Draft Environmental Impact Statement for five early winter steelhead hatchery programs in Puget Sound

This EIS replaces and extends an Environmental Assessment, registered with PPI as "Proposed ESA determination on three early-winter steelhead hatchery programs in the Nooksack, Stillaguamish, and Dungeness River basins of Washington State." The proposed action under the EIS Is NMFS' potential approval of five management plans for early winter steelhead hatchery programs in Puget Sound. Potentially significant impacts may occur to listed Puget Sound steelhead and salmon.