Artificial Production Review Committee Sep 14, 1998 handout by Bob Tuck

Prepared by Bob Tuck

Specific Regional Policy Issues Include:

Development and enforcement of a comprehensive, regional policy concerning the use of artificial production.
Develop a regional consensus concerning expectations of artificial production: replacement of natural production for fisheries; supplementation; conservation of ESA listed stocks.
Develop a regional wild salmonid policy, sub-basin by sub-basin.
Develop a regional genetics policy.
Develop a comprehensive, regional hatchery operations policy.
Region needs to develop the ability to mold bureaucratic infrastructure to serve the biological needs of the resource, and the policies adopted by the region, rather than the other way around.
Region needs a stable, long-term funding commitment to implement regional artificial production policy.
Artificial production decisions need to be based on long-term policies adopted by the region, and not on temporary political trends.
Research needs to continue on better nutrition, better pathology techniques, and better rearing methods to improve survival of juveniles after release.
Evaluations of hatchery managers need to be revised to reflect success or failure of meeting specific goals at artificial production facilities, not on numbers of pounds.