Domoic acid is a naturally occurring toxin related to a “bloom” of certain single-celled algae.
Fish and shellfish are capable of accumulating elevated levels of domoic acid in their tissue, leading to illness if consumed by humans.
During late 2015 through early 2016, domoic acid along the West Coast interrupted Dungeness and rock crab fisheries from Santa Barbara to the Oregon state line.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and California Department of Public Health (CDPH) are working with the fishing community to collect crab samples from the northern California coast until the domoic acid levels have dissipated.
For more information, visit www.cdph.ca.gov.
source: California Department of Fish and Wildlife
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Monday, March 17, 2014
2014 Pacific Salmon Predictions
The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) recently released predictions for the 2014 salmon season off the West Coast of the United States.
North of Cape Falcon
The 2014 Columbia River tule Chinook forecasts are improved from 2013 at 110,000, and combined fall Chinook returns are expected to be over a million fish. The hatchery coho forecasts for the Columbia River are greatly improved from 2013. In addition, the forecast for Oregon coastal natural (OCN) coho is 230,000.
North of Cape Falcon, Columbia River hatchery coho returns were 316,000, well below the forecast of 525,000. Columbia River Chinook returns, however, were among the highest on record, and upriver fall Chinook returned at levels nearly double the expected levels.
California and Southern Oregon
Central Valley fall Chinook are forecast at over 630,000, providing salmon fishing opportunity while allowing estimated spawning escapements over 300,000. The minimum conservation goal is 122,000 – 180,000 spawning adult salmon.
The conservation goal, or escapement goal, is the optimal number of adult fish returning to spawn in order to maximize the production of the stock.
Also in California, the ocean abundance forecast for Klamath River Fall Chinook is nearly 300,000, providing reasonable sport and commercial harvest while meeting the minimum natural spawning goal of 40,700, and the 2014 management objective of an ocean harvest rate of no more than 16 percent.
source: Pacific Fishery Management Council
North of Cape Falcon
The 2014 Columbia River tule Chinook forecasts are improved from 2013 at 110,000, and combined fall Chinook returns are expected to be over a million fish. The hatchery coho forecasts for the Columbia River are greatly improved from 2013. In addition, the forecast for Oregon coastal natural (OCN) coho is 230,000.
North of Cape Falcon, Columbia River hatchery coho returns were 316,000, well below the forecast of 525,000. Columbia River Chinook returns, however, were among the highest on record, and upriver fall Chinook returned at levels nearly double the expected levels.
California and Southern Oregon
Central Valley fall Chinook are forecast at over 630,000, providing salmon fishing opportunity while allowing estimated spawning escapements over 300,000. The minimum conservation goal is 122,000 – 180,000 spawning adult salmon.
The conservation goal, or escapement goal, is the optimal number of adult fish returning to spawn in order to maximize the production of the stock.
Also in California, the ocean abundance forecast for Klamath River Fall Chinook is nearly 300,000, providing reasonable sport and commercial harvest while meeting the minimum natural spawning goal of 40,700, and the 2014 management objective of an ocean harvest rate of no more than 16 percent.
source: Pacific Fishery Management Council
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Oregon Governor’s Fund for the Environment Grants
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) recently announced the availability of Oregon Governor’s Fund for the Environment grants.
2013 grants will focus on long term conservation of the state’s wild salmon strongholds, which represent some of Oregon’s most productive and intact aquatic ecosystems and sustain the state’s largest and most diverse runs of salmon and other native aquatic species.
Oregon’s seven recognized strongholds include: the Tillamook/Nehalem, Illinois, North Umpqua, Sandy/Clackamas, Lower Deschutes, North Fork John Day, and Lower Grand Ronde (Joseph Creek, Minam River, and Wenaha River) watersheds. Salmon populations found in these systems support a variety of recreational, commercial, and Tribal fisheries.
Grant proposals requesting up to $75,000 in grant funds are being invited to support two types of projects in and across the state’s seven salmon strongholds:
1) on-the-ground habitat improvements in strongholds;
2) programmatic activities that seek to prevent the continued loss and degradation of habitats.
All projects must address the key limiting factors or threats that have been identified in existing watershed plans or assessments as bottlenecks to salmonid abundance. Approximately $300,000 in grant funds is anticipated to be awarded through this grant round.
Pre-proposals should be submitted by November 28, 2012 through NFWF’s online application system, Easygrants. Pre-proposals will be evaluated and ranked, and the strongest projects will be invited to submit full proposals due on January 31, 2013.
Full proposal applicants will be notified of grant awards by April 2013, with funds available for projects shortly thereafter. Approved projects should be completed within two years.
Eligible applicants include non-profit conservation organizations, watershed councils, soil and water conservation districts, tribes, schools, local, state and federal government agencies, and other special districts.
Applicants should log onto NFWF’s Oregon Governor’s Fund for the Environment program webpage at www.nfwf.org/orgovfund to review proposal criteria and requirements and to submit a pre-proposal.
source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
2013 grants will focus on long term conservation of the state’s wild salmon strongholds, which represent some of Oregon’s most productive and intact aquatic ecosystems and sustain the state’s largest and most diverse runs of salmon and other native aquatic species.
Oregon’s seven recognized strongholds include: the Tillamook/Nehalem, Illinois, North Umpqua, Sandy/Clackamas, Lower Deschutes, North Fork John Day, and Lower Grand Ronde (Joseph Creek, Minam River, and Wenaha River) watersheds. Salmon populations found in these systems support a variety of recreational, commercial, and Tribal fisheries.
Grant proposals requesting up to $75,000 in grant funds are being invited to support two types of projects in and across the state’s seven salmon strongholds:
1) on-the-ground habitat improvements in strongholds;
2) programmatic activities that seek to prevent the continued loss and degradation of habitats.
All projects must address the key limiting factors or threats that have been identified in existing watershed plans or assessments as bottlenecks to salmonid abundance. Approximately $300,000 in grant funds is anticipated to be awarded through this grant round.
Pre-proposals should be submitted by November 28, 2012 through NFWF’s online application system, Easygrants. Pre-proposals will be evaluated and ranked, and the strongest projects will be invited to submit full proposals due on January 31, 2013.
Full proposal applicants will be notified of grant awards by April 2013, with funds available for projects shortly thereafter. Approved projects should be completed within two years.
Eligible applicants include non-profit conservation organizations, watershed councils, soil and water conservation districts, tribes, schools, local, state and federal government agencies, and other special districts.
Applicants should log onto NFWF’s Oregon Governor’s Fund for the Environment program webpage at www.nfwf.org/orgovfund to review proposal criteria and requirements and to submit a pre-proposal.
source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Oregon Ocean Policy Advisory Council Recommends Marine Reserves
On 7 December, Oregon’s Ocean Policy Advisory Council recommended that Oregon set aside three new ocean areas as “marine reserves”. The recommendation was adopted by a 15 to 1 vote, and sent on to the Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission for formal rule-making. The reserves could also become part of Oregon legislation in 2011.
The reserves, at Yachats’ Cape Perpetua, Manzanita’s Cape Falcon and Depoe Bay’s Cascade Head, represent a much bigger swath of ocean than the 4 square miles in total that was set aside last year at Port Orford’s Redfish Rocks and Newport’s Otter Rock. Those two areas comprise .03 percent of state-owned waters, which stretch from shore to three miles out to sea. The three new reserves would take up between 5 and 7 percent of state territorial waters.
Members of the Council usually opposed to such set asides in the past, including at least one commercial fisherman, remain skeptical but decided they’d be better off voting for a proposal that directs the state to secure funding for research of the marine reserves’ results, assures enforcement of restrictions within the reserves, and promises mitigation of the economic impacts to coastal communities that rely on the fishing industry.
The reserves each take different shapes, and they have one or more less restrictive “marine protected area” attached to them. The reserve at Cape Perpetua, for example, occupies a total of 22.9 square miles; no fishing or wave energy development or “extractive” activity of any kind would be allowed in that area. Further north, the Council is recommending a “marine protected area” where recreational and commercial crabbing, commercial salmon fishing and shoreside recreational fishing would be allowed, as would commercial groundfishing with hook-and-line. That area is 18.2 square miles.
South of the Perpetua marine reserve, there are two more protected areas, one that’s 13.1 square miles and another that’s 36 square miles. The smaller area has the same restrictions as the protected area further north, except that it allows for groundfish trawling and forage fishing, and the targeting of prey fish such as herring, sardines and anchovies. The other protected area to the south allows for all but forage fishing. The council also recommended more evaluation of a possible sixth marine reserve, off Cape Arago. For more information about the Oregon Ocean Policy Council go to: www.oregon.gov/LCD/OPAC.
source: Fishlink Sublegals
The reserves, at Yachats’ Cape Perpetua, Manzanita’s Cape Falcon and Depoe Bay’s Cascade Head, represent a much bigger swath of ocean than the 4 square miles in total that was set aside last year at Port Orford’s Redfish Rocks and Newport’s Otter Rock. Those two areas comprise .03 percent of state-owned waters, which stretch from shore to three miles out to sea. The three new reserves would take up between 5 and 7 percent of state territorial waters.
Members of the Council usually opposed to such set asides in the past, including at least one commercial fisherman, remain skeptical but decided they’d be better off voting for a proposal that directs the state to secure funding for research of the marine reserves’ results, assures enforcement of restrictions within the reserves, and promises mitigation of the economic impacts to coastal communities that rely on the fishing industry.
The reserves each take different shapes, and they have one or more less restrictive “marine protected area” attached to them. The reserve at Cape Perpetua, for example, occupies a total of 22.9 square miles; no fishing or wave energy development or “extractive” activity of any kind would be allowed in that area. Further north, the Council is recommending a “marine protected area” where recreational and commercial crabbing, commercial salmon fishing and shoreside recreational fishing would be allowed, as would commercial groundfishing with hook-and-line. That area is 18.2 square miles.
South of the Perpetua marine reserve, there are two more protected areas, one that’s 13.1 square miles and another that’s 36 square miles. The smaller area has the same restrictions as the protected area further north, except that it allows for groundfish trawling and forage fishing, and the targeting of prey fish such as herring, sardines and anchovies. The other protected area to the south allows for all but forage fishing. The council also recommended more evaluation of a possible sixth marine reserve, off Cape Arago. For more information about the Oregon Ocean Policy Council go to: www.oregon.gov/LCD/OPAC.
source: Fishlink Sublegals
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