shared Strategy
  for June 2004.

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Recommended Actions (Cont.)

• RRWG should work on developing specific technical
  responses to TRTs review of Restoring the
  Dungeness
• Cooperatively work with co-managers to
  incorporate hatchery and harvest management into
  the recovery plan.
• Incorporate Bull Trout into the recovery plan.

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