2014 Pacific Coast Steelhead Management Meeting

March 18-20, 2014
Skamania Lodge – Skamania, WA

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Session One: Steelhead Stock Status Review


California – Jonathan Nelson, California Department of Fish and Game

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Oregon – Eric Brown, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

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Idaho – Alan Byrne, Idaho Department of Fish and Game

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Washington – Jeremy Cram, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

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British Columbia – Mark Beere, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands & Natural Resource

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Alaska – Bob Chadwick, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

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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

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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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Genomic signatures of domestication in two widely used hatchery strains – Sewall Young, WDFW

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A collaboration of two innovative technologies for VSP Monitoring of the Snake River Steelhead DPS – Mike Ackerman, IDFG

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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

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A genetic analysis of the summer steelhead stock composition in Columbia River sport and tribal fisheries – Alan Byrne, IDFG

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Session Three - Hatchery Issues


Insights into Oregon anglers: How angler opinions can help fisheries management – Kevin Goodson, ODFW

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Alternative steelhead smolt rearing strategies for locally derived broodstocks – Chris Tatara, NOAA NWFSC

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Recommendations of the California Hatchery Scientific Review Group for California’s Steelhead Programs – Russ Bellmer, CDFW

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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

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Poster Session


Hatchery Steelhead Release Strategies Used at WDFW Hatcheries to Reduce Potential Risks Posed to Native ESA-listed Fish Populations. Christina Iverson, WDFW

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Reproductive Development In Reconditioned Female Yakima River Steelhead Kelts: Evidence For Consecutive and Skip Spawning Life Histories. Andrew L. Pierce, CRITFC

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Salmon River steelhead population genetics with evidence of gene flow between headwaters. Eric LaHood, NWFSC

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Implementation of Central Valley Steelhead Monitoring - Ryan Fortier, CA DFW Fisheries Branch

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Session Four: Life History


Yakima River adult steelhead life history – Chris Frederiksen, Yakima Nation

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Emigration timing and morphology of adult steelhead in the Situk River, Alaska – Brian Marston, ADFG

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Potential influence of pink salmon on steelhead smolts in Puget Sound – Matt Klungle, WDFW

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Skagit River juvenile steelhead abundance and diversity – Clayton Kinsel, WDFW

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Using physiological tools to forecast male life-history types to aid in management of hatchery and wild Oncorhynchus mykiss – Donald Larsen, NOAA NWFSC

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Use of PIT tags to estimate adult steelhead straying in the Columbia/Snake River – Joe Bumgarner, WDFW

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Wind River steelhead: an example of significant iteroparity in the Columbia River Hydrosystem – Thomas Buehrens, WDFW

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Columbia River steelhead life cycle modeling based on PIT tags – Dan Rawding, WDFW

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Life-cycle models for the diverse and plastic Oncohynchus mykiss: Challenges and Opportunities – Neala Kendall, WDFW

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Post-smolt growth effects on the pattern of marine survival of Keogh River steelhead – Kevin Friedland, NOAA NEFSC

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Diversity and resilience – planning ahead – Jonathan Moore, Simon Fraser University, BC

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A brief summary of climate change and related management challenges for steelhead – Nate Mantua, NOAA SWFSC

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Session Six – Invited Papers


Somatic lipid content of winter and summer steelhead trout returning to the Kalama River, WA – Jamie Lamperth, WDFW

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Energetics and physiology of Columbia/Snake Steelhead – Christine M Moffitt, USGS University of Idaho

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Comparisons of snorkeling and electrofishing methodologies for monitoring juvenile steelhead on large spatial scales – Ron Constable, ODFW

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Evaluation of spatial designs to estimate steelhead abundance using redd surveys – Martin Liermann, NOAA NWFSC

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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

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Density dependence, hatchery releases, and environmental conditions explain annual variation in productivity of Skagit River wild steelhead – Joe Anderson, WDFW

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Sex biased survival and differences in migration of wild steelhead (Oncohynchus mykiss) Smolts from two coastal Oregon rivers – Neil Thompson, OSU

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Estimating residency and anadromy using sex ratio estimates – Haley Ohms, OSU

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Genetic evaluation of O. Mykiss in Rock Creek – Andrew Matala, CRITFC

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Influence of resident rainbow trout on steelhead populations in the Columbia Basin – Ian Courter, Mount Hood Environmental

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