Tracking Oregon’s Salmon Recovery Efforts

Here’s a pretty cool tool that should help you kill (even more) hours at the workplace: The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife’s new online Salmon Salmon Recovery Tracker website which allows you to take a very in-depth look at how salmon (mainly coho at this point, but the website will include Chinook and steelies in the future) are doing.

For example, you can look up a specific water…say the Nehalem River…and take a look at all sorts of different data sets. In this example, we’ll go with “Spawner Abundance” and then take a look at the years 2005-2010 (it will go back to 1989!). Hit the go button and {Presto} you can see how many fish were observed on a given year and then what percent of the escapement goal that number is (in this case, the river’s been ranging from 19.2% to 167% of the target number of spawners).

Anyway, there’s lots of cool stuff to dig around in here. Check it out!