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Port of Orayc Harbor 



The Port exists to promote trade and commerce within Grays Harbor County 

 (GHRPC 1992). The Port manages all shipping traffic in the Harbor and co- 

 sponBored the recent widening and deepening of the navigation channel. The 

 Port is interested in increasing tourism though enhanced fishing opportunities 

 so manages coho netpene at Aberdeen, Westport, and Ocean Shores. 



PRIVATE FISHERY CONSERVATION AND HANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES 



Chshalu Basin Fishery Task Pore* 



The CBFTF, formerly the Grays Harbor Fishery Enhancement Task Force, is a non- 

 profit, non-partisan group of fishery, business, and community leaders allied 

 to enhance salmon, steel head, and sea-run cutthroat trout resources, and to 

 restore habitat critical to these species, in the Chehalis River Basin (CBFTF 

 1991), It sees its role as identifying fishery enhancement and habitat 

 restoration projects, soliciting grants and donations, matching projects with 

 appropriate funding, enlisting community support to maintain projects, and 

 fostering mutual support among fishery user groups. The Task Force is one of 

 12 regional fishery enhancement groups statewide partially funded under the 

 WDF Regional Salmon Enhancement Program. The Task Force supported 11 fish 

 rearing projects (four major hatchery operations, three smolt rearing 

 stations, and four fry hatching stations) and one cooperative educational 

 effort in 1992 (CBFTF 1992). 



Long Live the Kings 



Long Live the Kings (LLTK) works toward restoring Chinook salmon runs on 

 streams with depleted natural production, and specializes in rapidly 

 mobilizing support and resources for new fish culture programs. LLTK sponsors 

 a fall chinook hatchery program on the Wishkah River, in coordination with 

 CBFTF. LLTK is trying to rebuild wild stocks using short-term artificial 

 enhancement of wild brood stocks. 



Black River Hatch 



This citizen group monitors water quality in the Black River and thus 

 forestall fish kills such as occurred in September of 1989. It is supported 

 and guided largely by the Thurston County Department of Environmental Health, 

 The Chehalis Indian Tribe, and several of the commercial trout farms in the 

 Black River watershed. 



Trout Unlimited 



Trout a nationwide sport fishing group whose Grays Harbor Chapter works with 

 the CBFTF in supporting three major fish rearing projects: fall chinook, 

 coho, and chum salmon at the Satsop Springs ponds on the East Fork Satsop; 



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