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vene that will help in the restoration of wild fish. And this is to 

 answer the committee's specific questions that they have on how to 

 do this. We are just in the process of completing this month the 

 state-of-the-art facility at Lilliwaup on Hood Canal, and this is a 

 project done in cooperation with state and Federal fishery agencies 

 and the Indian nations, and it is to be a captive broodstock facility 

 where you take a stock of wild fish that could potentially be listed 

 as threatened or endangered. 



And an example I would give would be the Dungeness River 

 which flows into the straits in Washington State where you have 

 only about 100 to 200 returning spawning adult chinook fish. And 

 if somebody filed a petition on those fish, they would stand a good 

 chance of getting listed. Through the concept of captive broodstock 

 wherein you would go in and you would take eggs out of 25 reds or 

 try to get 25 families of fish, you would take eggs out of their reds 

 or nests in the river, the Department of Fisheries has developed a 

 technique to take 300 to 400 eggs out of each red. 



We would take those fish back into a hatchery situation, and you 

 would raise them to sexual maturity in captivity. Some would be in 

 freshwater, some would be in salt water to have a comparison of 

 survival between the two. The reason for doing this is that with a 

 small number of fish, at the end of four years you could potentially 

 have a couple of million eggs that you could put back into the 

 native river system. And this is a far, far higher survival than the 

 wild fish could ever hope to achieve when their numbers are that 

 low. This is an experimental project. It is being overseen by scien- 

 tists of the agencies and the tribes, but this is one of the projects 

 we have underway. 



The second project is a supplementation project down in the 

 Grays Harbor area where we have rivers that only reach their 

 minimum escapement numbers of spawning fish three times in the 

 last 20 years. We went in there with the local community people. 

 We captured wild adult fish. We put the eggs into a hatchery 

 system, raised them with the far greater level of survival that you 

 get than in the wild, and then again put them back into their 

 native river system. This year in three different rivers, we had 

 major returns of wild fish down in the Chehalis Basin working 

 with what is called the Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force, and 

 we had tagged fish that did return, and most of them spawned nat- 

 urally in the river which is a clear indicator that this program can 

 work. 



A third area that we are working with is we have taken a pri- 

 vate hatchery, developed a private hatchery up in the San Juan Is- 

 lands of Washington State where you have a water source, a spring 

 that never had any fish in it at all. We developed a series of ponds. 

 We initially got some stock from the Washington Department of 

 Fisheries and developed a run of chinook salmon that now returns 

 back into the bay itself 5,000 to 6,000 adult fish averaging 20 

 pounds apiece. These fish do not conflict with the wild fish. They 

 came from a water source that had no wild fish. There are very 

 few wild fish that come into the bay. There are none that spavvn 

 there. Those that come in are just wandering in from somewhere 

 else. 



