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Collaborative Projects
Collaborative Projects
The following projects are conducted in partnership with several divisions or other organizations:
During the past several decades, populations of salmon and steelhead throughout the West Coast have declined to dangerously low levels.
In 1991, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) began a comprehensive review of the status of salmon and steelhead throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California.
The agency identified 52 evolutionarily significant units (ESUs), or distinct populations, of West Coast salmon and steelhead.
Twenty-six of those ESUs have now been listed as endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
In response to this crisis, NOAA Fisheries established the geographically based Technical Recovery Teams (TRTs), which are tasked with developing the technical aspects of recovery plans for each ESU. The TRTs are reviewed by the Recovery Science Review Panel (RSRP), which consists of six highly qualified and independent scientists who are tasked with ensuring the scientific credibility of the TRTs.
The Northwest Fisheries Science Center, in coordination with a private-
sector partner, developed the prototype Electronic Fish Catch Logbook
system (EFCL) to collect and systematically integrate data from
commercial vessel logbooks, landing receipts (fish tickets), species
composition and biological sampling activities. This project was
funded by the Information Technology and Innovation Fund Committee of
the National Performance Review.
Scientists W. Waldo Wakefield, NWFSC, Fishery Resource Analysis and Monitoring Division; Robert W. Embley,
NOAA PMEL, Ocean Environment Research Division; Brian N. Tissot, Environmental Science & Regional
Planning, Washington State University, Vancouver; and Mary M. Yoklavich, NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, are the principal investigators of a
NOAA National Undersea Research Program study of Hecata Bank, a 50 km-long rocky shoal on the
outer shelf of central Oregon, and a major fishing ground.
last modified
06/08/2004
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