Pacific salmon are culturally and economically important species to Southeast Alaska, where there is a history of large wild runs and supplemental production from hatchery programs. Salmon management in Alaska is divided amongst various governmental agencies. Non-governmental organizations also play a pivotal role in salmon management. To fulfill the requirements...
California, Oregon and Washington, in cooperation with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission, have initiated a coastwide Dungeness Crab Management Program. The primary objective of the program is to develop economic and biological information essential in supporting management decisions leading toward better management of the...
During April 1979 the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife participated in a survey of Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus) in cooperation with the National Marine Fisheries Service and Washington Department of Fisheries. The survey occurred off the coasts of Oregon and Washington from Newport, Oregon to Cape Flattery. Planning...
In 1973 Oregon entered into a cooperative State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program with the states of Washington and California, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission. A study team consisting of two economists and a biologist was hired to review the Dungeness crab fishery and management...
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1983, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1984, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1981, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1975, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1983, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1980, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1973, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1974, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the commission, and reports of the status of sport fisheries for 1972, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the commission, and reports of the status of sport fisheries for 1971, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the commission, and reports of the status of sport fisheries for 1970. It also has a report on hooking mortalities in Pacific Salmon.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the commission for the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1969. It also has reports of the status of various sports fisheries for prior years.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1968, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1963 and 1964, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1965, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1966 and 1967, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
After providing a summary of the first fifteen years of the commission, this report covers the actions and regulations of the PMFC in 1962. It also contains data for research on the effects of tagging on mortality on Chinook salmon, and details the status of various ocean sport fisheries.
This issue of the PMFC bulletin focuses primarily on the English sole, including results of tagging off of various coasts and studies of various populations of English sole. It also gives a review of sablefish tagging in California and details the Oregon trawl fishery for mink food up to 1965.
This issue of the PMFC bulletin centers on sablefish along the Pacific Coast, describing the fisheries of California, Oregon, and Washington. It also has the results of a racial study of Pacific Coast sablefish, and has the results of sablefish tagging experiments in California, Oregon, and Washington.
This issue of the bulletin covers salmon landings, spawning of dover sole, movements of petrale sole, the pink shrimp fishery, and availability of small salmon off the Columbia River.
This issue of the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission bulletin contains a study of annual and seasonal bathymetric catch patterns for commercially important ground fishes of the Pacific Northwest coast.
This volume of the PMFC bulletin focuses on salmon troll fisheries, with descriptions of the California and Oregon fisheries as well as a research report on the Washington State troll fishery.
The West Coast salmon fishery presents several complexities that have received little attention in the fisheries economics literature. Two of those complexities are reviewed and analyzed in this dissertation. The first, salmon fishermen participate in alternative fisheries within a season demonstrating a complex switching behavior between different species. Second, the...
Tillamook Bay chum salmon are caught commercially by gill-nets, both set and drift, and from 1928 through 1949 the landings have averaged 819,689 pounds per season. More chum salmon are caught on Tillamook Bay than on the rest of the Oregon coastal rivers combined. These fish enter the ocean only...
1. The Indians at Celilo Falls catch an average of over 2,600,000 pounds of fish each year, in dip nets in a manner very much the same as used by their ancestors. 2. The bulk of the fish caught at Celilo Falls is from the upriver fall run of chinook...
The salmon runs of the Columbia River constitute one of the most important natural resources of the states of Oregon and Washington. Thousands of people are dependent, wholly or in part, upon these resources for their livelihood; and their welfare is dependent upon the maintenance of the salmon runs. It...
The salmon of the Columbia River have supported an intensive fishery for over seventy years but are now showing unmistakable signs of depletion, and various factors are contributing to the rapid progress of this condition. Five species of fish enter into the commercial fishery on the Columbia River itself. These...
In spite of the progressive restrictions of the commercial river fishery during the past fifty years, the trend of the salmon populations of the coastal rivers has been downward. It is almost impossible to isolate and analyze separately the causes of this decline, and any attempt to saddle one factor...
This information report contains the results of a program to distribute surplus fry to streams underutilized by the natural population. It discusses the stocking and evaluation procedures, and gives the results.
Salmon hatcheries have been utilized throughout the Pacific Northwest for many decades to mitigate losses, supplement natural spawning populations, and to provide tribal, sport and commercial fishing opportunities. Currently, there is substantial debate on their efficacy and the potential threats hatchery-reared salmonids pose to natural populations. These concerns have lead...
Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a foodborne pathogen recognized as the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis associated with consumption of raw and undercooked seafood, particularly raw oysters, with major symptoms of nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. It is estimated that 45,000 cases of V. parahaemolyticus infection occur each year in the...
“Prepared for the State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program.” Crabs molt every year. After they molt, their shells are soft and are not filled out with meat. It takes weeks for the crabs to fill out. The problem for fishery managers is that the timing of the crab molt varies from...
This is a brief report to the Pacific States Marine Fish Commission reporting on the crab season for the winter of 1968/1969 for the U.S. West Coast, from Alaska to California. It was a good year.
“October 1, 1977 to September 30, 1978.” “Annual and Completion Report.” (front cover) "The Troll Salmon Investigation is responsible for obtaining fishery and biological data, analyzing these data, and recommending appropriate management options for the troll fishery. Proposed management options are designed to achieve the optimum use of the salmon...
The Troll Salmon Investigation is responsible for obtaining fishery and biological data, analyzing these data, and recommending appropriate management options for the troll fishery. Proposed management options are designed to achieve the optimum use of the salmon resource on a sustained basis. Activities pursued during FY 1977 included the sampling...
This report covers a range of information about shellfish, including the populations of clams in Yaquina & Tillamook bays, the Pacific Oyster mortality event in Coos bay (with a hand-drawn map of Coos Bay), testing of different crab baits, and different statistics about the Coquille River Crab Fishery. This report...
Consumption of seafood products continues to grow each year, but post-harvest losses and inedible seafood waste remain as high as 25%. Ice-based systems are the most common form of preservation to increase shelf life, preserve product quality, and enhance product safety. Slurry ice is a type of chilling media, consisting...
The typical coho salmon life history has been characterized by juvenile fish that spend their entire first year in freshwater habitats before migrating into estuaries as smolts. However, reports of early migrating coho fry (age 0), including migration downstream to estuarine habitats, date back to the 1960s. Until a few...
Oregon's commercial fishery for albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga)
is large, valuable, and variable. Little is known, however, about the
oceanographic factors which determine abundance and distribution of
albacore.
Primarily using logbook data contributed by fishermen, this study
compares albacore catches with selected ocean conditions. The study
is limited to troll-caught...
Nearshore and estuarine environments along the U.S West Coast are ocean acidification (OA) "hotspots". Carbon dioxide-enriched water has been correlated with production losses of Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) larvae at hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest. Limited and unreliable supply of larval seed has implications for the economic well-being of commercial...
"The decade of massive change facing Oregon's commercial fishing industry includes a potential for development of a new fishery that could generate $86 million in income to coastal communities and up to $114 million coastwide if catches of Pacific whiting were landed and processed onshore" (From Title Page)
"The Pacific Northwest Seafood Association is involved in several activities. Our primary goals are to maintain the greatest long-term, sustainable harvest utilization and value-added benefits from all of our fisheries. In 1992, the state decided that commercial fisheries should be designated a key Oregon industry. That event combined with several...
"The decade of change challenging Oregon's commercial fishing industry includes the potential for development of a new fishery that could generate $86 million in income to coastal communities and up to $114 million coastwide if catches of Pacific whiting were landed and processed onshore. At the same time, the industry...