Hatchery and Harvest Priorities
Strategies for Recovery
The recovery plan proposes actions to reduce or mitigate the limiting factors and threats
to steelhead survival throughout the life cycle:
- Tributary Habitat: Protect highest quality habitats, maintain
existing unimpaired healthy watersheds, and restore habitat conditions
through passive and active measures.
- Hydrosystem: Improve juvenile and adult steelhead migratory
passage and survival in the Federal Columbia River Power System.
- Hatcheries: Improve hatchery management to minimize impacts
of hatchery fish on naturally produced steelhead. Supplement natural
production where appropriate.
- Predation: Reduce predation on steelhead in the Columbia
River and estuary.
- Harvest: Maintain low-impact fisheries, increase harvest
of hatchery strays.
- Coordination: Coordinate research and planning within
the range of the Middle Columbia River steelhead.
The Middle Columbia Salmon Recovery Region is located in central Washington along the
east slope of the Cascade Mountains. Forests and farms dominate the diverse
terrain and dry, shrub-steppe hills that cover most of the region. It includes the
Columbia River and its tributaries entering from the west and north from the Yakima
River to the Big White Salmon River.
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