Download or read book Freshwater Environmental Problems and Coho Production in Oregon written by Steven L. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impacts of Oregon Aqua Foods Operation on the Wild Coho Fishery of the Yaquina River written by Jim Lichatowich and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upstream written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-08-17 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of salmon to the Pacific Northwestâ€"economic, recreational, symbolicâ€"is enormous. Generations ago, salmon were abundant from central California through Idaho, Oregon, and Washington to British Columbia and Alaska. Now they have disappeared from about 40 percent of their historical range. The decline in salmon numbers has been lamented for at least 100 years, but the issue has become more widespread and acute recently. The Endangered Species Act has been invoked, federal laws have been passed, and lawsuits have been filed. More than $1 billion has been spent to improve salmon runsâ€"and still the populations decline. In this new volume a committee with diverse expertise explores the complications and conflicts surrounding the salmon problemâ€"starting with available data on the status of salmon populations and an illustrative case study from Washington state's Willapa Bay. The book offers specific recommendations for salmon rehabilitation that take into account the key role played by genetic variability in salmon survival and the urgent need for habitat protection and management of fishing. The committee presents a comprehensive discussion of the salmon problem, with a wealth of informative graphs and charts and the right amount of historical perspective to clarify today's issues, including: Salmon biology and geographyâ€"their life's journey from fresh waters to the sea and back again to spawn, and their interaction with ecosystems along the way. The impacts of human activitiesâ€"grazing, damming, timber, agriculture, and population and economic growth. Included is a case study of Washington state's Elwha River dam removal project. Values, attitudes, and the conflicting desires for short-term economic gain and long-term environmental health. The committee traces the roots of the salmon problem to the extractive philosophy characterizing management of land and water in the West. The impact of hatcheries, which were introduced to build fish stocks but which have actually harmed the genetic variability that wild stocks need to survive. This book offers something for everyone with an interest in the salmon issueâ€"policymakers and regulators in the United States and Canada; environmental scientists; environmental advocates; natural resource managers; commercial, tribal, and recreational fishers; and concerned residents of the Pacific Northwest.
Download or read book Pacific Salmon their Ecosystems written by Deanna J. Stouder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The symposium "Pacific Salmon and Their Ecosystems: Status and Future Options',' and this book resulted from initial efforts in 1992 by Robert J. Naiman and Deanna J. Stouder to examine the problem of declining Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.). Our primary goal was to determine informational gaps. As we explored different scientific sources, state, provincial, and federal agencies, as well as non-profit and fishing organizations, we found that the information existed but was not being communicated across institutional and organizational boundaries. At this juncture, we decided to create a steering committee and plan a symposium to bring together researchers, managers, and resource users. The steering committee consisted of members from state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, and private industry (see Acknowledgments for names and affiliations). In February 1993, we met at the University of Washington in Seattle to begin planning the symposium. The steering committee spent the next four months developing the conceptual framework for the symposium and the subsequent book. Our objectives were to accomplish the following: (1) assess changes in anadromous Pacific Northwest salmonid populations, (2) examine factors responsible for those changes, and (3) identify options available to society to restore Pacific salmon in the Northwest. The symposium on Pacific Salmon was held in Seattle, Washington, January 10-12, 1994. Four hundred and thirty-five people listened to oral presentations and examined more than forty posters over two and a half days. We made a deliberate attempt to draw in speakers and attendees from outside the Pacific Northwest.
Download or read book General Technical Report PNW GTR written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coho Salmon written by Oregon State University. Sea Grant College Program and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographies and Literature of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethical Questions for Resource Managers written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uses and Effects of Cultured Fishes in Aquatic Ecosystems written by Harold L. Schramm and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factors Affecting Coho Salmon Production in Oregon written by Dennis Leslie Scarnecchia and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight scale characters of known hatchery and wild coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) were compared, and a linear discriminant function was used to determine if hatchery and wild adult coho salmon could be correctly identified by their scales. Eighty-two percent of the hatchery and 89% of the wild fish were correctly identified. Based on analysis of scales from adult salmon of unknown origin (hatchery or wild) and the estimated catch of hatchery coho (marked) taken by the Oregon sport fishery, concluded that 74.9% of the fish caught in the ocean from mid-June to mid-September 1977 had been released as smelts from hatcheries. Percentages of hatchery fish in the catch ranged from 85% near the mouth of the Columbia River to 61% at Winchester Bay on the southern Oregon coast. Fisheries on the south and central Oregon coast may have fished on higher percentages of wild coho salmon later in the season, probably because wild fish from coastal streams remained off of these ports while most fish destined for Columbia River hatcheries had already migrated northward. Scales from coho salmon were used to determine if location on the body from which they were taken would affect the values of five scale characters. Scales obtained from within a relatively small area above the lateral line between the dorsal and adipose fins differed widely in total radius, in radius of the freshwater zone, and in number of circuli in the freshwater zone. Scales taken farther above the lateral line had significantly lower values for all five characters observed. I conclude that substantial error can be introduced into interpretation of scale data if care is not taken to insure that scales from each fish come from precisely the same area of the body. A well chosen scrape sample yielded a result as satisfactory as that of a "preferred" or "key" scale. To investigate the relationship between streamflow and abundance of coho salmon, I correlated flow from several Oregon coastal rivers with catch of coho salmon from these rivers and with catch from the Oregon commercial troll fishery. I found a highly significant relationship between total streamflows during the freshwater residency of the fish for five Oregon coastal rivers combined and pounds of adult coho salmon caught by the Oregon commercial troll fishery from 1942 to 1962. There is also a significant relationship between total combined annual (January-December) flows for these rivers and a catch 2 years later. Conversely, I found a poor relationship between the lowest 60 consecutive days of summer flow and 2 two years later. I also found significant relationships between annual flows and catch in Tillamook Bay from 1934 to 1946. Only on the Siletz River from 1927 to 1940 do find a significant relationship between summer flows and catch. Higher flows during the freshwater stages of coho salmon probably provide more habitat and better conditions for growth as well as lessen susceptibility of fry and smelts to predation. I concluded that the relationships I found should probably not be used now to predict abundance of wild coho salmon because of (l) the unknown interaction between wild and hatchery fish, and (2) the preponderance of hatchery fish in the catch.
Download or read book Sport Fishery Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Identification of Physical Habitats Limiting the Production of Coho Salmon in Western Oregon and Washington written by Gordon H. Reeves and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Salmon Without Rivers written by Jim Lichatowich and published by . This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fundamentally, the salmon's decline has been the consequence of a vision based on flawed assumptions and unchallenged myths.... We assumed we could control the biological productivity of salmon and 'improve' upon natural processes that we didn't even try to understand. We assumed we could have salmon without rivers." --from the introduction From a mountain top where an eagle carries a salmon carcass to feed its young to the distant oceanic waters of the California current and the Alaskan Gyre, salmon have penetrated the Northwest to an extent unmatched by any other animal. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the natural productivity of salmon in Oregon, Washington, California, and Idaho has declined by eighty percent. The decline of Pacific salmon to the brink of extinction is a clear sign of serious problems in the region. In Salmon Without Rivers, fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich offers an eye-opening look at the roots and evolution of the salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest. He describes the multitude of factors over the past century and a half that have led to the salmon's decline, and examines in depth the abject failure of restoration efforts that have focused almost exclusively on hatcheries to return salmon stocks to healthy levels without addressing the underlying causes of the decline. The book: describes the evolutionary history of the salmon along with the geologic history of the Pacific Northwest over the past 40 million years considers the indigenous cultures of the region, and the emergence of salmon-based economies that survived for thousands of years examines the rapid transformation of the region following the arrival of Europeans presents the history of efforts to protect and restore the salmon offers a critical assessment of why restoration efforts have failed Throughout, Lichatowich argues that the dominant worldview of our society -- a worldview that denies connections between humans and the natural world -- has created the conflict and controversy that characterize the recent history of salmon; unless that worldview is challenged and changed, there is little hope for recovery. Salmon Without Rivers exposes the myths that have guided recent human-salmon interactions. It clearly explains the difficult choices facing the citizens of the region, and provides unique insight into one of the most tragic chapters in our nation's environmental history.
Download or read book Return to the River written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ocean Ecology of North Pacific Salmonids written by William G. Pearcy and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of Northeast Pacific salmon ecology, encompassing all five salmon and two trout species of Oncorhynchus--with Oregon coho salmon, the author's specialty for the past decade, acting as centerpiece. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
