OAR 635-500-0269: Summer Steelhead

(1) The following policy applies to summer steelhead in the McKenzie River Subbasin: Summer steelhead will be managed for production and harvest of hatchery fish — Option (1)(c) OAR 635-007-0525 of the Wild Fish Management Policy. (2) In accordance with this policy, it is the objective of the Department to: (a) Provide an average annual sport catch of 1,200 adult summer steelhead produced from a maximum release of 120,000 smolts; (b) Reduce the potential impact of summer steelhead on the production of native trout and spring chinook; (c) Develop a brood stock from adults returning to the McKenzie River to produce smolts for the McKenzie and Middle Fork Willamette Subbasins.