Salmonid Restoration Federation
Fisheries Restoration: Planning for Resilience
March 11 - 14, 2015
Santa Rosa, California

Captive Broodstock Symposium and Warm Springs Hatchery Tour

12 March 2015

Workshop Coordinator: 
Erick Sturm, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center

This workshop covered a range of topics required to run a captive broodstock program regardless of what species is being cultured including state and federal regulations and permitting processes of captive broodstock programs, genetic issues of rearing and spawning multiple generations in captivity, funding issues, using captive broodstock progeny for research to help restore the species, monitoring all life stages of the broodstock progeny once released to the wild, and issues that arise in normal day to day operations.  Presentations were followed by a panel discussion and tour of the Warm Springs Coho Salmon Captive Broodstock hatchery on Lake Sonoma.

Putting the Red Back in Redfish Lake – Twenty Years of Captive Broodstock Progress Towards Saving the Pacific Northewest’s Most Endangered Population of Salmon
Thomas A. Flagg, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northewest Fisheries Science Center

A Regional Approach to Captive Rearing in Support of Recovery Objective in the Northern CCC Coho Salmon ESU
Robert Coey, NOAA Fisheries and Manfred Kittel, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Using a Captive Broodstock Program to Assist in the Recovery of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) South of the Golden Gate
Erick Sturm, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center

Genetic Broodstock Management of Endangered Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch): a Tale of Two Conservation Hatchery Programs
Elizabeth A. Gilbert-Horvath, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center

Managing Precocious Maturation in Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Captive Broodstock for the San Joaquin River Restoration Program
Paul Adelizi, California Department of Fish and Wildlife

Evaluating Effects of Release Timing on Subsequent Movement and Marine Survival of Coho Salmon Smolts from the Big Creek Captive Rearing Program
Brian Spence, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center

Monitoring Coho Salmon in the Russian River as Part of the Russian River Coho Salmon Captive Broodstock Program
Nick Bauer, CA Sea Grant and UC Cooperative Extension

A Closer Look at the Release Strategies of a Captive Broodstock Program
Rory W. Taylor, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Warm Springs Hatchery