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NOAA Fisheries is a cooperator with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Lummi, Nooksack, and Stillaguamish Tribes in a 10-year program to rebuild the South Fork Nooksack River spring Chinook and Stillaguamish River fall Chinook stocks through a captive broodstock program. Fish will be reared to adult under secure protective culture and gametes made available for stock restoration efforts. NOAA Fisheries Manchester Research Station is currently rearing 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 brood years of these stocks. These programs are part of stock restoration efforts under US/Canada Treaty negotiations. Information on the number of juveniles received into the program is maintained and summarized by year. The production of prespawning adults transferred to Tribal Facilities for spawning is also annually summarized.