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The description of the steelhead fishery is from ODFW's Steelhead Plan (ODFW, 

 1986). The authors erred by stating that the Steelhead Plan estimated annual 

 commercial landings in the 1920s to be 100,000-120,000 fish. The plan simply stated 

 that using an average weight of 8-10 lbs divided into landings produces commercial 

 catch estimates similar to those of the present sport catch. 



Ocean Troll Fishery (page 1 1) 



A short, inaccurate, and incomplete description of the Oregon troll fishery is given in 

 two short paragraphs. The third (and last) paragraph paraphrases (incorrectly) only 

 several of 19 summary paragraphs in Van Hyning (1973). 



Van Hyning (1973) provides a review of Columbia River fall chinook returns 30-60 

 years ago, and discusses reasons for their decline in the 1950s. The 1950s decline was 

 attributable to increased ocean troll fisheries primarily in Canada. Van Hyning warned 

 that "...the effect of the recent era of intensive river development was hardly covered 

 in this analysis..." (ibid, p.77). Furthermore, Van Hyning emphasized that "...these 

 conclusions cannot be extrapolated to the future and may not apply to other species, 

 runs, or races of salmonids. " (ibid, p. 82). 



Analysis of Latter-Day Historical Catch (page 1 1) 



These four paragraphs paraphrase some of the conclusions in McKeman et. al. (1950) 

 relative to Oregon coastal coho 1923-48. McKeman lists three causes of coho declines 

 in those years: 1) logging, 2) water flows, and 3) intensity of fishing. The authors 

 paraphrase many of McKeman's comments relative to fishing, but only briefly mention 

 the other causes with the following statement: 



"...two other factors considered in the study, floods and logging, were 

 found to be related to coho salmon abundance in Oregon. " 



The authors conclude this section by stating: 



"Thus, as in all the earlier fisheries, overfishing was found to be a major 

 cause for the decline of all the commercial salmonid fisheries of Oregon 

 between the 1920s and late 1940s. " 



The authors reviewed no other historic reports to base this conclusion. 



Page, 12, 1.1.4. Recent Catch 



These two introductory paragraphs offer no useful information in comparisons of recent 

 catch data for both sport and commercial fisheries. For example, 1990 harvests are 

 compared to 1989 and to the 1978-90 average. The conclusion of the authors is that 

 sport catch has declined slightly and the commercial catch has declined sharply. In 

 fact, both fisheries show a stable or increasing trend with only 1990 being down 

 (ODFW Salmon and Steelhead Catch Data, 1977-90; ODFW and WDF, 1991; PFMC 

 1991). 



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