The Sherman Creek Hatchery (SCH) is one of two kokanee facilities provided to partially mitigate for the loss of anadromous and resident fish due to the construction of Columbia River mainstem dams.  It is located immediately adjacent to Lake Roosevelt at the mouth of Sherman Creek.  This is three miles west of Kettle Falls, Washington and 101 miles upstream from Grand Coulee Dam. SCH consisting of three large concrete raceways and support facilities was constructed in 1991, and became operational in April 1992 with first releases later that year. In 1999 SCH added twenty net pens at river mile 699 to facilitate increased rearing capabilities on Lake Roosevelt.  Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) constructed the Hatchery.  Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) performs annual operations and maintenance with funding provided by BPA.  In 1991 BPA and WDFW entered into a non-discretionary 25-year Memorandum of Agreement to fund the operations and maintenance.  Current operations include use of native / indigenous stocks for propagation into Upper Columbia River Basin Waters.  These include wild redband rainbow trout supplied from the Colville Trout Hatchery and native Kootenay Lake kokanee salmon from the Freshwater Fisheries Society of British Columbia.

The intent of this project is to continue working with the Lake Roosevelt artificial production projects to provide readily accessible sport and Tribal subsistence fisheries that are compatible and beneficial to the ecological conditions in Lake Roosevelt and Banks Lake (Grand Coulee Dam impoundments).  Artificial production has been determined a feasible method for sustaining viable fisheries in Lake Roosevelt and Banks Lake.  The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Spokane Tribe, Colville Confederated Tribes and Lake Roosevelt Development Association/Lake Roosevelt Volunteer Net Pen Project are cooperating in a comprehensive artificial production program to produce kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) for annual releases into the project area.  The program consists of the Spokane Tribal Hatchery, Sherman Creek Hatchery, Ford Trout Hatchery and Lake Roosevelt Rainbow Trout Net Pen Rearing Projects.  The Lake Roosevelt and Banks Lake Fisheries Evaluation Programs monitor and evaluates release strategies and production methods for the aforementioned projects.  Between 1985 and 2005 the projects have collectively produced up to 800,000 rainbow trout and 4 million kokanee salmon for release into Lake Roosevelt and 1.4 million kokanee fry for Banks Lake.  The current (2006) annual release goal includes 4.3 million kokanee fry, 475,000 kokanee yearlings and 750,000 rainbow trout yearlings for the project area.  This project is funded by the Bonneville Power Administration under directives by the Northwest Power Planning Councils Columbia River Basin Fish & Wildlife Program, Resident Fish Substitution Measures, 1987 to current (Subbasin Plan), as partial mitigation for anadromous and resident fish losses in the blocked areas above Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee Dams.