Process (p Sample Clauses

Process (p. 5) The annual decision making process centers around a pre-season workshop, held under the FTC auspices, where status and trends, key assumptions, and previously agreed upon decision rules are reviewed and translated into an Annual Action Plan (Section 3). Prior to this workshop, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and Tacoma Power will update key assumptions and status and trends based on monitoring results from the most recent season. That information is captured in the In-Season Implementation Tool (ISIT), a database and calculator described in Appendix I. Decision rules will be reviewed each year, but are expected to change less frequently. Barring extraordinary circumstances, the decision rules should only be updated every six years, as the FHMP is updated. In other words, decisions will change each year due to new information, but the rules for making those decisions should remain the same. The decision rules are described below for each Cowlitz population in Section 3. The agenda for the pre-season workshop is driven by the outline of the Status and Trends and Key Assumptions sections, where the new information brought in through the M&E program will be highlighted. The Status and Trends portion of the agenda will cover natural production (e.g., most recent spawning escapement abundance and composition), harvest, and hatchery production by species and hatchery program. The Key Assumptions part of the agenda will include, for each population: habitat and natural production parameters, smolt to adult survival parameters (e.g., most recent estimates of average fish passage survival at Cowlitz Falls, harvest parameters (e.g., pre-terminal exploitation rates), and hatchery production parameters (e.g., updated in-hatchery survival projections). It has not yet been established that Cowlitz Falls will be the only fish collection facilities to measure and estimate the total upper Cowlitz fish passage survival rates. In fact, other collections facilities have been proposed below Cowlitz Falls and extend miles into the lower section of Xxxxx Lake. (See Draft DFPT recommendations conceptual design 90%).