DRAFT 2009 Ocean Selective Fishery Sampling Report

The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) adopted 2009 recreational and commercial troll fisheries for all salmon species in the area between Cape Falcon, Oregon and the U.S./Canada border. Mark-selective fisheries for coho were included in all four Catch Record Card areas (Areas 1, 2, 3, and 4) for both recreational and commercial fisheries.

Council-area fisheries were adopted based on assumptions regarding coho and Chinook abundance, distribution of stocks, Chinook age class distributions, coho mark rates, compliance with selective fishery regulations, and incidental mortality. For the eleventh consecutive year, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) implemented a monitoring plan to test some of these assumptions through dockside catch and effort sampling and on-water observations of the fisheries in progress. Both dockside and on-water sampling included collection of DNA tissue samples from Chinook.