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Steelhead Smolt Production Program: Lessons on Fisheries Management & Compliance Success

Explore the history and challenges faced by the Skagit Project's PM&E compliance in the Steelhead Smolt Production Program. Understand the implementation steps, results, and shifts in funding towards wild steelhead research. Learn about the factors influencing program changes and the role of oversight committees in adapting to evolving resource policies.

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Steelhead Smolt Production Program: Lessons on Fisheries Management & Compliance Success

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  1. Should Fish PM&E Compliance = Success?

  2. Skagit Project History • Relicensed 1995 • 18 Years of PM&E Implementation • 30 Year License remains in effect until 2025 • Seven distinct PM&E Fish Programs

  3. Steelhead Smolt Production Program Program Objective “Increase steelhead production in the upper Skagit River to offset any residual project impacts on the steelhead fishery resource”

  4. Actual Implementation Steps & Schedule Year 1 Year 10 Year 20 Year 30 5-Year Implementation Delay 1-Year Design Phase 1-Year Construction Phase 4-Year Smolt Production (250,000/yr) ?

  5. Program Assumption More Smolts More Adults Actual Result More Smolts Less Adults

  6. Years of SCL Augmented Smolt Production

  7. Actual Implementation Steps & Schedule Year 1 Year 10 Year 20 Year 30 5-Year Implementation Delay 1-Year Design Phase 1-Year Construction Phase 4-Year Smolt Production (250,000/yr) Smolt Production Funds Reprogrammed to Wild Steelhead Research and Restoration Activities

  8. Without Non-Required Licensee Effectiveness Monitoring Several PM&E Programs Would Have Fallen Short Of Mitigation Intent

  9. Program Change Factors • License authority • (build in) • Oversight Committee • Desire (Original Program • Failure) • Resource Policy Change • Science Driven

  10. license adopted fisheries settlement agreement provided the latitude for the oversight committee to modify program objectives and shift funds between programs. • FERC Notification (not approval) is the final step in the modification process Steelhead Smolt Production Program

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