OAR 635-500-3480: Wild Trout Production

Policy and objectives for wild trout production enhancement in the Sandy River basin. (1) Policy: Native rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, whitefish, and introduced brook trout in the Sandy River basin shall be managed for natural production consistent with the Wild Fish management alternative for trout (ODFW Trout Plan, 1987). Hatchery trout releases in the Sandy River basin shall be confined to standing water bodies only. (2) Objectives: (a) Maintain the genetic diversity, adaptiveness, and abundance of native rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, and whitefish populations by enhancing natural production, preserving and restoring historical distribution, and by sustaining multiple age-classes; (b) Provide angling opportunities on naturally produced rainbow and cutthroat trout in the basin, and continue to provide consumptive angling opportunities for brook trout; (c) Protect, enhance, and restore rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, and whitefish habitat; (d) Ensure adequate fish passage is provided and maintained throughout the basin; (e) Achieve mitigation for lost searun and fluvial trout spawning and rearing habitat associated with hydropower water diversions in the basin.