March 13-15, 2012
Fort Worden - Port Townsend, WA

Agenda

Summary of the Thirteenth Pacific Coast Steelhead Management Meeting

Session One: Steelhead Stock Status Review

California – Jonathan Nelson, California Department of Fish and Game
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Oregon - Kevin Goodson, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
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Idaho - Alan Byrne, Idaho Department of Fish and Game
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Washington - Bob Leland and Anne Marshall, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
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British Columbia - Sue Pollard, BC Ministry of Forests Lands & Natural Resource Operations
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Alaska - Brian Marston, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
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Session Two - Life History Updates

Response of a steelhead population and stream habitat to wildfire in a central California chaparral watershed - David Boughton, NOAA
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Contribution of resident O. mykiss to anadromous populations. Implications for VSP analysis - Rich Carmichael, ODFW
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Effect of differing age structure in steelhead populations within an MPG on productivity estimates used in VSP analysis - Tim Copeland, IDFG
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Iteroparity in SE Alaska steams: Importance of repeat spawning to sustained production - David Love, ADFG
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Natural stray rates - What’s a stray and how can we measure it? Insights from Steelhead populations in the Copper River and Prince of Wales Island - Jeff Olsen, USFWS
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How do we incorporate all this variation in a steelhead VSP analysis. Some insights using ‘what-if?’ modeling - Tom Cooney, NOAA
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Session Three - Hatchery Issues

Ecologic and demographic costs of releasing non-migratory juvenile hatchery summer steelhead - Charlie Snow, WDFW
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Lower Snake River Compensation Plan Steelhead Program - A retrospective and program adaptive management - Mark Schuck & Joe Baumgarner, WDFW
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Is interbreeding of wild and hatchery winter steelhead prevented by divergent life history? - Todd Seamons, WDFW
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Variation in the effectiveness of alternative broodstock, rearing and release practices - Upper Columbia River Summer Steelhead - B. Gale, USFWS
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Variation in the effectiveness of alternative broodstock, rearing and release practices among three supplemented steelhead populations - Hood Canal, WA - Barry Berejikian, NOAA
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Strategies to Maximize the Efficiency of Using Parental Based Tagging as a tool to Meet Management and Research Objectives - Carl Stiefel, IDFG
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POSTER SESSION

ESA Coverage of Steelhead Harvest in Puget Sound Salmon and Steelhead Fisheries - Amilee Wilson, NOAA
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Genetic Estimation of Stock Abundance and Run-timing of Interior Columbia River Steelhead Passing Bonneville Dam - Jon Hess, CRITFC
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Columbia River alternative gear studies: Preliminary survival estimates of steelhead caught and released in commercial purse and beach seines - Josh Holowatz, WDFW
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A comparison of the nutritional and energetic status of kelts from the Snake River and coastal Situk River, AK using blood plasma metrics - Zachary Penney, University of Idaho
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Steelhead smolt migration and survival in Oregon Coastal Rivers - David Noakes, OSU
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Diminished reproductive success of steelhead from a hatchery supplementation program (Little Sheep Creek, Imnaha Basin, Oregon) - Ewann Berntson, NWFSC
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Restoring anadromy: Identifying historic fish passage beyond natural obstacles in the Oregon Cascades - Sierra Lewis, OSU
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Steelhead monitoring program in California: Past, present and into the future - Jonathan Nelson, CDFG
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Session Four: Steelhead Data, Monitoring and Management: Approaches to Steelhead Monitoring and Management with Decreasing Budget

Mark-resight estimates using PIT and Floy tags to estimate adult steelhead responses to Hemlock Dam removal in SW Washington - Charlie Cochran, WDFW
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Decomposing Lower Granite Dam steelhead runs into tributary escapement estimates using instream PIT tag arrays - Chris Beasley & Jody White, QCI
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Comparisons abundance estimate based on PIT Tag detection and weir operations in Snake River tributaries - Jason Vogel, NPT
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Genetic based approach to steelhead population estimates above Lower Granite Dam - Matt Campbell, IDFG
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Estimates of steelhead harvest rates based on PIT tag sampling in Columbia River Fisheries - Steve VanderPloeg, WDFW
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Examination of angler catch by stock composition of summer steelhead in the Deschutes River, OR 1977-2011: Why don’t hatchery fish bite? - Jason Seals, ODFW
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Factors influencing redd observer efficiency in the Wenatchee Basin - Chad Herring, WDFW
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Estimating steelhead redd abundance and variance based on redd observer efficiency - Andrew Murdoch, WDFW
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Directed acyclic graphs: A tool to incorporate uncertainty in steelhead redd based escapement estimates - Danny Warren, WDFW
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An approach for developing biological reference points for steelhead populations in the Lower Columbia River - Bryce Glaser, WDFW
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Integrated Status & Trend (ISTM) Project: An overview of establishing, evaluating and modifying monitoring priorities for Lower Columbia River Steelhead - Jeff Rodgers, ODFW
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Estimates of steelhead escapement from video counts - Ken Gates, USFWS

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Videos:

9 13 clear sth pink coho (.wmv)
9 1 Sth coho coho (.wmv)
9 1 Muddier p-c-s (.wmv)
anchor did on (.wmv)
Anchor River King 6-30-2011 (.wmv)
ayukulik video (.wmv)
chinook hatchery and wild (.wmv)
Sex ID sth (.wmv)
Traditional weir video (.wmv)
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Session Five: Invited Papers

Puget Sound steelhead abundance near the turn of the 20th century estimated from commercial catch record data - Nick Gayeski
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Origin and run-timing of hatchery steelhead strays into the spawning grounds of two eastside tributaries of the Deschutes River, OR - Derrek Faber, ODFW
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Reduced recruitment performance in natural populations of anadromous salmonids associated with hatchery-reared fish - Kevin Goodson, ODFW
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Physical habitat characteristics contribute to life history variation among seven Oncorhynchus mykiss populations in Hood Canal - Lance Campbell, WDFW
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Life history responses of Oncorhynchus mykiss to selective processes in early life - Matthew Sloat, OSU
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The influence of sex and migration distance on the expression of anadromy in Oncorhynchus mykiss - Haley Ohms, OSU
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Sex reversal or selection against hatchery females does not explain differences in sex ratio between hatchery and wild steelhead, Oncorhynchus mykiss - Neil F. Thompson, OSU
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Update on development of a nomenclature for steelhead - Hal Michael, Retired WDFW
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Steelhead Wisdom & Humor - Bob Hooton
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Session Six: Invited Papers

Discussion of winter steelhead R/S and implications for management - Hal Michael, Salmonid Ecosystem Ecologist
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Synergistic impacts of climate change: Increased temperature and flooding and the persistence of endangered steelhead in southern California - Matthew Sloat, OSU
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Differential productivity for Coho-based on other species escapement - Leon Shaul and Harold Geiger (presenter Roger Harding), ADFG
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Friend or Foe: Influence of resident trout on steelhead production in the Yakima Basin - Ian Courter, Cramer Fish Sciences
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Maybe it wasn’t hatchery fish; environmental possibilities to steelhead decline - Wes Hoppler, Steelhead Trout Club of WA
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The clean-water paradox: Impacts of Troy WWTP on juvenile steelhead habitat - Hal Michael, retired WDFW and Ricardo Sanchez-Murillo, University of Idaho
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Western Washington winter steelhead stock structure - Todd Kassler and Ken Warheit, WDFW
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Part 1: Management and recovery implications of wild/hatchery steelhead interactions within a large complex watershed - Skagit River, WA - Dave Pflug and Ed Connor, Seattle City Light
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Part 2: Management and recovery implications of wild/hatchery steelhead interactions within a large complex watershed - Skagit River, WA - Dave Pflug and Ed Connor, Seattle City Light
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