Puget Sound early winter steelhead Draft EIS available for c

[Jeff Nance]

It's time for our voices to be heard. Step up and take the time to send your comments. Tom do you know if there will be anything coming from the CCA on supporting this?

Draft Environmental Impact Statement
for Early Winter Steelhead Hatchery Programs
in Puget Sound

Request for Comments


A draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for early returning winter ("early winter") steelhead hatchery management plans submitted jointly by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Puget Sound treaty tribes is available for public comment. The hatchery plans describe five early winter steelhead hatchery programs, in the Dungeness, Nooksack, Stillaguamish, Skykomish, and Snoqualmie River basins in Puget Sound.

The DEIS provides information for NOAA Fisheries, hatchery operators, and the public about the potential effects, positive and negative, of Puget Sound early winter steelhead hatchery programs on ESA-listed and non-listed fish and wildlife species, their habitats, water, socioeconomics, and environmental justice resources.

Concurrent with this review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), NOAA Fisheries is reviewing hatchery programs under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This NEPA analysis does not indicate whether hatchery programs meet ESA requirements. Rather, this NEPA analysis provides information about the current and anticipated environmental effects of operating the five early winter steelhead hatchery programs under a range of alternatives.

NOAA Fisheries will accept public comments through December 28, 2015, 45-days from the date the Notice of Availability is published in the Federal Register on November 13, 2015.

Comments will be accepted through December 28, 2015

You can access the DEIS and get more information from the NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region website at
http://www.westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov ... eries.html

How to comment

Comments can be submitted electronically by email to EWShatcheriesEIS.wcr@noaa.gov
If you submit comments by email, please include "EWS Hatcheries DEIS" in the subject line.

Written or FAX comments may be submitted to:

William W. Stelle, Jr.
Regional Administrator
NMFS, West Coast Region
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
7600 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115-0070
Fax (206) 526-6426

If you have questions, please contact Steve Leider by email to Steve.Leider@noaa.gov, or phone (360) 753-4650.

NOTE: You have received this notice because you previously commented on or expressed an interest in Puget Sound hatchery programs, or steelhead in particular. If you wish to be removed from this list please click "unsubscribe" below. Thank you.

[Rock]

Got this email the other day and I am also interested in if CCA is going to be doing anything to rally the troops. Want to do my part. Already a CCA member of course.

Rock

[Nelly]

Thanks for posting this up J,
We are talking about the issue this morning to tune in and comment up!