Salmon Plan

 

The Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Partnership developed this Plan to achieve its Vision:


All watersheds in the Washington Coast Region contain healthy, diverse and self-sustaining populations of salmon, maintained by healthy habitats and
ecosystems, which also support the ecological, cultural, social, and economic needs of human communities.

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The Washington Coast Region represents the last best chance for the Pacific Northwest to get it right.
We still have the fish, and we still have the watersheds. What we need is a road map to get us moving in the right direction. This Plan starts that journey. We need to do both: “Protect the Best” and
“Restore the Rest,” the two components of our motto and our outlook.
Does this mean that we have healthy salmon populations? No, it does not. But we have a fighting chance here of returning their habitats and their numbers to something closer to historical health.
Although salmon and steelhead populations in the Washington Coast Region (“Region”) are seriously degraded from historical levels – experts suggest that the current abundance of coastal salmon runs is
probably only about 10% of what it was a hundred years ago – they are healthier than anywhere else in the state.


They are healthier largely because their habitat is more intact than elsewhere. Protecting intact habitat needs to be given a high priority because it is far easier and less expensive to maintain good habitat than
to recreate or restore degraded habitat. Science and common sense strongly suggest that investments made now in the Coast Region can significantly contribute to the successful restoration of wild salmon
populations and will more likely ensure the long-term sustainability of wild salmon than recovery efforts elsewhere.

 

Salmon Plan Documents

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Salmon Species and Status

Chapter 3 - Critical Threats to Salmon Sustainability

Chapter 4 - Visions, Goals, and Objectives

Chapter 5 - Strategies and Actions

Chapter 6 - Implementation, Monitoring, and Adaptive Management

Appendix 1 - Existing Salmon and Habitat Protection plans in the Region

Appendix 2 - WDFW Salmon stock Delineations

Appendix 3 - North American Salmon Stronghold Partnership Ratings

Appendix 4 - PFMC Stock assessment and fishery evaluation

Appendix 5 - WDFW stock assessments

Appendix 6 - Inventory of Coastal hatchery Programs

Appendix 7 - Habitat Viability Charts and Assessments

Appendix 8 - Selected sources used in viability assessments

Appendix 9 - Washington coast region mainstream rivers

Appendix 10 - Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Partnership

Appendix 11 - Importance of the Washington Coast in Salmon recovery

Appendix 12 - Needs assessment

Appendix 14 - Planning process and analyses

Appendix 15 - Public Comments

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