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Title: Sherman Creek Hatchery; Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Fish Program, 2000 Annual Report.

Abstract

The Sherman Creek Hatchery (SCH) was designed to rear 1.7 million kokanee fry for acclimation and imprinting during the spring and early summer. Additionally, it was designed to trap all available returning adult kokanee during the fall for broodstock operations and evaluations. Since the start of this program, the operations on Lake Roosevelt have been modified to better achieve program goals. These strategic changes have been the result of recommendations through the Lake Roosevelt Hatcheries Coordination Team (LRHCT) and were done to enhance imprinting, improve survival and operate the two kokanee facilities more effectively. The primary changes have been to replace the kokanee fingerling program with a yearling (post smolt) program of up to 1,000,000 fish. To construct and operate twenty net pens to handle the increased production. The second significant change was to rear 200,000 rainbow trout fingerling at SCH from July through October, for stocking into the volunteer net pens. This enables the Spokane Tribal Hatchery (STH) to rear additional kokanee to further the enhancement efforts on Lake Roosevelt. Monitoring and evaluation is preformed by the Lake Roosevelt Fisheries Monitoring Program. From 1988 to 1998, the principle sport fishery on Lake Roosevelt has shifted from walleye to includemore » rainbow trout and kokanee salmon (Underwood et al. 1997, Tilson and Scholz 1997). The angler use, harvest rates for rainbow and kokanee and the economic value of the fishery has increased substantially during this 10-year period. The most recent information from the monitoring program also suggests that the hatchery and net pen rearing programs have been beneficial to enhancing the Lake Roosevelt fishery while not negatively impacting wild and native stocks within the lake.« less

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Kettle Falls, WA
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Kettle Falls, WA
Sponsoring Org.:
United States. Bonneville Power Administration . Division of Fish and Wildlife.
OSTI Identifier:
812352
Report Number(s):
DOE/BP-00004291-1
R&D Project: 199104700; TRN: US0303366
DOE Contract Number:  
00004291
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1 Mar 2001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
13 HYDRO ENERGY; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ADULTS; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; FISHERIES; LAKES; MONITORING; PRODUCTION; REARING; RECOMMENDATIONS; SALMON; STREAMS; TROUT; BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION; Kokanee salmon - Washington (State); Fishery management - Washington (State); Sherman Creek Hatchery (Wash.)

Citation Formats

Combs, Mitch. Sherman Creek Hatchery; Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Fish Program, 2000 Annual Report.. United States: N. p., 2001. Web. doi:10.2172/812352.
Combs, Mitch. Sherman Creek Hatchery; Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Fish Program, 2000 Annual Report.. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/812352
Combs, Mitch. 2001. "Sherman Creek Hatchery; Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Fish Program, 2000 Annual Report.". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/812352. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/812352.
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title = {Sherman Creek Hatchery; Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Fish Program, 2000 Annual Report.},
author = {Combs, Mitch},
abstractNote = {The Sherman Creek Hatchery (SCH) was designed to rear 1.7 million kokanee fry for acclimation and imprinting during the spring and early summer. Additionally, it was designed to trap all available returning adult kokanee during the fall for broodstock operations and evaluations. Since the start of this program, the operations on Lake Roosevelt have been modified to better achieve program goals. These strategic changes have been the result of recommendations through the Lake Roosevelt Hatcheries Coordination Team (LRHCT) and were done to enhance imprinting, improve survival and operate the two kokanee facilities more effectively. The primary changes have been to replace the kokanee fingerling program with a yearling (post smolt) program of up to 1,000,000 fish. To construct and operate twenty net pens to handle the increased production. The second significant change was to rear 200,000 rainbow trout fingerling at SCH from July through October, for stocking into the volunteer net pens. This enables the Spokane Tribal Hatchery (STH) to rear additional kokanee to further the enhancement efforts on Lake Roosevelt. Monitoring and evaluation is preformed by the Lake Roosevelt Fisheries Monitoring Program. From 1988 to 1998, the principle sport fishery on Lake Roosevelt has shifted from walleye to include rainbow trout and kokanee salmon (Underwood et al. 1997, Tilson and Scholz 1997). The angler use, harvest rates for rainbow and kokanee and the economic value of the fishery has increased substantially during this 10-year period. The most recent information from the monitoring program also suggests that the hatchery and net pen rearing programs have been beneficial to enhancing the Lake Roosevelt fishery while not negatively impacting wild and native stocks within the lake.},
doi = {10.2172/812352},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/812352}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2001},
month = {Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2001}
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