Coho salmon have been the most important variety of salmon caught commercially in Oregon. Until recently, coho were also the most common variety in most coastal streams. Based on records from salmon canneries, coho in Oregon north of Cape Blanco (near Port Orford) numbered about 1.25 million adults annually 100...
The 2003-2005 Biennial Report Volume 2 is an executive summary of Oregon's assessment of the Oregon Coastal Coho Evolutionarily Significant Unit (ESU). The assessment provides a detailed analysis that will inform the pending federal decision on whether to list coho as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act.
Sections of Volume...
The report summarizes basin level accomplishments and investments related to water quality improvements, fish recovery, and watershed
health. The report also provides an overview of state agency actions
and recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of the Oregon
Plan.
This is the fourth report on the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds. The first three reports focused on people – their
stories and their efforts to restore watershed health and recover listed fish species. While these earlier reports contained
what little information was available regarding the quantitative aspects of...
This report discusses major characteristics of western Oregon’s lowland rivers, streams, and estuaries that the IMST finds to be important to wild salmonids. IMST describes how landscape scale factors (landscape structure, landscape function, disturbance regimes, and landscape scale biological processes) historically supported salmonid populations in western Oregon lowlands. The report...
Different community and environmental goals, and conflicting information in the Klamath River basin have been major concerns for citizens of Oregon and California, the Klamath Basin Tribes, and agencies responsible for managing natural resources. In an April 25, 2001 letter, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber asked the Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team...
This Technical Report of the Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team (IMST) focuses on the technical and scientific issues involving (a) management of coho salmon harvest by the State of Oregon and Pacific Fisheries Management Council and (b) the analysis of salmonid population dynamics under the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds....
On April 18 and 19, 2006, the Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team (IMST) and the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) jointly convened a technical workshop in Corvallis, Oregon on effectiveness monitoring of aquatic habitat and watershed restoration activities. The immediate goal of the workshop was to create an opportunity for monitoring...
Oregon Revised Statute (ORS) 541.409, which created the Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team (IMST), specifies that agencies are to respond to the recommendations of the IMST, stating “(3) If the Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team submits suggestions to an agency responsible for implementing a portion of the Oregon Plan [for Salmon and...