An ISRP/ISAB 2005 report critical of the monitoring of supplementation projects resulted in the formation of a Tribal, Federal, and State led Ad Hoc Supplementation Work Group (AHSWG) that made substantive recommendations for improving supplementation monitoring and evaluation. The final AHSWG report recommendations have not been comprehensively implemented. The FCRPS supplemental BiOp calls to extend the work of the AHSWG.


CRHEET’s deliverable will be a report in 2011 that will include detailed recommendations for:

1) Experimental designs coordinating multiple hatchery evaluation programs to provide critical data on the demographic benefits, fitness impacts, and ecological impacts of hatchery programs.

2) Standardized monitoring metrics and data collection and management protocols to provide the information needed for experimental designs for demographic benefits, fitness impacts, and ecological impacts of hatchery programs.

3) Analytical approaches for research into demographic benefits, fitness impacts, and ecological impacts of hatchery programs.

4) Formation and operation of a basinwide process to implement CRHEET recommendations.

In developing this material, CRHEET will work with the Action Agency/NOAA/NPCC RM&E workgroup and/or another basinwide workgroup to integrate the elements above with existing basin RM&E efforts in a programmatic approach.

This is a long needed project that should help provide higher-level views and analysis of hatchery effectiveness at a landscape scale.

An ISRP/ISAB 2005 report critical of the monitoring of supplementation projects resulted in the formation of a Tribal, Federal, and State led Ad Hoc Supplementation Work Group (AHSWG) that made substantive recommendations for improving supplementation monitoring and evaluation. The final AHSWG report recommendations have not been comprehensively implemented. The FCRPS supplemental BiOp calls to extend the work of the AHSWG. CRHEET’s deliverable will be a report in 2011 that will include detailed recommendations for: 1) Experimental designs coordinating multiple hatchery evaluation programs to provide critical data on the demographic benefits, fitness impacts, and ecological impacts of hatchery programs. 2) Standardized monitoring metrics and data collection and management protocols to provide the information needed for experimental designs for demographic benefits, fitness impacts, and ecological impacts of hatchery programs. 3) Analytical approaches for research into demographic benefits, fitness impacts, and ecological impacts of hatchery programs. 4) Formation and operation of a basinwide process to implement CRHEET recommendations. In developing this material, CRHEET will work with the Action Agency/NOAA/NPCC RM&E workgroup and/or another basinwide workgroup to integrate the elements above with existing basin RM&E efforts in a programmatic approach. This is a long needed project that should help provide higher-level views and analysis of hatchery effectiveness at a landscape scale.