The 1984 Oregon Ocean Salmon Fisheries, October 1, 1983 to September 30, 1984

Identification Information

Citation

Originator: McQueen, R. K., D. L. Scarnecchia, and L. Osis

Publish Date: 1984

Online Link: None

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Contact Information

Agency: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Name: Cedric Cooney

Job Position: Natural Resources Data and Systems Manager

Telephone: 503-947-6094

E-Mail Address: Cedric.X.Cooney@odfw.oregon.gov

Description

Abstract: The Ocean Salmon Management Program is responsible for collecting fishery and biological data from the commercial and recreational ocean salmon fisheries, and analyzing the data and recommending appropriate management regulations for these fisheries. Management regulations are designed to achieve the optimum sustained use of the salmon resources. In FY 1984 we sampled and analyzed data on catch and fishing effort, investigated chinook age composition, and recovered marked and coded-wire tagged salmon caught in offshore fisheries. We instituted a short-term troll observer program designed to obtain data on coho salmon that were caught and released during the chinook-only season south of Cape Falcon. We also sampled eye fluid and tissue samples from chinook salmon at Charleston for use in electrophoretic genetic-stock identification (GSI) analysis. Other short-term activities were an evaluation of a troll season extension for chinook salmon off southern Oregon, and the collection of random coho scales for a Research Section scale study to identify hatchery and wild coho. We continued the "key buyer" calling of processors to estimate daily troll coho landings north of Cape Falcon. The key buyers represented about 90% of the total area landings. The sampling program for the ocean salmon fisheries is supervised by a program leader and 2 project leaders, one each for the troll and recreational fisheries. We sampled at 11 major ports along the coast utilizing 9 troll and 22 recreational samplers and 2 crew chiefs. The two crew chiefs acted as liaison between samplers and the project leaders in Newport and helped sample whenever necessary. They also brought the survey data and coded wire tags to Newport each week. Two seasonal employees helped Newport staff edit, keypunch and computer process the sampled data. Sampling program activities for 1984 were reduced by not using a central coast crew chief and not sampling commercial landings at Pacific City and Depoe Bay. These reductions were implemented because of the lack of a commercial coho fishery south of Cape Falcon. Normally, coho predominate in the landings at both Pacific City and Depoe Bay, and with no coho fishery, sampling was not justified. Funding of the ocean sampling program came from two sources: (1) Anadromous Fisheries Act 89-304 (Project Number AFC-121-1) and (2) Bonneville Power Administration - Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission (Contract Number 84-0016).

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Time Period of Content: October 1, 1983 to September 30, 1984

Geographic Extent: Not Available

Status: Final

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Format: PDF file

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Bibliography Information

Field Name	Value
Biblio ID	4285
Year	1984
Publisher
Request Type	Report (Annual)
Location	Salem HQ
Date Created	1984
Date Cataloged	6/19/2007
Date Published	1984
Type	stp edge
Pages	1-63
Volume
Status	2
Descriptor	Ocean Salmon; Harvest; Coast, OR
Date Entered	2007-06-19 00:00:00
Location In Clackamas Library	E wall, Oregon Salmon
Author	Robert K McQueen; Laimons Osis; Stephen L Lewis
Duplicates	1
Number Remaining After Requests
Presumed All Distributed
Back Room Duplicates
Author	Scarnecchia, D.L.; McQueen, R.K.; Osis, L.
Risk	Harvest
Species
Disposition Of Requests	StreamNet Library: Requested, but no copies available
Disposition Of Requests	Tim Dalton: Requested, but no copies available

Is a physical copy maintained for reference at Headquarters? Yes