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NOAA-NMFS-NWFSC TM-32: Chum Status Review

Appendix 1. Summary of chum salmon artificial production outplants (eggs and unfed fry, and fed fry) in Washington waters - 1952-93. SASSI designation and the total hatchery and stock status, with the year(s) in which hatchery plants occurred, the origin of the hatchery stock, life stage at out-planning plants occurring by stream within each SASSI stock area. Data provided by H. Fuss and T. Tynan, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, P.O. Box 43151, Olympia, WA 98504. Pers. Commun., April 1997.

 
SASSI Stock SASSI Designation SASSI Status Years Planted with Local Stocks Years Planted with Non-Local Stocks Life Stage @ Planting # Released
(All Years)
Local  Non-Local		 Total Broodstock source/Comments
N F Nooksack native/wild healthy              
Anderson Creek     1985   fed fry 40,000   40,000  
Kendall Creek     1979,81,85-93 1978,80 fed fry 3,830,865 3,186,000 7,016,865 Hood Canal, Skykomish Stocks comprised non-local plants.
Ten Mile Creek     1982   fed fry 32,288   32,288  
Main/S F Nooksack   unknown              
Baker Creek       1988,89,90 25% unfed fry; 75% eggs   383,300 383,300 Whatcom Creek Stock
Nooksack River native/wild     1953 all unfed fry   602,150 602,150 Samish Stock
Rutsatz Slough       1978,93 52% eggs, 48% unfed fry 118,000   118,000 Nooksack Stock
Main/S F Nooksack native/wild unknown              
Baker Creek     1982,83,85   fed fry 245,000   245,000  
Bertrand Creek     1986   fed fry 60,000   60,000  
Deer Creek     1982   fed fry 7,680   7,680  
Double Ditch     1982   fed fry 15,360   15,360  
Fishtrap Creek     1982,91   fed fry 35,360   35,360  
SASSI Stock SASSI Designation SASSI Status Years Planted with Local Stocks Years Planted with Non-Local Stocks Life Stage @ Planting # Released
(All Years)
Local  Non-Local		 Total Broodstock source/Comments
Kamm Ditch     1982   fed fry 20,000   20,000  
McCauley Creek     1985   fed fry 20,000   20,000  
Nooksack River     1983,90 1953 fed fry 994,700 338,844 1,333,544 Samish Stock planted one year.
Rutsatz Slough     1979,82,83,85,86, 88,91   fed fry 2,401,202   2,401,202  
S F Nooksack     1976   fed fry 242,529   242,529  
Samish/Independent   unknown              
Beaverton Valley not in SASSI     1976,77,79, 80,91 all unfed fry   1,705,500 1,705,500 Nooksack, George Adams and "unknown" stocks; no indigenous run.
Bob Smith Creek mixed/ composite   1991 1992 100% eggs 195,795 247,000 442,795 Whatcom Creek Stock
Chuckanut Creek mixed/ composite     1977,79,80, 81,90, 91 all unfed fry   989,750 989,750 unknown + Samish Stock, Hood Canal, Whatcom Creek
Clearbrook Inn       1993 unfed fry   13,251 13,251 Cowling Creek
Colony Creek mixed/ composite   1990,91 1954 85% unfed fry, 15% eggs 245,800 227,160 472,960 Samish Stock
Dakota Creek mixed/ composite     1976 all unfed fry   61,810 61,810 unknown stock
Eldridge Spring       1991 all unfed fry   103,200 103,200 Whatcom Creek Stock
Fragrance Creek       1988 all unfed fry   97,000 97,000 Whatcom Creek Stock
Friday Creek     1954,56,65,67 1986 all unfed fry 126,210 200,000 326,210 Whatcom Creek + Samish Stock
False Bay Creek     1989,92   eggs 292,300   292,300 Whatcom Creek
Oyster Creek mixed/ composite     1976,77,78, 79,80 all unfed fry 321,000 243,225 564,225 Hood Canal Stock
Padden Creek mixed/ composite     1988-91 64% unfed fry   625,100 625,100 Whatcom Creek Stock
Parsons Creek       1993 all unfed fry   362,500 362,500 Samish Stock
SASSI Stock SASSI Designation SASSI Status Years Planted with Local Stocks Years Planted with Non-Local Stocks Life Stage @ Planting # Released
(All Years)
Local  Non-Local		 Total Broodstock source/Comments
Samish River mixed/ composite   1952,61,92 1961,65 80% unfed fry; 20% eggs 361,232 79,200 440,432 Samish Stock
Smith Creek     1990 1985,86,88, 89,93 82% eggs, 18% fry 50,000 229,000 279,000 Nooksack, Whatcom Creek
Whitehall Creek     1991 1979,81 all unfed fry 187,500 210,000 397,500 Hood Canal Stock
Samish/ Independent mixed/ composite unknown              
Beaverton Valley       1973,78,88 fed fry   659,100 659,100 unknown, Whatcom Creek stocks comprised non-local plants.
Blaine Reservoir       1978,82,83 fed fry   792,000 792,000 unknown, Nooksack stocks comprised non-local plants.
Bob Smith Creek     1993   fed fry 197,900   197,900  
Bowmans Bay       1952,55,57 fed fry   320,560 320,560 Samish non-local stock planted.
Chuckanut Bay     1985   fed fry 85,000   85,000  
Chuckanut Creek     1983,85 1978 fed fry 500,000 86,250 586,250 "unknown" assumed non-local plant.
Colony Creek     1983,88   fed fry 22,500   22,500  
Dakota Creek       1979,80 fed fry   1,488,000 1,488,000 Hood Canal Stock
Friday Creek     1978,79,85,87-89, 91 1973,74,90 fed fry 2,953,573 3,996,400 6,949,973 Hood Canal, Quilcene, Whatcom Creek
Lummi Bay     1979,81-83,87-93 1974-80,82, 88 fed fry 6,312,772 8,759,442 15,072,214 Quilcene, Whatcom Creek, Hood Canal
Oyster Creek     1983   fed fry 15,000   15,000  
Samish River     1952,55,57,58,59, 60,62-64 1959,63 fed fry 5,231,242 1,923,709 7,154,951 "unknown" assumed non-local plant.
Squalicum     1993   fed fry 99,191   99,191  
Squalicum Creek     1988 1982,85,87 fed fry 2,000 60,075 62,075  
 
SASSI Stock SASSI Designation SASSI Status Years Planted with Local Stocks Years Planted with Non-Local Stocks Life Stage @ Planting # Released
(All Years)
Local  Non-Local		 Total Broodstock source/Comments
Whatcom Creek     1980,82-84,93 1983-93 fed fry 10,446,826 1,087,580 11,534,406  
Whitehall Creek     1983 1978,80 fed fry 15,000 191,065 206,065 unknown, Hood Canal
Mainstem Skagit mixed/ composite healthy              
Bacon Creek     1979   eggs 7,656 7,656 local-origin plants of Skagit stock
Clark Creek     1954,82,91   unfed fry 501,504   501,504 local-origin plants of Skagit stock
                   
Mainstem Skagit mixed/ composite healthy              
Clark Creek     1972,76-78,82, 87-90 1971-74,76 fed fry 4,760,909 14,097,047 18,857,956 Hood Canal, Quilcene non-local plants.
Newhalem Creek       1976 fed fry   201,390 201,390 Quilcene
Park Slough     1986   fed fry 131,400   131,400  
Skagit River     1976-79   fed fry 782,642   782,642  
          fed fry        
Sauk   healthy              
Camp Creek       1987 all eggs   4,848 4,848 Stillaguamish Stock
Lower Skagit Tributaries unknown/ wild unknown              
Swinomish Slough     1976,77,78   all unfed fry 243,569   243,569 local-origin plants of Skagit stock
Mundt Creek       1956 all unfed fry   270,000 270,000 Samish Stock
Lower Skagit Tributaries unknown/ wild unknown              
 
SASSI Stock SASSI Designation SASSI Status Years Planted with Local Stocks Years Planted with Non-Local Stocks Life Stage @ Planting # Released
(All Years)
Local  Non-Local		 Total Broodstock source/Comments
Armstrong Creek     1979,80,81,88,89, 92,93   fed fry 1,903,281   1,903,281  
Indian Slough       1992 fed fry   52,562 52,562 Skagit River origin.
Kiket Bay     1992   fed fry 50,381   50,381  
N F Skagit     1952   fed fry 4,800   4,800  
Swinomish Channel       1991-93 fed fry   916,267 916,267 Clark Creek, Skagit
Mainstem Stillaguamish not in SASSI                
Armstrong Creek     1981   all unfed fry 190,000   190,000 Stillaguamish Stock
Stillaguamish     1982   all unfed fry 32,500   32,500 Stillaguamish Stock
Church Creek     1987   all eggs 5,009   5,009 Stillaguamish Stock
Harvey Creek     1986   all unfed fry 60,000   60,000 Stillaguamish Stock
N F Stillaguamish native/wild healthy              
Fortson Creek     1982,84,85   19% unfed fry; 81% eggs 880,000   880,000 Stillaguamish Stock
N F Stillaguamish native/wild healthy              
Ashton Creek     1982,84   fed fry 361,500   361,500  
Squire Creek     1985   fed fry 914,100   914,100  
N F Stillaguamish     1990   fed fry 351,798   351,798  
Church Creek     1986   fed fry 52,200   52,200 SASSI notes that these streams (Church, Harvey, Stillaguamish)should be
Harvey Creek     1978,84-87   fed fry 4,002,521   4,002,521 listed as NF Stillaguamish areas, as that was the area
SASSI Stock SASSI Designation SASSI Status Years Planted with Local Stocks Years Planted with Non-Local Stocks Life Stage @ Planting # Released
(All Years)
Local  Non-Local		 Total Broodstock source/Comments
Stillaguamish     1982,83   fed fry 802,475   802,475 from which these plants originated (pending additional information).
S F Stillaguamish native/wild healthy              
Siberia Creek     1988,90,91,92   all eggs 56,000   56,000 Stillaguamish Stock
Jim Creek     1982   all unfed fry 184,680   184,680 Stillaguamish Stock
S F Stillaguamish native/wild healthy              
Jim Creek     1978,80,85   fed fry 193,005   193,005  
Unnamed (0319)     1987,88   fed fry 24,000   24,000  
Skykomish native/wild healthy              
Sky Slough     1984   fed fry 598,000   598,000  
Skykomish River     1982,83   fed fry 953,000   953,000  
Wallace native/wild healthy              
May Creek     1986,93   all unfed fry 330,300   330,300 Wallace River Stock
Wallace native/wild healthy              
Wallace River     1977 1974,76,77 fed fry 45,510 7,274,694 7,320,204  
Olney Creek       1993 fed fry   149,500 149,500  
Tulalip & Mission Creeks not in SASSI **               ** Wild chum not present - Tulalip tribal hatchery programs established local stock.
Tulalip Creek     1976-78,88,93   fed fry 12,888,667   12,888,667  
SASSI Stock SASSI Designation SASSI Status Years Planted with Local Stocks Years Planted with Non-Local Stocks Life Stage @ Planting # Released
(All Years)
Local  Non-Local		 Total Broodstock source/Comments
Tulalip Bay     1982-84,86,87 1975-77,79-82 fed fry 15,308,000 7,144,025 22,452,025 Quilcene stock origin for non-locals
Mission Creek     1985,89,90-92 1976 fed fry 21,086,000 974,600 22,060,600  
Lake Washington not in SASSI                
Portage Bay       1976 all unfed fry   5,600 5,600 unknown non-local stock
Lake Washington not in SASSI **               ** Wild chum not present in system.
Lake Washington     1989   fed fry 500   500  
North Creek     1993 1975 fed fry 120   120  
Portage Bay     1977   fed fry 12,000   12,000  
Ship Canal     1979   fed fry 5,500   5,500  
Venema Creek       1983-92 fed fry   305,800 305,800 Elson and Minter Ck transfers; stream drains to saltwater, independent of Lk Washington

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