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GOAL 1
An infrastructure will exist to provide long-term continuity in leadership, direction, and
oversight of salmon restoration.
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- Strategy 1.a - Establish accountability and
responsibility for inplementing OCSRI through
a specific position in state government.
- Strategy 1.b - Establish and maintain active
process to overcome institutional barriers to
restoration and improve communication and
coordination within and between local
governments, ports, state and federal agencies,
Watershed Councils, Soil and Water
conservation Districts, Oregon Universities,
industries, and conservation organizations.
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| GOAL 2
Opportunities will exist for a wide range of
natural resource uses that are consistent with
salmon restoration.
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- Strategy 2.a - Recognize salmon as an integral
part of Oregon's cultural identity.
- Strategy 2.b - Anadromous salmonid
populations will be restored to levels that are
biologically sustainable.
- Strategy 2.c - Maintain traditional economic,
recreational, and cultural uses of natural
resources (including salmon) if they are
consistent with achieving restoration of salmon
populations, although not necessarily in
traditional historic allocation proportions.
- Strategy 2.d - Explore new uses of natural
resources that are consistent with restoration.
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| GOAL 3
Achievement of overall OCSRI goals will be
based to the greatest extent on existing laws
and environmental protections, rather than
extensive new ones.
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- Strategy 3.a - Employ prioritized compliance
monitoring, educational programs, and
enforcement efforts strategically designed to
improve compliance with existing laws and
environmental protections that are crucial to
restoration.
- Strategy 3.b - Actively encourage and support
voluntary actions hat will assist achievement of
restoration goals.
- Strategy 3.c - Develop proposals for a variety of
compensation and incentive programs to
support achievement of restoration goals.
- Strategy 3.d - Develop proposals for a package
of any new or modified laws or environmental
protection rules that may be needed to achieve
overall goals of OCSRI to support achievement
of restoration goals.
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| GOAL 4
An adequate funding base will be established
and maintained to support the OCSRI.
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- Strategy 4.a - Seek appropriate shift within
existing state and federal agency budget
priorities to support OCSRI.
- Strategy 4.b - Where appropriate, seek new
sources of state and federal funding to support
OCSRI.
- Strategy 4.c - Monitor agencies to ensure that
restoration actions and resources are prioritized,
and reduce duplication of effort.
- Strategy 4.d - Promote adaptive management of
natural resources, including salmon.
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| GOAL 5
Oregon's expectations for sustainability
of interrelated natural resources will more
accurately reflect a scientific understanding of
the physical and biological constraints of the
ecosystem.
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- Strategy 5.a - Establish an infrastructure to
assure responsibility and accountability for
maintaining momentum of public outreach and
education efforts through coordination of state
and federal agencies responsible for natural
resource management.
- Strategy 5.b - Develop active outreach and
education programs that provide expertise in
educational design and delivery. Target
audiences effectively to inform the public
regarding the habitat needs and actions that may
be taken to help restore salmon.
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| GOAL 6
Sufficient freshwater and estuarine habitat
will be available to support healthy
populations of anadromous salmonids
throughout coastal river basins.
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- Strategy 6.a - Identify areas currently supporting
relatively high densities of spawning and
rearing by anadromous salmonids (i.e., core
areas).
- Strategy 6.b - Evaluate the condition and role of
core areas when making decisions regarding
priority of habitat protection and restoration
efforts.
- Strategy 6.c - Prioritize application of available
resources in basins or geographic regions based
on assessment of need and availability of
resources.
- Strategy 6.d - Identify stream reaches and sub-basins where restoration efforts are most likely
to be effective and focus restoration efforts in
these areas.
- Strategy 6.e. Management actions will be
conducted in a manner consistent with
recognition of the roles of natural and cyclic
variation in oceanic and weather conditions,
variation in underlying geology, and diversity in
biological communities.
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| GOAL 7
Populations of salmonids in coastal river
basins
will achieve levels of natural production
consistent with overall restoration goals.
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- Strategy 7.a - Manage harvest and fishery
related mortality to achieve numbers and
distribution of spawners consistent with
management objectives.
- Strategy 7.b - Manage hatchery populations
consistent with Natural Production, Gene
Conservation, and Wild Fish policies (ODFW).
- Strategy 7.c - Restore ecological role of salmon
in coastal ecosystems in a manner and to an
extent consistent with restoration goals.
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| GOAL 8
A science-based system will support evaluation
of progress in the OCSRI and will provide a
basis for making appropriate future change to
management decisions.
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- Strategy 8.a - Establish an infrastructure to
support a comprehensive monitoring program.
- Strategy 8.b - Establish a comprehensive,
interdisciplinary, interagency environmental
monitoring program to monitor implementation
of proposed actions and measure achievement
of environmental objectives.
- Strategy 8.c - Establish appropriate
environmental benchmarks that will represent
successful achievement of OCSRI goals and
identify appropriate interim indicators that will
track progress toward overall goals.
- Strategy 8.d - Establish "adaptive management"
working group, to frame environmental
management questions, identify practical
alternatives for answering these questions, and
suggest need for appropriate changes in
resource management practices.
- Strategy 8.e - Establish an Independent
Scientific Review Group that will evaluate the
OCSRI on a routine, ongoing basis. This group
will make recommendations to the Governor
and the Legislature, Oregon agency boards and
commissions, the OCSRI Implementation
Team, and NMFS. In addition, the Group will
establish a routine working relationship with the
Implementation and Monitoring teams, and may
direct some work by the teams towards analyses
that are needed to evaluate or improve the
efficacy of the Conservation Plan.
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