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In the "Combined Fisheries" section of the table, the authors have separated catches 

 into marine and freshwater and commercial and sport. The authors have included the 

 Buoy 10 catch in the marine category. The states and PFMC separated the Buoy 10 

 fishery from the ocean in 1982 and since 1982 have considered it a freshwater " 

 (Columbia) fishery. 



Page 230, Tables 1.2-1. to 1.2-4. 



The source for Tables 1.2-1, 1.2-3, and 1.2-4 is noted at the bottom of the tables as 

 NPPC (Unpublished). The Department did not attempt to verify these tables. The 

 source for Table 1.2-2 is noted as PNNC (Unpublished). The Department is not 

 familiar with this acronym and it is not listed in Glossary. The Department did not 

 attempt to verify this table either. 



Page 234, Table 1.2-5. Ocean Coast and Columbia River 1990 Salmonid Catch 



and Escapement Numbers. 



This table lists various species-runs of salmonids with total catch compared to 

 escapement goals and actual escapement. A fifth column provides "Notes" relative to 

 the results for each species-run. The table has two parts, Oregon Coast and Columbia 

 River. 



This table has considerable problems. The "apples and oranges" comparison problem 

 seen in some earlier tables is present here too. For example, in presenting data for 

 wild coho salmon the total Oregon marine catch of all stocks of coho (hatchery and 

 wild) is reported as 322, 3CX). This catch is then compared to an escapement goal of 

 161,000 (the 1990 goal for wild Oregon Coastal Natural coho) and an actual 

 escapement number of 68,600 which again is OCN coho. The actual harvest of wild 

 coastal coho was 171,100 (not 322,300), and the escapement was 104,200 (not 68,600, 

 a preliminary estimate by PFMC (1991)). Hatchery coho harvest should not have been 

 included in these estimates. These comments are also pertinent to errors discovered in 

 Table 1.2-8. 



The "apples and oranges" comparison problem also applies to data for Orcjgon Coast 

 Chinook and several Columbia species-runs. However, for Columbia species-runs it is 

 difficult for us to determine which are "apples" and which are "oranges" as there are so 

 many errors in the data presented. For example, total catch is listed for 17 Columbia 

 species-run. Of the 17 entries, seven listings are correct and 10 are incorrect. Some of 

 the errors list catches 600% higher than actual. This table lists 1990 escapement goals 

 for three coastal and 17 Columbia species-runs. Three Columbia goals are incorrect. 

 In the listings of actual escapements versus goals there are seven errors for the 17 

 Columbia species-runs. Several of the notes offer erroneous information. Even the 

 column listing species-run is in error in that the authors have assumed all upriver spring 

 and summer chinook and upriver bright fall chinook are wild. In fact the majority of 

 upriver spring and summer chinook are hatchery produced. 



Other errors are also present. There is no mention of Columbia River hatchery 

 summer steelhead returns. This species-run has performed well recentiy with some 

 returns exceeding 300,000 annually. Coastal hatchery coho is also not mentioned. 

 There are indentation problems in the column for species-run leading to reader 



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