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Research at the WFRC focuses on the environmental factors responsible for the creation, maintenance, and regulation of fish populations including their interactions in aquatic communities and ecosystems. Within these pages you will find research information on Pacific salmon; western trout, charr, and resident riverine fishes; desert and inland fishes; aquatic ecosystems and their resources.
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Western Fisheries Science News, May 2019 | Issue 7.5
Interactive Data Visualization Tool Allows Us to Explore Fish Use of Eelgrass Habitat in Puget Sound
Western Fisheries Science News, February 2019 | Issue 7.2
Identifying Habitat Characteristics for Successful White Sturgeon Recruitment in the Columbia River Basin
The State of Olympic National Park – The Natural Resource Condition Assessment
The USGS and National Park Service (NPS) have published the first Natural Resource Condition Assessment for Olympic National Park. A Natural Resource Condition Assessment, or NRCA, is a report that evaluates a subset of important natural resources in a NPS Unit.
Publications
Review of trap-and-haul for managing Pacific salmonids (Oncorhynchus spp.) in impounded river systems
High-head dams are migration barriers for Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp. in many river systems and recovery measures for impacted stocks are limited. Trap-and-haul has been widely used in attempts to facilitate recovery but information from existing programs has not been synthesized to inform improvements to aid recovery of salmonids...
Kock, Tobias; Ferguson, John W.; Keefer, Matthew L.; Schreck , Carl B.
Fish assemblages in eelgrass beds of Bellingham Bay, Washington, Northern Puget Sound, 2019
Puget Sound is a critical part of the Pacific Northwest, both culturally and economically. Eelgrass beds are an important feature of Puget Sound and are known to influence fish assemblages. As part of a larger site-characterization effort, and to gain a better understanding of the fish assemblages in Bellingham Bay, Washington, four eelgrass beds...
Andrews, Morgan I.; Liedtke, Theresa L. Shifting food web structure during dam removal—Disturbance and recovery during a major restoration action
We measured food availability and diet composition of juvenile salmonids over multiple years and seasons before and during the world’s largest dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington State. We conducted these measurements over three sediment-impacted sections (the estuary and two sections of the river downstream of each dam) and compared these...
Morley, Sarah A.; Foley, Melissa M; Duda, Jeffrey J.; Beirne, Mathew M; Paradis, Rebecca L; Johnson, Rachelle Carina; McHenry, Michael L.; Elofson, Mel; Sampson, Earnest M; McCoy, Randall E; Stapleton, Justin; Pess, George R.