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2014 Pacific Coast Steelhead Management Meeting
Abstracts and Presentations
Session One: Steelhead Stock Status Review
California – Jonathan Nelson, California Department of Fish and Game
Oregon – Eric Brown, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Idaho – Alan Byrne, Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Washington – Jeremy Cram, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
British Columbia – Mark Beere, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands & Natural Resource
Alaska – Bob Chadwick, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Session Two – Genetics & Management Session
Genetics 101 for Managers: A brief review of PBT and GSI technologies for wild and hatchery steelhead stock assessment – Craig Steele, IDFG
Genetic Estimation of Stock Abundance and Run-timing of Interior Columbia River Steelhead Passing Bonneville Dam - Jon Hess, CRITFC
Genomic signatures of domestication in two widely used hatchery strains – Sewall Young, WDFW
A collaboration of two innovative technologies for VSP Monitoring of the Snake River Steelhead DPS – Mike Ackerman, IDFG
Jumping the Falls? Interactions Between Resident and Anadromous O. Mykiss Populations at a Putative Natural Barrier – Big Bear Falls – Potlatch River, ID – Brett Bowersox, IDFG
A genetic analysis of the summer steelhead stock composition in Columbia River sport and tribal fisheries – Alan Byrne, IDFG
Session Three - Hatchery Issues
Insights into Oregon anglers: How angler opinions can help fisheries management – Kevin Goodson, ODFW
Alternative steelhead smolt rearing strategies for locally derived broodstocks – Chris Tatara, NOAA NWFSC
Recommendations of the California Hatchery Scientific Review Group for California’s Steelhead Programs – Russ Bellmer, CDFW
Increased size at release of hatchery steelhead decreases tendency of Trinity River Steelhead to exhibit the half-pounder life history – Matt Peterson, Humboldt State Univ
Poster Session
Hatchery Steelhead Release Strategies Used at WDFW Hatcheries to Reduce Potential Risks Posed to Native ESA-listed Fish Populations. Christina Iverson, WDFW
Reproductive Development In Reconditioned Female Yakima River Steelhead Kelts: Evidence For Consecutive and Skip Spawning Life Histories. Andrew L. Pierce, CRITFC
Salmon River steelhead population genetics with evidence of gene flow between headwaters. Eric LaHood, NWFSC
Implementation of Central Valley Steelhead Monitoring - Ryan Fortier, CA DFW Fisheries Branch
Session Four: Life History
Yakima River adult steelhead life history – Chris Frederiksen, Yakima Nation
Emigration timing and morphology of adult steelhead in the Situk River, Alaska – Brian Marston, ADFG
Potential influence of pink salmon on steelhead smolts in Puget Sound – Matt Klungle, WDFW
Skagit River juvenile steelhead abundance and diversity – Clayton Kinsel, WDFW
Using physiological tools to forecast male life-history types to aid in management of hatchery and wild Oncorhynchus mykiss – Donald Larsen, NOAA NWFSC
Use of PIT tags to estimate adult steelhead straying in the Columbia/Snake River – Joe Bumgarner, WDFW
Wind River steelhead: an example of significant iteroparity in the Columbia River Hydrosystem – Thomas Buehrens, WDFW
Columbia River steelhead life cycle modeling based on PIT tags – Dan Rawding, WDFW
Life-cycle models for the diverse and plastic Oncohynchus mykiss: Challenges and Opportunities – Neala Kendall, WDFW
Session Five – Climate Change and Ocean Ecology of Steelhead Session
An overview of steelhead juvenile ecology and survival when they first enter the ocean in relation to projected climate change – Rick Brodeur, NOAA NWFSC
Potential effects of climate change on the high seas life history and ecology of steelhead in the North Pacific Ocean – Kate Myers – Retired, University of Washington
Early marine survival of Puget Sound steelhead and how it may explain departure of abundance trends between Puget Sound and coastal populations – Barry Berejikian, NOAA NWFSC
Summarizing catch/timing and distribution results of steelhead from ocean survey in the California portion of the California current, including diet information – Sean Hayes, NOAA SWFSC
Post-smolt growth effects on the pattern of marine survival of Keogh River steelhead – Kevin Friedland, NOAA NEFSC
Diversity and resilience – planning ahead – Jonathan Moore, Simon Fraser University, BC
A brief summary of climate change and related management challenges for steelhead – Nate Mantua, NOAA SWFSC
Session Six – Invited Papers
Somatic lipid content of winter and summer steelhead trout returning to the Kalama River, WA – Jamie Lamperth, WDFW
Energetics and physiology of Columbia/Snake Steelhead – Christine M Moffitt, USGS University of Idaho
Comparisons of snorkeling and electrofishing methodologies for monitoring juvenile steelhead on large spatial scales – Ron Constable, ODFW
Evaluation of spatial designs to estimate steelhead abundance using redd surveys – Martin Liermann, NOAA NWFSC
Spatial Ecological Processes and Local Factors Predict the Distribution and Abundance of Spawing by Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) across a Complex Riverscape – Jeff Falke, USGS AK Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Density dependence, hatchery releases, and environmental conditions explain annual variation in productivity of Skagit River wild steelhead – Joe Anderson, WDFW
Sex biased survival and differences in migration of wild steelhead (Oncohynchus mykiss) Smolts from two coastal Oregon rivers – Neil Thompson, OSU
Estimating residency and anadromy using sex ratio estimates – Haley Ohms, OSU
Genetic evaluation of O. Mykiss in Rock Creek – Andrew Matala, CRITFC
Influence of resident rainbow trout on steelhead populations in the Columbia Basin – Ian Courter, Mount Hood Environmental