Oregon Sea Grant Report - Reporting Period: May 2016-2017
n Spain, gooseneck barnacles, “percebes,” are an overfished delicacy fetching a high market price ($50/lb.). Oregon fishing communities show interest in developing a percebes market utilizing Pollicipes polymerus. The incormation compiled in this report aims to inform resource managers to avoid...
This report and its companion study, Survey of Online Marketing Success and Pricing for Oregon Coast Fishing Guides and Tour Operators, reviews the online marketing effectiveness, pricing, and amenities of guided fishing and tour businesses in Oregon, specifically coastal Oregon.
This report summarizes the StreamWebs program, curriculum development and testing. The StreamWebs program provides students, teachers and project partners with hands-on field and classroom training; access to field sampling equipment; curriculum materials and open-source, web-based tools for watershed data analysis. The program launched a number of new partnerships and added...
This report assesses climate change impacts and associated community and ecosystem vulnerability. It was compiled by a group of Oregon State University researchers and students, outreach specialists, and coastal community members in Tillamook County, Oregon (OR). Through sustained engagement with the Tillamook County Coastal Futures Knowledge to Action Network (TCCF...
This report and its companion study, Assessment of Registered Oregon Coast Outfitters and Guides, reviews the online marketing effectiveness, pricing, and amenities of guided fishing and tour businesses in Oregon, specifically coastal Oregon.
This report is for companies along the Oregon Coast that provide guided kayaking, salmon fishing, and whale-watching tours. It aims to help them better understand the effectiveness of their online marketing and see how their prices compare to those of their competitors.
In this report, we build off of the knowledge and relationships created from the Seacast tool (2017) to explore the perceptions of uncertainty for both data providers and users. We then use the knowledge of these perceptions to derive metrics that address uncertainty which are acceptable to both parties. These...
Using data from two types of surveys and the IMPLAN (IMpact analysis for PLANning) inputoutput model, we estimated the annual economic contributions of Oregon Sea Grant’s Visitor Center at Oregon State University’s (OSU) Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC) in Newport. The Visitor Center attracts approximately 150,000 visitors a year, almost...
This document reports on findings, conclusions and recommendations derived from scientific literature and knowledge regarding the effectiveness of tide gate removal or upgrade in improving conditions for Oregon’s native migratory fish species, particularly salmonids, and other plant and animal species that utilize estuarine ecosystems. The project was commissioned by the...