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threatened gene pools until factors limiting their 

 survival are addressed. 



. Our Wishkah/Wynoochee River project, near Grays Harbor, 

 focuses on how to supplement wild fish populations in 

 logged areas until they can re-establish themselves 

 through natural spawning, and creating new spawning and 

 rearing habitat. 



. Our project on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands, 



demonstrates how hatchery salmon stocks can be totally 

 separated from wild stocks, thus allowing fisheries 

 that don't conflict with wild fish. 



Let me elaborate on these projects: 



1. HOOD CANAL WILD COHO RESTORATION 



LLTK's Wild salmon facility at LiUiwaup, Washington, will 

 be completed this month. It is a "state of the art" 

 hatchery and rearing facility built with $600,00 of private 

 funds from foundations, corporations and individuals. 



The project is a cooperative effort between LLTK, the 

 National Marine Fisheries Service, the Washington Department 

 of Fisheries, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Point 

 No Point Treaty Council, the Skokomish Indian Nation and the 

 Hood Canal Regional Salmon Enhancement Group. 



This facility will be a "captive broodstock" site for Hood 

 Canal's wild Coho salmon. These stocks were so depleted 

 last year they caused an unprecedented two month's fishing 

 closure. A small number of eggs and fry from wild salmon 

 will be captured in Hood Canal Rivers and reared at 

 Lilliwaup. They will be held in captivity in freshwater 

 until sexual maturity. Some fish will also be reared in 

 saltwater net pens for comparison of survival. The eggs and 

 progeny from these fish will then be placed back into their 

 native rivers, thus dramatically increasing the number of 

 juvenile fish going out to the ocean. 



A series of techniques will be used to learn how best to re- 

 introduce the juvenile fish back into the rivers. This 

 project offers the opportunity of restoring depleted wild 

 fish faster than any other method and will be usable 

 throughout the Northwest. 



In addition, two spring fed streams that flow through the 

 hatchery have had weirs and spawning gravel added to 

 increase natural spawning areas for wild fish. This fall 



