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Chapter 6: FEDERAL, STATE, TRIBAL. AND LOCAL 

 GOVERNMENT ROLES AND RELATIONSHD? TO PRIVATE 

 FISHERY CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES 



FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 



U.S. Department of the Interior, Fiah and Wildlife Service 



The Fish and Wildlife Service is part of the Department of the Interior. The 

 Service is divided for moat operational functions into seven geographical 

 regions. Region One, with its office in Portland, Oregon, covers Washington, 

 Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, and Hawaii. Region Eight, having nationwide 

 coverage, conducts basic research for the Fish and Wildlife Service. 



Portland Regional Office 



The Portland Regional Office administers all Service activities in Region One 

 except basic research. Of concern in the Chehalis Basin, are Fisheries and 

 Federal Aid, Fish and Wildlife Enhancement, and Refuges and Wildlife programs. 



Fisheries and Federal Aid 



The Assistant Regional Director for Fisheries and Federal Aid has two primary 

 responsibilities. The Division of Federal Aid is responsible for funding 

 state programs to increase sport fish populations and sport fishing access 

 through federal taxes on sport fishing equipment and motor boat gasoline and 

 oil. The Washington Departments of Fisheries and Wildlife receive 

 approximately equal federal funding and have programs in the Chehalis Basin 

 (Jerry Davis, FWS, pers. comm. ) . 



Through the Division of Fisheries, FWS plays an important role in restoring 

 depleted fish stocks of national, interjurisdictional significance, in this 

 case the Pacific salmon. The Western Washington Fishery Resource Office 

 (WWFRO) in Olympia conducts applied fishery research and planning to restore 

 depleted salmonid stocks, evaluate programs of National Fish Hatcheries, and 

 help determine the effects of the Pacific Salmon Treaty on local stocks. In 

 the early 1980s, WWFRO assessed the status of Chehalis spring Chinook. 

 Recently, WWFRO has taken the lead responsibility to satisfy the requirements 

 of the Chehalis Basin Fisheries Resource Restoration Study Act. 



There are no National Fish Hatcheries in the Chehalis Basin. In the recent 

 past, winter steelhead smolts from Ouinault National Fish Hatchery were 

 released into the Humptulips River, but production has been transferred to the 

 Humptulips Hatchery. 



The Olympia Fish Health Center has performed fish health certification and 

 diagnostic services for Sea Farms of Washington, Global Aqua, and Swecker's 

 Sea Farms on the Black River (Kim True, OFHC, pers. comm.). 



