Salmon Report: 2003 review / 2004 predictions

[Pete]

Review of 2003 Ocean Salmon Fisheries

Preseason Report I Stock Abundance Analysis for 2004 Ocean Salmon Fisheries

[finclipped]

Thats good information Pete. Maybe it should be on the main board to?

[Pete]

I thought about it, but it seems "salty" :grin:

[Born to be Wild]

Excellent source of info Pete!
Thanks for posting these URL's!

Now you can see why I so extensively debated/argued with the special interest groups last year that said in 2003 we were going to have a 50-62% drop in OCN's.
I told them that was nonsense and if you look at the last few years preseason predictors the model doesn't work.

Anyway we had another fabulous return of wild coho to the Oregon coast!

Year-Preseason-Postseason-%Preseason/Postseason
2001 50.1 163.2 0.31
2002 71.8 304.5 0.24
2003 117.9 278.8 0.42
2004 150.9

163,000 spawner's in 2001 and that was the parent year for this (2004) years return.
Could get quite interesting!

Dano