Oregon Coastal Salmon Restoration Initiative

• Strategy 1.a - Establish accountability and responsibility for implementing OCSRI through a specific position in state government.
• Strategy 1.b - Establishing and maintain an active process to overcome institutional barriers to restoration and improve communication and coordination with the Legislature, local governments, ports, state and federal agencies, watershed councils, soil and water conservation districts, Oregon universities, industries, and conservation organizations.

• Strategy 2.a - Recognize salmon as an integral part of Oregon's cultural identity.
• Strategy 2.b - Restore anadromous salmonid populations 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 historic allocation proportions.
• Strategy 2.d - Explore new uses of natural resources that are consistent with restoration.

• Strategy 3.a - Employ prioritized compliance monitoring, educational programs, and enforcement efforts strategically designed to improve compliance with existing laws and environment protections crucial to restoration.
• Strategy 3.b - Actively encourage and support voluntary actions that will assist achievement of restoration goals.
• Strategy3.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.

• Strategy 4.a - Seek appropriate shifts 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.

• 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 to inform the public regarding the habitat needs of salmon and actions that may be taken to help restore salmon.

• 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.
• Strategy 6.c - Prioritize application of available resources in basins or geographic regions based on assessment of local conditions.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.