Oregon’s Commercial Fisheries David Sampson Professor of Fisheries Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station With help and funds from the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife
Oregon’s Commercial Fisheries Average Pounds million / yr Av. Landed Value $69.6 million / yr Groundfish Shellfish Other Salmon Albacore
Canary Rockfish Darkblotched Rockfish Some of Oregon’s Groundfish Longspine Thornyhead Dover Sole
Oregon’s Commercial Fisheries Groundfish Pounds Shoreside Fishery for Whiting
Oregon’s Commercial Fisheries Groundfish Landed Value
Some of Oregon’s Shellfish
Oregon’s Commercial Fisheries Shellfish Pounds
Oregon’s Commercial Fisheries Shellfish Landed Value
Why Fisheries Need Managing
Fishermen go fishing because we buy the fish they catch. When fishing is good and the fishers make good money, more fishers join the fishery. They don’t stop joining until they stop making good money.
The fish belong to everyone. The fish belong to no one. The fish belong to the fishers. The fish are dead. Long live the fish!
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