Here you'll find all the information provided at the October 29, 2009 public meeting in Centralia regarding alternatives for Cowlitz hatchery production being considered for the 2010 Fisheries & Hatchery Management Plan Update.

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):

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.