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DRAFT 



Ocean Sport Fishery (page 19) 



This section provides a comparison of ocean sport catch statistics from Table 1.1-23. 

 Again, no discussion is provided concerning the effects of harvest quotas or seasonal 

 regulations on the fishery catch or effort trends. 



Summary (pages 19-20) 



A summary of the annual catch variations described for the eight fisheries is presented 

 on pages 13-19. The theme of the summary is that Oregon's salmonid fisheries have 

 declined in recent years. This assessment combined with the escapement record, 

 '...which will be presented latter (sic) in the report... ', indicates to the authors: 



*. ..that Oregon 's salmonid stocks are not presently in good biological 

 condition. ' 



The discussion within this section of the report never mentions that annual management 

 actions directiy affect catch magnitudes. If management had allowed unrestricted 

 fishing and catches were high relative to prior years, would these increasing catches 

 indicate Oregon's salmonid stocks were in good biological condition? 



Page 20, 1.1.5. Regional Catch 



This section describes declines in Pacific Coast fisheries based on Figures 1 . 1-1 1 to 

 1.1-13, data that were not verified as the source is not listed in the References. Based 

 on these data, the authors attribute the supposed recent declines to environmental 

 factors in the ocean. 



The remainder of this section is a discussion of Poon and Garcia (1982), a report for a 

 utilities consortium about the effect of fishing pressure, hydropower development, and 

 irrigation withdrawal on Chinook salmon. It is unclear how this report is relevant to a 

 section on regional catch. 



Page 22, 1.1.6. Indirect Effects of Harvest 



Shaker Mortality (pages 22-23) 



The authors present two different types of fishing mortality and they erroneously 

 attribute both types to "shaker mortality." The authors also incorrectiy apply shaker 

 mortality estimates to total salmonid landings. A review of these issues follows: 



'Shaker loss in ocean fisheries was extensively reviewed by Ricker (1976) 

 who concluded that one additional fish is killed for every two legal fish 

 landed and reported ... ' (emphasis added) 



'Boydston (1972) estimated the shaker mortality... to be 43 percent of the 

 reported chinook catch . ' (emphasis added) 



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