**Puget Sound Recovery Implementation Technical Team (RITT)**

**Agenda *and Preliminary Notes from Meeting (in italics)***

*Minutes by Norma Jean Sands, committee chair, and accepted as written
at June 23^rd^ mtg*

Third Meeting -- May 19, 2008, Seattle Aquarium on the Seattle
Waterfront

10am -- 3pm

> *Attendance:*
>
> *RITT members: Eric Beamer, Kirk Lakey, Kit Rawson, Mary Ruckelshaus,
> Norma Sands;*
>
> *PSP: Joe Ryan, Rebecca Ponzio, and Jason Mulvihill-Kuntz*

10:00 am Minutes of last meeting and today's agenda

> *Minutes of second meeting approved as amended (Eric will send three
> bullets for discussion of meeting with Skagit watershed).*

10:15 am Updates

a.  RIST (Mary)

> *The RIST had its second meeting April 28, at which they discussed
> Monitoring & Evaluation and H-integration. What are the problems and
> what could RIST review/write to help the process? The climate change
> topic was put off until their next meeting (in June).*

b.  Watershed Liaison activities

    i.  Norma -- Ozette status peer review

> *Norma attended both public hearings for the Lake Ozette sockeye
> recovery plan, May 15 at Port Angeles and May 17at Sekiu. Both went
> smoothly, with questions and interest from the public. There were
> questions on what data was used for our (TRT) viability numbers and an
> interest in seeing the TRT population and viability reports finalized
> following the public comments on the Recovery Plan and supporting
> documents.*

ii. Other. *Kirk brought up the issue of kokanee in Lake Sammamish; it
    is being looked at to see if it needs ESA protection. There is a
    technical committee currently looking at the levels of
    out-migration. Kirk also mentioned that WDFW is reviewing the new
    decision by King County to allow no placement of LWD in high use
    areas of county rivers (e.g., by rafters) nor in the outside bends
    in rivers. The King County decision was designed to reduced
    accidents by recreational users of the rivers.*

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c.  Domain Team activities -- *no one present to report.*

d.  PSP -- Joe Ryan *The PSP is looking at ways to integrate salmon
    recovery/monitoring into the Partnership's ecosystem monitoring. The
    Puget Sound Chinook Salmon Recovery Plan must not be compromised in
    the grander scheme of Puget Sound Ecosystem Recovery. PSP and NOAA
    are working together to make sure that actions needed for salmon
    recovery are incorporated into the PSP Action Plan.*

e.  *PSC Chinook agreement - Kit Rawson*

> *A new 10-yearChinook annex for the Pacific Salmon Treaty has been
> agreed to in principal. An announcement should be coming out in a week
> or two. The agreement stipulates a 30% reduction (from previous
> agreement) in the total allowable catch for the Canadian West Coast of
> Vancouver Island troll fishery and a 15% reduction in the SE Alaska
> all gear fishery. The agreement is contingent both upon finding
> mitigation funds for both fisheries and on NOAA completing a Section 7
> no-jeopardy biological opinion on the agreement. We would like to hear
> more about this from the Domain Team at our next meeting.*

10:45 am Review of three year plans by watersheds

> *Rebecca -- 3-year plan reviews for Chinook.*
>
> *The domain team is conducting a separate review that they will submit
> to the Recovery Council.*
>
> *The RITT, through its liaisons, will complete the reviews by
> watershed and Rebecca and Jason will coordinate meetings between the
> watersheds and the liaisons to discuss the reviews. Rebecca is the
> coordinator for the north Puget Sound populations and those in Hood
> Canal and the Straits. Jason is the coordinator for the southern
> populations (Lake Washington south) and Island County.*
>
> ***ACTION ITEM** -- all RITT members to review the 3-yr plans for
> their watersheds within the next week or two and place them on our
> Oracle Collaboration website. Rebecca will make sure that all 3-year
> project lists and narratives are also placed on the website.*
>
> *The 3-year plans should contain projects that can be started within
> the next three years. It is also good to indicate projects that have
> already been started and also those that have been completed. Any
> changes in the original recovery implementation, due for example to
> changes in knowledge of the system, should be noted. Minor changes may
> be reflected just in the three-year plans. Major changes may need to
> be submitted as addendums to the recovery plan.*

12:00 noon lunch break

12:30 pm Continue 3-year review

> *In our RITT/watershed discussions, how do we get the watershed to pay
> more attention to monitoring, H-integration, and adaptive management?
> This is necessary for determining how well the overall implementation
> is doing in achieving Chinook population recovery; how to link actions
> with biological responses. Do managers of all the Hs attend the
> watershed/RITT meetings? It differs from watershed to watershed as to
> who shows up, but harvest and hatchery managers are as important as
> the habitat managers.*
>
> *H-integration has been a mixed bag of how it is addressed or
> recognized by the various watersheds. Snohomish has done a good job of
> integration. We will try to get a presentation from them at our next
> meeting as to how they have addressed H-integration. Nisqually and
> Nooksack have also used H-integration to shape their recovery action
> priorities.*
>
> *Both RITT and RIST have discussions of H-integration on their
> agendas. Should we coordinate more on this? Mary and Ken are on both
> teams and can keep each team abreast with what the other is doing on
> this subject. H-integration, with an example from the Snohomish, will
> be on the RITT agenda for our next meeting.*

2:30 pm Other business

> Adaptive management -- where are we?
>
> *Set for June meeting.*
>
> Sequencing and H --integration -- H- liaisons
>
> *Addressed above and will be on June agenda..*
>
> How to interpret recovery ranges -- e.g., Ozette
>
> *Rosemary will bring this up at our June meeting.*
>
> June meeting -- when and where?
>
> *June 24^th^ downtown again. \[After this meeting, date was changed to
> June 23^rd^ as Kit Rawson could not attend 24^th^ and we want to
> address H-integration in the Snohomish at the June meeting.\]*

3:00 pm Adjourn

**Outstanding Task/Issues**

+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| **RITT**                          | **TRT -- documents to finalize**  |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| How to interpret recovery ranges  | Ozette Pop Id document            |
|                                   |                                   |
| Review Ozette Recovery Plan       | Ozette Viability document         |
| (through coordination of peer     |                                   |
| review)                           | Summer Chum document              |
|                                   |                                   |
| 3-yr plan review for Hood Canal   | Chinook Viability document        |
| summer chum                       |                                   |
|                                   |                                   |
| Review MAMA plan (adaptive        |                                   |
| management)                       |                                   |
|                                   |                                   |
| Sequencing and H --integration    |                                   |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+

**\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-- Watershed Liaisons
Adjustments\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\--**

Straits *Phil Roni*

Hood Canal Ken Currens *& Bill Graeber*

Nooksack Ken Currens

San Juan Mary Ruckelshaus

Skagit Phil Roni & Eric Beamer

Island Eric Beamer

Stillaguamish Kit Rawson

Snohomish Kit Rawson

Lake Wash. Kirk Lakey

Green Bob Fuerstenberg

Kitsap *Norma Sands*

Puyallup/White Kirk Lakey

Nisqually Ken Currens

So Puget Sound Norma Sands

Nearshore Bill Graeber

Ozette Norma Sands