HATCHERY REFORM: PRINCIPLES AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE HATCHERY SCIENTIFIC REVIEW GROUP

In April 2004, the Hatchery Scientific Review Group published Hatchery Reform: Principles and Recommendations of the Hatchery Scientific Review Group. This document includes the principles, tools and recommendations that resulted from the HSRG's three-year review of over 200 hatchery programs at over 100 hatcheries.

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Appendices

Scientific Framework for the Artificial Propogation of Salmon and Steelhead

1. Management Goals for Hatchery Broodstocks: Genetic Integration versus Segregation
2. Using Hatchery Salmon Carcasses for Nutrification of Freshwater Ecosystems While Reducing Associated Fish Health Risks
3. Hatchery Smolt Quality and Achieving the Wild Salmon Template
4. Benefits of Hatchery Fish as a Source of Food
5. Marine Carrying Capacity
6. Outplanting and Net Pen Release of Hatchery-Origin Fish
7. Assessing the Potential for Predation on Wild Salmonid Fry by Hatchery-Reared Salmonids in Washington
8. Using Acclimation Ponds in the Rearing of Salmon

PROGRAM-SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS BY REGION:

1. Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca
2. South Puget Sound
3. Stillaguamish/Snohomish Rivers
4. Appendices

1. Skagit River Basin
2. Nooksack/Samish Rivers
3. Central Puget Sound
4. Appendices

1. Hood Canal
2. Willapa Bay
3. North Coast
4. Grays Harbor
5. Appendices

HSRG REPORT PRESS PACKET, APRIL 23, 2004