1	Yelloweye Rockfish
2	The Effect on Oregon Angling Opportunity due to Reduced Yelloweye Rockfish Catch Prepared by Don Bodenmiller Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Marine Resources Program Seaside, Oregon February 16, 2008
3	YELLOWEYE ROCKFISH PRESENTATION (Sebastes rubberrimus) PURPOSE: Review Abundance Status Review Management and Future Allowable Fishery Impacts Discuss the Likely Affect on 2009-10 Oregon Sport Fishery What can be done?
4	Yelloweye RF Life History Length – up to 3 feet Range – Aleutian Islands to southern CA. Habitat – Rocky reefs to 1,800 feet Maturity – 50% of age 20 fish are mature Longevity – Live up to 120 years Prey – Other rockfish, herring, sandlance, flatfishes, shrimp, crabs, lingcod eggs Note – it is the primary non-target species caught in the Pacific halibut fishery
5	Federal Guidelines & Court Actions Magnuson and Sustainability Acts Set guidelines on US fishery management Overfished Rockfish - rebuild abundance within a period equal to the rebuilding time without fishing plus one generation Recent court case Resulted in direction to rebuild stock abundance as quick as possible while considering the needs of coastal fishing communities
6	Pacific Rockfish stock abundance goal Goal = Abundance of 50 percent or more of un-fished levels Stock is considered overfished when abundance is <=25 percent Under 40 percent exploitation rates are reduced in order to increase stock abundance
7	Yelloweye RF Stock Assessment First assessed in 2001 and declared overfished (Oregon and N. California only assessed) PFMC area coastwide assessment in 2006 (depletion at 17.3% of un-fished abundance) Assessment updated in 2007 (depletion at 15.8% of un-fished abundance)
8	Yelloweye RF Ramp-Down Rebuilding Schedule Allowable Impacts in PFMC Area (mt) 2007 – 23.0 2008 – 20.0 2009 – 17.0 2010 – 14.0 2011 – 13.9 2012 – 14.2 2013 – 14.5 2014 – 14.7 2015 – 15.0
9	Coastwide Sharing of Impacts in 2007 Sport = 45% Commercial = 27% Tribal = 12% Research = 16% Within Sport OR = 37% WA = 39% CA = 24%
10	Oregon Sport Share of Yelloweye RF in 2009-10 2009 (ranges from 0 to 2.6 mt) 2010 (ranges from 0 to 1.9 mt) (For 2007 the OR sport share was 3.3 mt and estimated impacts were 2.8 mt)
11	Options to Reduce Yelloweye RF Impacts More offshore closure (time and area) in the groundfish fishery Shorter groundfish season Reduced halibut catch All of the above?
12	Research Activity Barotrauma Long Leader Survey
13	What can be done? Additional research Yelloweye avoidance Ideas?
14	End of Presentation