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The Nation's fisheries management goals are: 



1. Protect and enhance the Quinault Indian Nation fisheries resources. 



2. Protect and enhance the self-regulatory capabilities of the Quinault 

 Indian Nation. 



3. Protect and enhance the fisheries of the Quinault Indian Nation. 



Several fisheries operate within the Nation's usual and accustomed fishing 

 area. River fisheries are managed cooperatively between the State of 

 Washington and the Nation. Marine fisheries are negotiated with the Pacific 

 Fisheries Management Council, the International Halibut Commission and the 

 Pacific Salmon Commission. Management authority rests with the Fisheries 

 Manager, the Quinault Fish and Game Commission and three fish committees, one 

 each for the Queets River, the Quinault River and Grays Harbor (off- 

 reservation) . Technical expertise is provided to the management authorities 

 by the staff of the Quinault Fisheries Division, part of the Nation's 

 Department of Natural Resources. 



The Fisheries Division is comprised of 25 full-time and up to 20 seasonal 

 staff. The division is divided into three sections; harvest management, 

 technical services, and resource enhancement. Harvest management staff are 

 responsible for analyzing catch and tag data, modeling runs, determining 

 harvest options, and reporting to regional data management centers. Technical 

 services activities include catch monitoring, bio-sampling, spawning 

 escapement estimation, juvenile assessment, tagging projects and wild stock 

 supplementation efforts. Resource enhancement covers a wide range of fish 

 culture work including broodstock capture, spawning, incubation, rearing, 

 tagging, feeding, and caring for cultured fish. 



Chehalis Indian Tribe 



The Chehalis Tribe's goal is to promote the economic welfare of its individual 

 members and the Tribe as a whole through tribal commercial fishing and other 

 tribal businesses (Gene Deschamps, Chehalis Tribe, pers. coram. ) . Since the 

 formation of the Reservation, Federal law has recognized the Chehalis Tribal 

 right to fish on the Reservation. However, the Tribe has claimed it should be 

 allowed to fish the Chehalis River off-reservation. This was denied in a 

 recent court decision, which the Tribe appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court. 

 Until resolved, the Tribe confines its fishing to the Reservation. A decision 

 favoring the Tribe would lead to a guaranteed harvest share and expand the 

 Tribe's fishing area. 



The number of harvestable fish available to the Tribe presently depends 

 largely on negotiations between the State and the Quinault Nation. Chehalis 

 tribal fisheries are managed under pre-season catch quotas annually set by 

 written agreements between WDF, WDW, and the Quinault Nation, based on 

 modeling of predicted run sizes. 



The Tribe has not been able to harvest many hatchery fish in the Chehalis 



