North Pacific Salmon Monitoring Inventory

Validation Workshops

The North Pacific is vast and information becomes obsolete quickly, so we endeavored to validate the North Pacific Salmon Monitoring Inventory (the Inventory) results where possible. We held a validation workshop for the U.S. Pacific Northwest in November 2006 and then one in Canada in July 2007. An exciting series of expert-opinion-derived maps resulted from the first workshop, and work is ongoing to finish the validation process in British Columbia and Yukon Territory.

Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho (WOCI)

On November 8th and 9th, 2006 in partnership with the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP), State of the Salmon Program hosted:

An Expert Workshop to validate quantitative data gaps: how well can we assess trends in salmon abundance and productivity?

Our goal was to produce a compelling and credible means to portray how well we can assess trends in salmon abundance and productivity across the region. With the help of fisheries experts throughout WOCI, we created a geographically explicit dataset we refer to as "maps of knowledge."

Biologists from around WOCI spent two days sharing their knowledge about the availability and quality of long-term salmon data. As a result, we can portray, in map form, how well trends in salmon abundance and productivity can be assessed at the population and metapopulation level from central California to the Canadian border.

British Columbia and Yukon Territory

On July 11th and 12th, 2007 in collaboration with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, State of the Salmon Program hosted:

An Expert Workshop to validate quantitative data gaps: how well can we assess trends in salmon escapement?

Our objective was to identify those monitored streams that provide the most reliable escapement estimates for Conservation Units defined under Canada's progressive Wild Salmon Policy (WSP). Leading Canadian fisheries researchers worked for two days to validate Inventory monitoring activities that might be suitable for setting and tracking escapement benchmarks as called for in the WSP. Results from the workshop are available as a downloadable Excel document (Post-workshop review packet) by following the link to the right. Since not all researchers could make it to the workshop, thereby leaving gaps in the review, the validation process is continuing remotely and under the auspices of a larger partnership with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada. For more information about current work, click here.

Results from the workshop are available below and a final report will be made available after the information collection stage is complete.

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