Engage in holistic conservation & restoration to increase ney-puy resilience (Beechie et al. 2013). Focus should include all critical habitats...

Increase Tribal input into fish hatchery programs to minimize harm done to wild stocks (Mote et al. 2003).

Continue to support existing robust Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program.

Consider experimenting with closing hatchery operations for a period of time to assess effects on wild fish (NRC 2004).

Design future monitoring efforts in a manner that covers a complete 3-year chey-guen (Coho) life cycle.

Continue to utilize the bathymetry map of the river to identify deeper, cooler locations to conserve.

Initiate innovative “roll out the red carpet” techniques, such use of solar-powered cooling/oxygen stations.

Continue to rehabilitate historic logging roads to reduce sediment deliveries to aquatic habitats.

Consider sequential cultural burns to generate smoke to cool waters and assist migration, “call the salmon home.”

Monitor benthic macroinvertebrate to identify areas with high diversity & productivity for juveniles (WRIA 2005).