This document contains a result of a study to determine the role of hatchery-reared winter steelhead in steelhead fisheries. The study examines the contribution of these salmon ‘with respect to’ angling intensity, number of fish stocked, contribution of native stocks, and several other factors. It also investigates survival of hatchery-reared...
Draft report. "An important recreational fishery has developed in the last five years in Yaquina Bay, targeting primarily on fish returning to a private hatchery facility. We have no specific creel information from this fishery and this census begins to fill that gap." (from the Introduction)