In February of 1998, the United States (U.S.) and Canada exchanged proposals regarding management regimes for chinook salmon. The similarities and differences of the two proposals were discussed in TCCHINOOK (98)-01. In addition to exchanging proposed management regimes, both parties also instructed the Chinook Technical Committee (CTC) to determine Maximum Sustained Yield (MSY) or other biologically based escapement goals for the 46 chinook stocks that the CTC uses to assess fisheries effects upon wild chinook salmon escapements. In TCCHINOOK (98)-01, the CTC identified eight stocks (Situk, Alsek, King Salmon, Unuk, Chickamin, Keta, Blossom, and Andrew Creek) for which there already existed agreed MSY escapement goals.

This report includes a chapter explaining the general methods for stock-recruitment analysis and the resulting MSY or biologically based escapement goals for seven additional escapement assessment stocks: Taku, Stikine, Lewis, Columbia River Summer, Nehalem, Siletz, and Siuslaw.