Hatcheries Fish Production Planning:
Future Brood Document

Annual pre-season hatchery production plans for the upcoming brood year
Prepared by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

SUMMARY

The Future Brood Document (FBD) is a pre-season planning document for fish hatchery production in Washington State for the upcoming brood stock collection and fish rearing season (July 1 – June 30). The FBD is coordinated between WDFW, the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC) representing Puget Sound and coastal treaty tribes, eastern Washington treaty tribes, and Federal fish hatcheries. Hatchery production by volunteers, schools, and Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups are represented by WDFW.

The purpose of the document is to detail agreed to production goals and plans for hatcheries. The document represents goals for egg-takes, transfers, and releases. Due to various conditions affecting returning anadromous salmon and steelhead, these goals are not always achieved and may be altered in-season. After agreement, the FBD become the Current Brood Document (CBD), sometimes referred to as the Equilibrium Brood Document. Changes made in-season are processed through an in-season change form and may be either permanent or one-time only.

The FBD was developed to meet several requirements, not limited to:

• Legal Constraints
• Mitigative Obligations
• WDFW Goals and Objectives
• Hatchery Scientific Review Group Recommendations
• Hatchery Genetic Management Plans (HGMP)
• Benefit Risk Assessment Process (BRAP)
• Salmonid Disease Control Policy of the Fisheries Co-managers of Washington State
• Final Joint WDFW/Tribal Wild Salmonid Policy

The final document is produced annually each July, with draft documents distributed for review and proposals in January and May. Throughout the FBD draft process fisheries co-managers have input on change form processes, updated hatchery escapement needs, egg requests, production plans and proposed transfer of eggs and fry.

The production areas are Puget Sound including Hood Canal, Washington Coast, Columbia River, and Marine Sites.

The following list explains the various sorts of the Future Brood Document. Due to updates to the database, sites may not appear in the correct region. If you cannot find a particular program, check in the All Alpha file, as it contains all programs statewide included in the database regardless of location. Each Adobe (pdf) file also contains bookmarks for each facility by alphabetic order.

2008 Future Brood Document - 1st Draft

• Alphabetic list of all facilities statewide (1005 pages)

• Alphabetic list of facilities in the Columbia basin (383 pages)

• Alphabetic list of coastal facilities (212 pages)

• Alphabetic list of Puget Sound/Straits facilities (402 pages)

• Alphabetic list of Cooperative Group facilities (272 pages)

• Alphabetic list of facilities in WDFW Region 1 ((82 pages)
• Alphabetic list of facilities in WDFW Region 2 (99 pages)
• Alphabetic list of facilities in WDFW Region 3 (20 pages)
• Alphabetic list of facilities in WDFW Region 4 (196 pages)
• Alphabetic list of facilities in WDFW Region 5 (208 pages)
• Alphabetic list of facilities in WDFW Region 6 (392 pages)

• Alphabetic list of most marine net pen sites (27 pages)

• Alphabetic list of chinook programs statewide (196 pages)
• Alphabetic list of chum program statewide (65 pages)
• Alphabetic list of coho programs statewide (253 pages)
• Alphabetic list of kokanee programs statewide (25 pages)
• Alphabetic list of sockeye programs statewide (10 pages)
• Alphabetic list of steelhead program statewide (215 pages)