(b) The Strategic Plan for Trout Management shall be intended to ensure all of the following:

1. (1) Thriving and self-sustaining, wild and native trout populations throughout their historic ranges.
2. (2) Providing and improving angling opportunities for wild and native trout and other trout.
3. (3) Providing for the conservation of wild and native trout.
4. (4) Environmental sustainability and overall ecosystem and watershed health.

(c) The Strategic Plan for Trout Management shall be guided by all of the following considerations:

1. (1) Adaptively managing trout populations, including, but not limited to, stocking practices, to establish thriving and self-sustaining native and wild trout fisheries in wild trout waters and, where possible, in other waters.
2. (2) Increasing angler satisfaction.
3. (3) Ensuring appropriate age distribution of wild trout when appropriate.

4. (4) Establishing ecologically and environmentally sustainable hatchery and stocking practices for native trout, including, but not limited to, the following:

   1. (A) Hatchery and stocking practices consistent with this chapter.
   2. (B) Stocking plans shall include consideration of angler satisfaction and public use of, and access to, the waters for angling. This may include, but is not limited to, harvest and catch rates, including, but not limited to, trophy catch rates, the potential for high angler satisfaction, and where appropriate, put and grow stocking.
   3. (C) Native trout shall be preferentially stocked when stocking is employed.
   4. (D) Designing stocking plans to maintain and optimize the genetic diversity of trout populations and to be consistent with the direction provided by the strategic trout management team.
   5. (E) Stocking plans for species listed in Section 7261 shall not exceed the documented biological carrying capacity of the water or ecosystem.
5. (5) Integrating stakeholder involvement into the planning process.
6. (6) Monitoring and evaluating management processes through angler surveys, public meetings coordinated with county fish and game commissions, or by other means.