Progress Report for 2007 Chinook Encounter Study

The chinook annex of the 1999 PSC Agreement mandates that the Chinook Technical Committee (CTC) use estimates of total mortality to assess the impacts of fishery regulations in PSC fisheries. The current methodology uses landed catch for establishing quota values and harvest sharing between the parties. This project is focused on development of information necessary to create a new model for fishery regulation analysis. The objectives of the study reflect the requirement for the CTC to produce new estimates of stock impacts which include all sources of mortality. The goals of this project are to estimate the number of chinook salmon released and stock composition of all encountered chinook salmon in the Washington ocean and Puget Sound troll and sport fisheries.