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spawning channels, 



off-stream rearing habitat, 



acclimation ponds, 



remote site incubators, 



fry, pre-smolt, and emolt stocking, 



addition of woody debris, 



stream fencing, 



riparian vegetation improvements, 



changes in instream flows, 



reduction in streambed sediments, and 



changes in water quality. 



Information ascertained through the ongoing habitat survey will be used to 

 identify highest priority restoration projects. The first of these most 

 dramatic cases will serve as pilot projects, having evaluation built in as an 

 integral part of the project. 



Public and Interagency Involvement 



Public and interagency cooperation is vital to the success of restoration. 

 This requires the active participation of the tribes and agencies named in the 

 Chehalis Act as the Restoration Plan is implemented. Tiese key entities will 

 identify and explore avenues of cooperation with all interested private 

 organizations and agencies not already involved. The public will be invited 

 to a Basin-wide fisheries conference in the fall of 1992 where study findings 

 will be presented and suggestions for restoration priorities sought. 



The FWS recommends that the ChehaliB Basin Steering Conmittee, formed under 

 the Chehalis Basin Fishery Restoration Study Act, be continued to provide 

 policy guidance to the restoration proposed in thiB report. Furthermore, a 

 ChehaliB Basin Fishery Restoration Project Review Team should be formed to 

 strategically plan ChehaliB Basin fisheries restoration and implement all the 

 restoration recommendations detailed below. The Team would be composed of 

 representatives of each relevant agency, tribe, and the public and would meet 

 regularly to review project proposals. Each project proposal would be 

 evaluated for its likelihood to restore fish, cost-effectiveness, co6t-share 

 requirements, and performance evaluation. All proposed habitat and artificial 

 production proposals should be subjected to the planning criterion path 

 presented in the "Salmon 2000" report (Appleby et al. 1992). 



It is also critical that all existing programs designed to protect, restore, 

 and enhance fisheries and their habitat continue to be fully supported and 

 funded. 



RESTORATION OBJECTIVES 



To achieve full restoration, the primary emphasis should be on habitat 

 improvement because state, local, and tribal hatchery projects are already 

 relatively well-developed and state and tribal harvest managers continue to 

 work together to maximize harvest while allowing adequate escapement. 



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