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2021 Pacific Coast Steelhead Management Meeting
Abstracts and Presentations
Opening Remarks - Roger Harding, Steering Committee Chair, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Retired
Session One - Brief Overview/Highlights of Steelhead Stock Status Review
California - Ryon Kurth, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Oregon - Tom Friesen, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Idaho - Alan Byrne, Idaho Department of Fish and Wildlife
Washington - Dan Rawding, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
British Columbia - Robert Bison, Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development
Alaska - Matt Catterson, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Session Two - (Part 1) Genetics Updates
Can angler-assisted brood stock programs improve the catch rate of hatchery steelhead? Preliminary results from the “Biter Study”- Marc A. Johnson, ODFW
Conservation and Management of Adaptive Genomic Variation - Devon Pearse, NOAA
Evidence of Hatchery-Wild Introgression in A Winter Steelhead Population In The Green River, WA - Bethany Craig, WDFW
Using genetic analysis to assess barriers and historical distribution of steelhead in the Eel River, California - Samantha Heather Kannry, UCD
Session Two - (Part 2) Application of Genetics for Steelhead Management
The Snake River Basin Wild Steelhead Run Reconstruction Model: Genetic Foundations and Management Application - Eric Stark, IDFG
Single parent and grandparent genetic assignments, what is possible and what is not -Tomas Delomas, IDFG
Session 3 - (Part 1) - Review of Population Dynamics Models to Guide Quantitative Management
Combining matrix models and decision theory to manage steelhead harvest - Matt Falcy, ODFW
Skagit Steelhead Integrated Population Model - Mark Scheuerell, USGS, WCFW
Recent Issues in the Idaho Steelhead Fisheries and Use of an Integrated Population Model to Address Them - Lance Hebdon, IDFG
Session 3 - (Part 2) - Review of Best Management Tools Available for Use on Depressed Recreational Stocks
Integrating tools to manage steelhead fisheries - Thomas Buehrens, WDFW
Hooking mortality rates for use in steelhead fisheries - Ian Courter, MHE
Air exposure, fight times, and deep hooking rates of steelhead caught in Idaho fisheries - Luciano Chiaramonte, IDFG
Effects of fishery related fight times and air exposure on pre-spawn survival and reproductive success of adult hatchery steelhead - Don Whitney, IDFG
“Real time” steelhead escapement estimates to maximize potential hatchery harvest rates - Ben Truscott, WDFW
Generating estimates of catch for wild steelhead in recreational fisheries: Challenges and solutions - Kale Bentley, WDFW
Using recreational e-tagging data to monitor steelhead fisheries - Angela Ward and Michelle Jones, ODFW
Session 4 - Challenges and Information Needs for Oregon Steelhead
Measuring the cumulative additive effects of colonial waterbird predation on steelhead survival in the Columbia River Basin - Quinn Payton, U of W
California sea lion predation on steelhead at Willamette Falls, 2014-2019 - Bryan Wright, ODFW
Migration and survival of juvenile winter steelhead above and below high-head dams - Karen M. Cogliati, OSU
The changing North Pacific ecosystem and potential impacts to steelhead - Elizabeth Daly, OSU
Information needs for managing native winter steelhead in the upper Willamette River, Oregon - Luke D. Whitman, ODFW
Session 5 - Invited Papers
Life History Diversity and Energetic Tradeoffs of Oncorhynchus mykiss in the Utkholok River, Kamchatka - Mara Zimmerman, WDFW AND CSP
Abundance and Migration Success of Overshoot Steelhead in the Upper Columbia River - Andrew R. Murdoch, WDFW
Trends, Survival, and Productivity of Wild Steelhead in Idaho - Marika Dobos, IDFG
Environmental DNA (eDNA) Identification of Steelhead and Coho Salmon Redds in the Hoh River, WA - Sarah K. Brown and Mara Zimmerman, WDFW
Variability in harbor seal predation on steelhead smolts in the Nisqually Estuary and main basin of Puget Sound - Megan Moore and Barry Berejikian, NOAA
Ocean movements and behavior of steelhead kelts as revealed by pop-up satellite tags - Emily Miller, Monterey Bay Aquarium
The Impacts of Dam Construction and Removal on the Genetics of Recovering Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Populations across the Elwha River Watershed - Alexandra K. Fraik, WSU