The 1983 Oregon Ocean Salmon Fisheries, October 1, 1982 to September 30, 1983

Identification Information

Citation

Originator: McQueen, Robert K. and Laimons Osis

Publish Date: 1983

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 obtaining fishery and biological data from the commercial and sport ocean salmon fisheries, 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. Activities pursued during FY 1983 included the sampling and analyses of data on catch and fishing effort, chinook age composition, mark recoveries and coded wire tags. We also did a short-term study on fecundity to determine if hatcheries and natural stocks could expect fewer eggs per female salmon because of the small size of the fish this year. Because of the small size of the fish we also investigated the length-weight relationship this year and compared it to data collected in earlier years. Both of these latter studies were hampered by the lack of available fish. Other short-term work was done on the 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 separate hatchery and wild coho. We started a key buyer calling program this year to keep a daily estimate of the troll coho landings. The key buyers represented about 80% of the total state 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 troll and recreational samplers. The sampling program for 1983 was upgraded by adding a third crew chief, stationed on the central coast. The north and the south coast crew chiefs brought the survey data and coded wire tag snouts to Newport each week. All three crew chiefs acted as liaison between samplers and the project leaders in Newport and also helped sample whenever necessary. Three seasonal employees also helped permanent staff to edit, keypunch and computer process the sampled data. Funding of the ocean sampling program came from three sources: (1) Anadromous Fisheries Act 89-304 (Project Number AFC-93-3), (2) Anadromous Fisheries Act 89-304 (Project Number AFC-121-1) and (3) Bonneville Power Administration - Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission (Contract Number 83-0011). The 1983 season was influenced greatly by a phenomenon called El Nino. This phenomenon resulted in the influx of warm water off the coast and caused many problems in the salmon fishery. Fishermen did not find salmon in the normal and customary areas because the fish moved into areas which contained cooler water. Periods of good upwelling were absent during the summer, resulting in poor feeding conditions and very small fish. El Nino also had an adverse effect upon the survival of the fish as indicated by poor hatchery returns.

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Time Period of Content: October 1, 1982 to September 30, 1983

Geographic Extent: Not Available

Status: Final

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Bibliography Information

Field Name	Value
Biblio ID	4286 (or 4950, deleted)
Year	1983
Publisher
Request Type	Report (Annual)
Location	Coast, OR
Date Created
Date Cataloged
Date Published	1983
Type
Pages	1-59
Volume
Status	0
Descriptor	Ocean Salmon; Harvest; Coast, OR
Date Entered	1/1/1999
Location In Clackamas Library
Author	Robert K McQueen; Laimons Osis
Duplicates
Number Remaining After Requests
Presumed All Distributed
Back Room Duplicates
Author	McQueen, R.K.; Osis, L.
Risk	Harvest
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Disposition Of Requests	StreamNet Library: Requested, but no copies available
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