Lake Ozette Sockeye Steering Committee
The Lake Ozette Steering Committee first met on April 1, 1981. Its early work focused on hatchery supplementation, including plans that led to the Umbrella Creek hatchery. Participants included the Makah Tribe, Olympic National Park, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Washington State Department of Fisheries, the University of Washington, and Crown Zellerbach Corporation. The committee met over the next two years, and multiagency recovery efforts waned from 1983 to 1987.
After Lake Ozette sockeye were listed as threatened in 1999, the committee was reorganized to coordinate research and recovery planning. Its membership expanded to include NOAA Fisheries, local landowners, and other interested participants. Working groups addressed hatchery management, habitat limiting factors, and research and monitoring priorities.
In 2019, a motion was made to dissolve the Lake Ozette Sockeye Steering Committee, and the committee voted to do so.
Meeting notes
- 2017 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)
- 2016 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)
- 2015 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)
- 2014 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)
- 2013 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)
- 2012 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)
- 2011 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)
- 2010 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)
- 2009 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)
- 2008 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)
- 2007 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)
- 2006 LOSSC Meeting Notes (PDF)