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2016 Pacific Coast Steelhead Management Meeting
Abstracts and Presentations
Session One: Steelhead Stock Status Review
California – Jonathan Nelson, California Department of Fish and Game
Oregon – Rod French, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Idaho – Brett Bowersox, 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 – Brian Marston, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Session Two - Management Session
Modeling impacts of summer and winter steelhead catch and release sport fisheries - Kale Bentley, WDFW
Morphometric variation among four distinct population segments of California steelhead trout - Farhat Bajjaliya, CDFW
Research and Monitoring Endangered Southern California Steelhead: What Is a Southern California Steelhead? - Dana McCanne, CDFW
Managing for diversity in Oncorhynchus mykiss: principles and challenges for implementation - Matt Sloat and Gordie Reeves, FS WSC
Managing ESA listed O. mykiss in the presence of multiple life history strategies. James Losee, Joseph Anderson, Lance Campbell, Andrew Claiborne, Matt Kungle WDFW
Alternative smolt rearing enables use of local natural-origin steelhead broodstock – Christopher Tatara, NOAA
Retrospective Analysis of a Natural-Origin Steelhead Population’s Response to Exclusion of Hatchery Fish - Ian Courter, Mount Hood Environmental
Steelhead Hatchery – Wild Introgression in Puget Sound, WA - Ken Warheit, WDFW
The San Clemente Dam Removal & Carmel River Reroute Project: a unique approach to dam removal - Kevan Urquhart, MPWMD
Genomic Adaptation and Conservation and Management of Life-History Variation -Devon Pearse, NMFS SWFSC
Elwha River Response to Dam Removals Through 4 Years and a 30-Year-Flood – ‘Lessons learned, channel response and sediment effects from the world’s largest engineered dam removal’ - Andy Ritchie, NPS [Presented by Amy East, USGS]
Steelhead Kelt Reconditioning and Reproductive Success Studies in the Columbia River Basin - Doug Hatch, CRITFC
Do we need to manage for iteroparity in steelhead trout - Zach Penney, CRITFC
Session Three - Implications for Managing steelhead in an evolving environment: Ocean Ecology
Retrospective analysis of Puget Sound steelhead SAR that includes comparisons to other regions and correlated environmental variable - Neala Kendall, WDFW – Presented by Erik Neatherlin, WDFW
Freshwater and marine prevalence of Nanophyetus infections in Puget Sound – Martin Chen, Long Live the Kings
Decoupling freshwater and marine effects on the early marine survival of steelhead through Puget Sound - Megan Moore, NWFSC
Harbor seal-steelhead interactions - Barry Berejikian, NWFSC
Genome wide association study (GWAS) results for steelhead smolt survival in Puget Sound - Ken Warheit, WDFW
El Niño, the Blob and Ocean Conditions - Nate Mantua, SWFSC
Half pounders, Climate Change and Blob, blob, blob – Sean Hayes, SWFSC
Session Four - Implications for Managing steelhead in an evolving environment: Drought
Overview of California drought and implications to steelhead management”- Stafford Lehr, CDFW
Wettedness surveys and steelhead (O. mykiss) rescues during two drought years in Southern California - Ben Lakish, CDFW
Development and use of high-resolution NorWeST stream and river temperature climate scenarios for steelhead assessments – Dan Isaak, USFS
Changes in production of yearling and two years old steelhead trout smolts during drought conditions in a Northern California Stream - Mike Sparkman, CDFW
Session Five - Steelhead Life History
Genetic tagging of California Central Valley hatchery steelhead reveals patterns of migration and reproduction - Carlos Garza, NMFS SWFSC
Repeat spawning, spawning survival, and reproductive behavior of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in a small coastal California stream - Seth Ricker, CDFW
Life-history diversity and ecology of O. mykiss in coastal California coastal watershed - Thomas Williams, NMFS SWFSC
Restoration of anadromy - Corey Phillis, Metropolitan Water District
The influence of geomorphology and hydrology on O. mykiss life history zonation in streams - Suzanne J. Kelson, UC Berkeley, Michael Mill UC Davis and Stepanie Carlson, UC Berkeley
Using individual life history modeling to inform management - Juan Lopez, UC Santa Cruz
Informing Puget Sound steelhead recovery plans with a life cycle model –Phil Sandstrom, WDFW
Using physiological indices to forecast life-history in hatchery reared winter-run steelhead trout, Oncorhychus mykiss in Hood River, OR – Don Larsen, NOAA
The Effect of Experimental Hatchery Manipulations on Wild Broodstock Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Growth and Behavior - Katharine E. Self, OSU, Karen Cogliati, OSU and David L.G Noakes, OSU
Session Six - Invited Papers
Using sonar cameras to monitor southern California steelhead in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties - Sam Bankston, PSMFC
Use of flow enhancement to improve late-summer rearing habitat for juvenile steelhead in the Potlatch River, ID - Brian Knoth, IDFG
Wild Central Valley steelhead still persist in Mill Creek: Results of Recent Adult Escapement and Run Timing Information Obtained Using a Video Monitoring System - Matthew Johnson, CDFW
Survival rates of steelhead released from a Columbia River seine fishery – Dan Rawding, WDFW
Using hierarchical models to estimate management reference points for coastal steelhead populations in Washington - Thomas Buehrens, WDFW
Reducing bias in pHOS in a world with hatchery hot spots – Eric Brown, ODFW
Marine subsidy contributions to steelhead diet - Alison Collins, Metropolitan Water District
Statewide Washington steelhead SNP baseline development - Todd Seamons, WDFW
Detecting anadromy in Oncorhynchus mykiss and Salvelinus confluentus by non-lethal sampling techniques - Lance Campbell, WDFW
Steelhead life history diversity in Puget Sound Rivers - Clayton Kinsel, WDFW
Effects of early vertical sorting behavior on mean family body size in hatchery reared steelhead – Neil Thompson and Michael Blouin, OSU
Poster Session
Ocean Ranch Unit Restoration Planning, Eel River Estuary, CDFW Eel River Wildlife Area - Michelle Gilroy, CDFW
California Department of Fish & Wildlife’s Steelhead Report and Restoration Card Program: Past, Present, and Future - Farhat Bajjaliya, CDFW
Central Valley Steelhead Monitoring Program - Don Baldwin, Sam Plemons, and Brian Poxon, CDFW
Southern California Steelhead: DIDSON deployments to date and implications for future research and management - Katherine D. McLaughlin, Sam Bankston and Mary Larson, CDFW
Estimating the Number of Steelhead Smolts Leaving the San Joaquin River using Acoustic Data - Gretchen Murphey, CDFW
Effects of mid 2010’s Drought on O. mykiss in the lower Merced River – Domenic Giudice, CDFW
Downstream migration success of Feather River Fish Hatchery steelhead smolts under different release strategies - Ryon Kurth, CDWR
Life on the edge: Temperature and flow restrict steelhead productivity in a large Central Valley, California river – Rob Titus, CDFW
Assessing the effects of drought conditions on Central Valley steelhead fishing – Erin Ferguson and James Lyons, CDFW
A high-resolution map of summer stream temperatures throughout the US steelhead range – Dan Isaak, USFS
Winter Steelhead Monitoring in Western Oregon: Converting Redds to Fish – Matt Weeber, ODFW
Monitoring steelhead fisheries and fish abundance in the Situk River, Alaska – Brian Marston, ADFG
Adult Winter steelhead Response to the 2014 Oso Landslide – Bethany Craig, Peter Verhey, Jennifer Whitney, WDFW
Growth potential of Oncorhynchus mykiss in the Duckabush and Hamma Hamma Rivers – Gary Marston, WDFW
Wild Steelhead Management Zones in Washington State – Christina Iverson, WDFW
Central Valley Passive Integrated (PIT) Tag Array Feasibility Study - Dave Rundio, NOAA
PIT tags in the stream: tracking genuine fish movement or rogue tags? – Kerrie Pipal, NOAA
Scale aging of Central Valley Steelhead reveals life-history difference between stocks - Lea Koerber, CDFW
Wednesday Evening Program Speaker, Dennis P. Lee: Bio