This report provides rockfish landings (weight in metric tons) based upon species composition samples taken from commercial trawl landings in Oregon. Rockfish (Family Scorpaenidae) are an important segment of Oregon trawl landings. For over 30 years, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), Marine Finfish Program, previously known as...
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)
Personnel of the OFC and OGC sampled various station of Coos Bay, Oregon to define areas used by several species of fish in the bay. Students at the University of Oregon Institute of Marine Biology sampled main channels with an otter trawl and observed animals on the tide flat. Primary...
This report focuses on the stocks of Silver (Coho) and Chinook salmon in Tillamook and Coos Bays, as well as Nehalem, Siletz, Yaquina, Alsea, Siuslaw, and Coquille Rivers. It gives a brief history of Oregon fisheries in general, then delineates and analyzes the yearly landings of each fishery for Silver...