There are three documents:
- 2-page Overarching Policies that refers to the Lower Columbia Salmon Recovery Plan and includes definitions to understand the production alternatives.
- 3-page Hatchery Program Alternatives for lower-river spring & fall Chinook, coho, steelhead and cutthroat; and upper-river coho and winter steelhead.
- 2-page Public Questionnaire to assist in expressing comments and preferences about the hatchery production alternatives. The deadline for responding to the questionnaire has passed. All those received will be posted on this site by mid-December. Click here for questionnaire results.
There are eight audio files (in order of their presentation at the meeting):
- Background info by Mark LaRiviere, Tacoma Power. [9:37]
- Background info by Pat Frazier, WDF&W. [23:10]
- Questions & Answers including explanation of the 650,000-pound maximum for hatchery releases. [25:37]
- Lower-river spring Chinook production alternatives. [6:34]
- Lower-river fall Chinook production alternatives. [6:01]
- Lower-river coho production alternatives. [3:49]
- Lower-river steelhead & cutthroat production alternatives. [24:36]
- Upper-river coho and winter steelhead production alternatives. 6:06]
Also, the following two documents are answers to questions that were not fully answered at a public meeting December 2, 2008 in Morton where there was considerable discussion about surplus hatchery coho.