Recovery Implementation Technical Team and Technical Recovery Teams:
Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula

There are two active technical recovery teams in the Puget Sound domain: the Puget Sound Steelhead Technical Recovery Team (PSSTRT), and the Puget Sound Recovery Implementation Technical Team (PSRITT). Both teams work in coordination with the Pacific Northwest Recovery Implementation Science Team (RIST). The PSSTRT is tasked with identifying population structure and developing biological viability criteria for Puget Sound steelhead. The PSRITT is providing recovery implementation technical support for Puget Sound Chinook and steelhead, Hood Canal summer chum, and Lake Ozette sockeye. The PSRITT also works closely with the Puget Sound Partnership. The original Puget Sound salmon TRT was formed in April of 2000, and was phased out in early 2008 with the formation of the PSRITT. Documents from all three technical teams are or will be available on this page.

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Documents

• Ozette sockeye viability. PS TRT draft for public review (pdf)


• Ozette sockeye population identification. PS TRT draft for public review (pdf)
  
  For any accessibility issues with the above documents, please contact Norma Sands. 206-860-5607


• 2006 Ecological Integrity of Chinook Salmon Watersheds in Puget Sound


• Puget Sound Technical Recovery Team (TRT) Review Comments on May 2005 Salmon Recovery Plans


• Draft 2007 Hood Canal summer chum ESU population dentification and viability document


• Independent populations of chinook salmon in Puget Sound. A Puget Sound TRT Final (pdf)


• Watershed assessment guidance document (pdf)


• 2002 Puget Sound chinook population and ESU criteria (pdf)

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Meetings

PSSTRT and PSRITT meetings are open to the public; however there will be very limited opportunity for the public to provide feedback during the meetings. For locations and times of meetings, or questions about recovery planning in general, send email to Jeff.Hard@noaa.gov (PSSTRT) or Norma.Sands@noaa.gov (PSRITT).

• The next two meetings of the PS RITT will be August 21 and September 18, 10am-3pm, Seattle, exact location to be determined.
• The first meeting of the PSS TRT will be March 18, 10am-4pm at Montlake 370W

Meeting Notes

• PSS TRT from June 19th
• PSS TRT from May 28th
• RITT from June 23rd
• PS RITT from May 19
• PSS TRT from March 18th
• PSS TRT from April 28th
• PS RITT from April 25
• PS RITT from March 17th

Archived Puget Sound salmon TRT meeting agendas and notes

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Members & Affiliations

Puget Sound Steelhead TRT

George Pess	Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Bob Hayman	Skagit River System Cooperative
Jeff Hard	Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Robert Kope	Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Ed Connor	Seattle City Light, Environmental Affairs Division
Anne Marshall	Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Jim Myers	Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Gino Lucchetti	King County Dept. of Natural Resources and Parks
Brad Thompson	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Puget Sound Recovery Implementation Technical Team

Eric Beamer	Skagit River System Cooperative
Phil Roni	Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Kirk Lakey	Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Ken Currens	Northwest Indian Fish Commission
Kit Rawson	Tulalip Natural Resources
Mary Ruckelshaus	Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Norma Sands	Northwest Fisheries Science Center
William Graeber	Washington Department of Natural Resources, ret.

Puget Sound salmon TRT (2000-2007)

Ken Currens - Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

Jim Doyle - USFS, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

Bob Fuerstenburg - King County Department of Natural Resources

Bill Graeber - Washington Department of Natural Resources

Kit Rawson - Tulalip Tribes

Mary Ruckelshaus - NMFS, Northwest Fisheries Science Center

Norma Sands - NMFS, Northwest Fisheries Science Center

Jim Scott - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

last modified 07/24/2008