The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June 1, 1978 SEVfcN
Wild S
Fish Get Top
toe
ty
By KEN DURBIN
The Fish and Wilfelife
Commission has adopted a
policy giving wild stocks of
fish "first and highest consid
eration" in its management
programs.
The exact wording has
undergone a gradual meta-
morphosis during the past
several months. It was first
drafted by staff fishery biolo
gists in the Fish and Wildlife
Department, then modified in
several public workshops and
in response to suggestions
received in the mail. Finally,
it was amended slightly again
by the Fish and Wildlife
Commission in adopting it at a
recent meeting in Portland.
As finally passed, the policy
reads like this:
"The protection and en
hancement of wild stocks will
be given first and highest
consideration. Hatchery or
foreign stocks of fish will be
released only where deemed
necessary to provide optimum
benefits from the resource.
Management options in prior
ity order, harvest strategies,
and other constraints will be:
1. Manage exclusively for
wild fish: Harvest will be
regulated to maintain produc
tion potential, genetic integ
rity, and genetic and size
diversity of the fish popula
tions. Extra protection will be
provided depressed stocks
that are being revived.
2. Manage for wild plus
hatchery fish: Harvest will be
regulated so that added fish
ing pressure created by, and
for, hatchery fish does not
significantly reduce future
production of wild fish. Indig
enous stocks will be utilized as
the hatchery product wher
ever practical. Competition
between wild and hatchery
fish will be investigated and
avoided to the extent deemed
practical.
3. Manage exclusively for
hatchery fish: Harvest re
strictions will not be imposed
to protect wild fish popula
tions. Benefits from hatchery
fish will be maximized.
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"The following guidelines
will be followed to carry out
this policy. They will be
implemented to the extent of
available technical know
ledge, funds, manpower, and
cooperation of other public
and private interests:
1. Aquatic and terrestrial
habitat must be actively pro
tected, rehabilitated and
enhanced.
2. Written management
plans will be developed for all
waters of the state. The plans
will identify physical and
biological capacities, limiting
environmental factors, and
the fish management scheme
best suited to each area.
3. Department manage
ment activities that may
create substantial adverse
impact upon wild fish will be
made known and alternatives
explained prior to implement
ation. 4. The Commission will
periodically review progress
in implementing this policy."
The Commission deleted
another guideline which read,
"The Department shall with
in 12 months after this policy
is adopted, establish a mini
mum of three streams, or
portions thereof, to be man
aged exclusively for wild
fish." Members said a short
term goal should not be part
of a long-range policy. But at
the same time, the Commis
sion directed the staff to
present a minimum of three
streams of a quality nature for
wild fish management exclu
sively by the time angling
regulations are set this falL
Wally Hublou, staff biolo
gist in charge of the Depart
ment's fish management pro
gram, indicated the staff
would do this and would
probably also have written
management plans ready by
that time.
The policy was adopted to
put more emphasis on the
management of wild stocks
and to spell out the use of
hatchery fish in relation to
wild fish. It does not mean
hatchery fish programs will
be discontinued or that an
glers will see reductions in
numbers of xish available for
angling.
It does mean there may be
regulation changes on waters
that are selected exclusively
for wild fish management that
would prevent overharvest;
regulations, in other words,
that would balance harvest in
these waters with the capa
city of the individual waters
to produce fish without stock
ing. There will still be waters
which, because they are not
very productive, or where,
because of pollution, habitat
deterioration or other factors,
can no longer support an
adequate wild fish population.
In these waters hatchery fish
may be used in conjunction
with wild stocks. In this case
the hatchery fish would be
used in a way to minimize
impact on wild stocks and
emphasis would still be on
protecting the wild stocks.
Finally, there will still be
waters that simply won't
support wild fish, perhaps
because of excessive water
temperatures late in the sum
mer, low water during a
portion of the year, or other
factors. In these waters hatch
ery fish could still be used to
provide angling during part of
the year.
The policy will mean a shift
in fish management emphasis
and changes in both angling
regulations and management
programs on some, but by no
means all, waters.
. Perhaps one of the policy's
most important features is its
emphasis on habitat Wild fish
management depends entirely
on good habitat Without that
it is impossible to have wild
fish.
Tesch Graduates
Joan D. Tesch, Hermiston,
graduates today (Thursday)
at Ricks College, Rexburg,
Idaho.
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