Alaska Resource & Economic Development,  Inc.

This project is based on the following sequence of operations for enhancing survival and rejuvenating spawning beds:

1.      Collaborate with resource management agencies

2.      Identify carrying capacity and current baseline conditions including nutrient levels

3.      Presence or absence of other listed species both abundance and distribution

4.      Habitat evaluation/site selection

5.      Brood stock capture of wild salmon

6.      Egg take/fertilization/sterilization (during water hardening)

7.      Incubation of eggs to the “eyed stage” of development (Portable Mist Incubation, Patent Pending 

8.      Otolith marking salmon for assessment

9.      Planting eyed eggs in their stream of origin (Egg Planter)

10.  Nutrient supplementation (where and when appropriate 

11.  Assessment of operations, monitoring egg-to-fry survival, out-migrant smolts

12.  Collaborative effort (through all phases of planning and operations)