Developing Fish Monitoring Methods on Southern Oregon Reefs

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Originator: Donnellan, Mike, Arlene Merems, and Bill Miller

Publish Date: 2008

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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: Oregon’s nearshore environment and the living marine resources that depend upon it are facing increasing human pressures. Emphasis and effort on nearshore fisheries has increased in recent years with the development of the live-fish fishery and reductions in offshore fishing opportunities (e.g., 2006 and 2008 salmon closures, federally-designated Rockfish Conservation Areas, Essential Fish Habitat, and Habitat Areas of Particular Concern). Significant non-fishery pressures also exist, including coastal land development, destructive land use practices, wave energy development, dredge material disposal, oil spills, and global warming, all of which can compromise the health and viability of the nearshore ecosystem and have cumulative effects on marine ecosystems. Recently, unprecedented hypoxic events have been observed in shallow shelf waters off the central Oregon coast (2002 - 2006), resulting in localized mass mortality of sessile marine species. These events are under active investigation by oceanographers and ecologists from Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (ODFW) Marine Habitat Project (Freeland, et al. 2003, Huyer 2003, Grantham et al. 2004, Chan et al. 2008). The cause of these hypoxic events is unknown, as is the possible spatial extent, intensity, frequency, and ecological effects of future events.

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Geographic Extent: Redfish Rocks, Oregon

Status: Final

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Lineage-Source: Final Report to the Department of Land Conservation and Development in fulfillment of 2006-07 Coastal Zone Management Section 309 Grant, Cooperative Agreement PS06005 This work was funded by the Oregon Department of Land, Conservation and Development Coastal Management Program through a Section 309 Program Enhancement Grant from the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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