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ODFW Aquatic Inventories Project
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ODFW's Oregon Plan Monitoring Program for Coastal Basins |
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Oregon Plan Habitat ODFW Monitoring Programs: Spawning Surveys
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What is the Oregon Plan?
The Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds is a broad-based effort of citizens, local watershed groups, the State of Oregon, and federal agencies to restore healthy salmon populations and their watersheds. The most important part of the Plan is the idea that people working together, with the support of state and local government, can do more to help fish than could be accomplished by a strict regulatory approach. The Plan has been in effect since 1997. Hundreds of projects designed to improve stream habitat and watershed conditions have been completed. Support for watershed groups, SWCD’s, and landowners has brought people together to develop stream restoration plans tailored to the needs of the local community. For more information: Oregon Plan
for Salmon and Watersheds Monitoring Program Activities Monitoring programs under the Oregon Plan for Salmon
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Watersheds are designed to assess the status and trends in fish
populations and
aquatic habitat in Oregon's coastal
Stream habitat assessment is conducted by the Aquatic Inventories Project. The sampling is targeted at two spatial scales, the monitoring area and coho population area. Monitoring areas are comprised of stream habitat in large geographic areas that supports populations of coho, Chinook, and chum salmon, and steelhead and cutthroat trout. Population scale sampling focuses only on stream habitat within individual basins that support juvenile and adult coho salmon. Surveyors collect information on channel size, flow, substrate composition, large wood, habitat complexity, and riparian characteristics. Contact: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) Juvenile Salmon Population Census
Survey sites
will vary in length. Field crews will
spend about one day at each site over the summer sampling period. Contact:
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)
Contacts: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) Salmonid Life Cycle Monitoring Project: Smolt Trapping
In 1998, as part of the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds (formerly the Coastal Salmon Restoration Initiative) the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) began a program to monitor survival and downstream migration of salmonid fishes (Oncorhynchus spp.) As a part of this program the Salmonid Life-cycle Monitoring project developed three objectives; 1) estimate abundance of adult salmonids and downstream migrating juvenile salmonids, 2) estimate the marine and freshwater survival rates for coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and 3) evaluate the effects of habitat modification on the abundance of juvenile salmonids in Cummins and Tenmile Creeks. Contacts: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)Erik Suring (541) 286-5328 http://nrimp.dfw.state.or.us/crl/default.aspx?pn=SLCMP
Stream Health – Biotic Index Measurement Measurements of aquatic insects, aquatic plants, water quality, fish communities, and habitat are combined to create an integrated assessment of stream condition. The length of stream sampled ranges from about one-quarter to one-half a mile. Crews spend a day at each site. Contact: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality |
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