Monitoring Results from the 2000 Ocean Recreational Selective Fisheries from Leadbetter Point to the U.S. Canada Border

The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) adopted selective recreational fisheries for coho in all four ocean areas from Cape Falcon, Oregon to the U.S./Canada border as well as the Buoy 10 fishery in the Columbia River estuary. This paper is a report on the three areas north of Leadbetter Point (Catch Record Card Areas 2, 3 and 4).

When the Council set the 2000 selective fisheries, assumptions were made about coho and chinook abundance, distribution of stocks, coho mark rates, compliance with the new regulations, and incidental mortality. For the second consecutive year, a monitoring plan was implemented to test some of these assumptions through dockside catch and effort sampling along with direct on-water observations of the fisheries in progress.