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Salmon Workshop

 

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Date of last revision:  February 20, 2003

 

Preliminary Program Schedule for
The 21st Northeast Pacific Pink and Chum Salmon Workshop

Fairmont Empress Hotel, Victoria, B.C., Canada

February 26-28, 2003
Please Note:

  1. the scheduled presenters for each of the papers listed below are underlined

  2. the proposed times for each of the sessions (and order of presentations within each session), coffee breaks etc. are preliminary and subject to change, please check this website closer to the workshop to obtain the most current schedule.

Wednesday, February 26

 

Registration     9:00 am – 12:45 pm (approx.)

(in the Palm Court)

 

Welcome and Introduction     1:00 pm – 1:10 pm

Bruce White (PSC) and Greg Bonnell (CDFO)

 

Session I.  Conservation Biology and Endangered Species

1:10 pm – 3:30 pm (approx.)

 

Session Leader: Jim Irvine (CDFO)

  • Species at risk protection in Canada (Don Lawseth, CDFO)

  • Review of Broughton Archipelago pink salmon stock status (Blair Holtby, CDFO)
  • Spatio-temporal variation of sea lice infection on Pacific Salmon
    (Marc Trudel; John F.T. Morris, and David W. Welch, Pacific Biological Station)
  • Infestation of the sea louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) on juvenile pink salmon in British Columbia (Alexandra Morton, Raincoast Research; Richard Routledge, Alan Walker, Corey Peet, Rob Williams, and Aleria Ladwig)
  • An international perspective on the role of lice from salmon farms in variations in wild salmonid population.  (Alasdair H. McVicar, Aquaculture and Fish Health, CDFO)
  • Panel discussion on this session

Coffee     3:30 pm – 3:50 pm (approx.)

 

Session II.  Biology and Ecology (Part 1)     3:50 pm – 4:50 pm (approx.)

 

Session Leader: Pieter Van Will (CDFO)

  • Why are they digging?  A study about male digging behavior in the Oncorhynchus genus (Manu Esteve: University of Barcelona)
  • Effects of fish wheels on fall chum salmon: non-esterfied fatty acids and plasma indices of stress.  (Pete Cleary, ADF&G)
  • The mechanisms of sex regulation in pink and sockeye salmon populations (Nickolay A. Chebanov and Popova T.A.: KamchatNIRO, Russia)

Social and Poster Session 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

 

Join the group in the Palm Court to view the posters. Appetizers and refreshments will be available.

 

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Thursday, February 27

 

Registration desk will be open (times not yet confirmed)

 

Session II.  (continued) Biology and Ecology (Part 2)

8:25 am – 9:10 am (approx.)
  • Updated stock status of pink and chum salmon in Southeast Alaska through 2002 (Steve Heinl, ADF&G; T.P. Zadina; A.J. Mcgregor; and H.J. Geiger)
  • Pink salmon migratory energetics: response to migratory difficulty and comparisons with sockeye (Glenn T. Crossin, Scott G. Hinch: University of British Columbia)

Session III.  Marine Survival and Forecasting Runs

9:10 am – 11:10 am (approx.)

 

Session Leader: Leroy Hop Wo (CDFO)
  • Multi-stock state-space models for estimating trends in stock-recruit dynamics of Pacific salmon (Brian J. Pyper, Juneau School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences; Milo D. Adkison; and Randall M. Peterman)
  • A spatial hierarchial Bayesian model for multi-stock stock-recruitment analysis of Pacific salmon (Zhenming Su, Simon Fraser University)
  • Factors governing pink salmon survival in Prince William Sound, Alaska (Richard E. Thorne, Prince William Sound Science Center)
  • Short term tagging of chum salmon as a harvest management tool.  (Michael Folkes, CDFO)

Coffee 10:30 am – 10:50 am (approx.)
  • Comparison of alternative measures of salmon productivity for quantifying spatial and temporal scales of climate-induced variation (Brian J. Pyper, Juneau School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences; Milo D. Adkison; Steve Ignell; and Randall M. Peterman)

 

Session IV.  Habitat Assessment and Restoration

11:10 am – 12:30 pm (approx.)

 

Session Leader: Mel Sheng (CDFO)
  • Puntledge River high temperature study: influence of high water temperatures on adult pink salmon pre-spawning mortality, maturation and gamete viability (John O.T. Jensen; W.E. Mclean; Ted Sweetin, CDFO)
  • Rebuilding the salmon runs to the Stave River - a cooperative effort of harvest reduction, enhancement, habitat restoration, and flow control (Donald Bailey, Roberta Cook, CDFO)
  • River modeling applications: habitat enhancement opportunities (example River2D on Campbell River, Shuswap Rivers) (Alf Leake, Darren Sherbot, B.C. Hydro)

Lunch 12:30 pm – 1:40 pm (approx.)

 

Session V.  Education and Community Involvement

1:40 p.m. – 3:20 pm (approx.)

 

Session Leader: Tom Rutherford (CDFO)
  • Attitude enhancement - how incubating chum in the classroom can foster a stewardship ethic (Don Lowen, CDFO)
  • The importance of re-establishing chum populations in urban streams (Peter McCully; Tom Rutherford, CDFO)
  • Pinks for the pier (Dave Ewart, CDFO)
  • The restoration of Douglas Creek (Robert Bridgeman, Friends of Mount Douglas Park Society)
  • "The Pink Salmon Festival": take a kid fishing (Laurie McBride)

Coffee 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm (approx.)

 

Session VI.  Genetic Applications to Fisheries Management

3:40 pm – 5:00 pm (approx.)

 

Session Leader: Jim Shaklee (WDFW)

  • Origin of juvenile chum salmon from Gulf of Alaska coastal waters based on hatchery thermal marks and genetic divergence (Chris Kondzela and Richard Wilmot: NMFS, Auke Bay Lab)
  • Toward a coast-wide baseline for chum salmon (John Candy, Terry Beacham, K.D. Lee, Pacific Biological Station)
  • Chum salmon genetics, morphology, and life history in the southern portion of the species range (Columbia River, Oregon and California) (Orlay Johnson, NMFS; Eric Iwamoto; F. William Waknitz; and Jeffrey Hard)
  • A genetic analysis of summer and early fall chum salmon populations in Hood Canal, Strait of Juan de Fuca and South Puget Sound, using microsatellite DNA (Maureen P. Small and Sewall Young, WDFW)

Poster Viewing     6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

 

View the posters and other displays in the Palm Court  if you have not seen them yet.

 

Banquet and Guest Speaker     7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

 

Please join us for our banquet dinner in the Crystal Room with our guest speaker Dr. Richard Thomson (Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia).

 

Many draw prizes to be won.

 

Please register for the banquet dinner now, since our host hotel needs to know the number of attendees well in advance of the workshop.  Banquet tickets will NOT be available at the workshop

 

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Friday, February 28

 

Registration desk will be open (times not yet confirmed)

 

Session VII.  Enhancement Issues and Techniques

8:25 am – 11:00 am (approx.)

 

Session Leader: Brian Pearce (CDFO)

  • Does size matter (for Prince William Sound pink salmon) ? (Alex Wertheimer, W.R. Heard, and W.W. Smoker, NMFS)
  • Chum salmon supplementation: bane or boon ? (Jim Ames, Kyle Adicks: WDFW)
  • Supplementation standards for recovering ESA-listed threatened summer-run chum salmon populations in the Hood Canal and Strait of Juan de Fuca regions of Washington (Tim Tynan: NMFS; Chris Weller, Thom Johnson: WDFW)
Coffee 9:45 am - 10:05 am (approx.)
  • On-going summer chum supplementation in Washington State (Thom Johnson: WDFW; Chris Weller)
  • The Hatchery, Scientific Reform Group - it's mission for Puget Sound and coastal Washington hatcheries (Trevor P.T. Evelyn)
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Closing comments and adjournment of Workshop.

 

Business Meeting 11:00 am (approx.)

 

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Poster Presentations

 

Preliminary List of Posters for 21st Northeast Pacific  Pink and Chum Salmon Workshop

Fairmont Empress Hotel, Victoria, B.C., Canada

February 26-28, 2003

 

Session VIII.  Poster Session

 

Session Leader: Tracy Cone (CDFO)

 

  • Benthic fauna, juvenile fish feeding and food interrelations in Basis Chum Salmon Hatchery Watersheds (Kamchatka) (Tatyana L. Vvedenskaya, T.L. Travina, D.Y.Khristova, Kamchatka Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia)

  • Some aspects of stock structure and abundance dynamics in the Paratunka River chum and pink salmon populations, East Kamchatka (Oleg L. Zaporzhets, and G.V. Zaporozhets, Kamchatka Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia)

  • Fixed-location hydroacoustics as a method of enumerating adult pink salmon in the lower Kwinamass River, 2001-2002 (Richard J. Bussanich, Robert C. Bocking, LGL Limited environmental research associates; Donald J. Degan, Acoustics Inc.)

  • Migration and run timing of summer vs. fall chum salmon on the Yukon River (Judy Berger, Bonnie Borba, Lisa Seeb, ADF&G)

  • Video of spawning behavior in pink and chum salmon (Manu Esteve, University of Barcelona)

  • Use of the Kalman filter and state-space models of stock and recruitment to estimate trends in productivity of 120 stocks of Pacific Salmon (Brian J. Pyper and Milo D. Adkison, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Randall M. Peterman, Simon Fraser University)

  • Recovering threatened summer chum in Quilcene Bay (Tom Kane, Larry Telles, USFWS, Washington)

  • Population dynamics of chum salmon in the Columbia River Gorge (Nancy Uusitalo, USFWS, Washington)

  • Fraser River pink salmon stock assessment program (Brad Fanos, Tracy Cone, Ken Peters, Rick Rempel, Rob Tadey, CDFO, Vancouver)

  • Fish tank and poster display - "Partners in Stewardship" (CDFO, Watership Foundation, Howard English Hatchery and 100 Capital Regional District Schools)

  • Acoustic imaging; a new frontier in fish research (Tim Mulligan, Peter Withler, George Cronkite, and John Holmes, PBS)

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