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1:00-5:00 pm TSC Sponsored Visual Assessment Methods pre-meeting
Co-chairs: Kristen Green, Dayv Lowry, Lynne Yamanaka
6:00-9:00 pm 18 th Western Groundfish Conference registration and social orientation: volunteers and session moderators
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8:00
8:30
Registration
Opening Remarks – Rick Stanley
Groundfish Anthem – Milton Love
9:00 John Field, S. Ralston, K. Sakuma, B. Wells, J. Santora, I. Schroeder, W. Sydeman, J.
Phillips and R. Brodeur
Rockfish (Sebastes) recruitment and ecosystem indicators for the California Current,
1983-2013.
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9:40
Alejandro Frid
Predator-prey interactions as litmus tests for ecological recovery: can the concept apply to groundfish management?
Susanne McDermott, E. Olsen, L. Buhl Mortensen, E. Morland Olsen, D. Hart, A. Haynie,
W. Stockhausen, P. Spencer, J. V. Olson, T. Johannessen, E. Moksness, and G. Dahle
Can marine protected areas achieve their goals as management tools in northern regions? Practical lessons from Alaska, New England, and Norway.

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10:00 Refreshment Break
10:30 Carrie Wall, R. Rountre, and Francis Juanes
Understanding the marine soundscape off Vancouver Island: An exploration of passive acoustic data from the NEPTUNE Canada ocean observing system.
10:50 Linsey Arnold, B. Owashi, S. Piacenza, A. Jara, and S. Heppell
Feasibility of data-poor methods to inform small-scale regional management of Oregon nearshore groundfish stocks.
11:10
11:30
Selina Heppell, L. Arnold, A. Jara, B. Owashi, and S. Piacenza
Assessing nearshore groundfish with local information for management at smaller spatial scales.
Robyn Forrest, A.R. Kronlund, K. Rutherford, and K. Holt
Using closed loop simulation to evaluate alternative management procedures for
Hecate Strait Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus): a data-limited stock with highly uncertain dynamics.
11:50 Kelli Johnson, K. Aydin and A. Punt
Using time-series data and Bayesian methods to infer the substructure of Pacific cod
(Gadus macrocephalus) populations in Alaska.
12:10 pm Lunch Break
1:00 Kari Fenske, D. H. Hanselman, and T. J. Quinn II
A spatially-explicit and age-structured stock assessment of North Pacific sablefish,
Anoplopoma fimbria.
1:20 Andi Stephens, L. Arnold, S. Heppell, S. Hilber, and B. Owashi
Applying a length-frequency based analysis to inform regional-scale fisheries management.
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2:40
LaTreese Denson and D. B. Sampson
The influence of spatial assumptions and the environment on stock assessment results.
Kendra Holt, A.R. Kronlund, and S.P. Cox
Evaluation of management procedures for British Columbia rock sole stocks.
Ian Stewart and S. Martell
Moving beyond the ‘best assessment’ paradigm – the International Pacific Halibut
Commission experience.
James Ianelli
Modeling the growth ecology of eastern Bering Sea pollock: Implications for management recommendations.
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3:00 pm Refreshment Break
3:30 David Sampson
Areas-as-fleets selectivity for modeling spatially structured catch-at-age.
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4:10
John Wallace
Applying Information from the U.S. West Coast’s first major trawl bycatch and mesh size studies to fishery data using post-hoc fishing strategies and geographical areas.
Brandon Owashi and D. Sampson
The effect of spatial scale on the data-poor method, DB-SRA.
4:30 Benjamin Williams, G. Kruse, and M. Dorn
Sampling design influence on walleye pollock maturity rates in the Gulf of Alaska.
4:50 Adjourn
6:00-9:00 pm POSTER SESSION
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8:00 am Registration
8:30 Kevin McNeel and A. Rebert
Using otolith measurements to detect population characteristics and improve data quality.
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9:50
April Rebert, K. McNeel, and R. Dinneford
The value of groundfish otolith measurements.
Sandi Neidetcher
The use of image-analysis software in evaluating spawning strategy and fecundity rates of walleye pollock, Theragra chalcogramma.
Karson Coutre, A. Beaudreau ,and P. Malecha
Seasonal and ontogenetic patterns of resource use by juvenile sablefish, Anoplopoma
fimbria, in southeast Alaska.
Mary Elizabeth Matta and Tom Helser
Otolith biochronologies reveal latitudinal differences in growth of Bering Sea yellowfin sole Limanda aspera.
10:10 am Refreshment Break
10:30 Katherine Schmidt, R. Starr, S. Hamilton, and G. Cailliet
Life history changes in female blue rockfish, Sebastes mystinus, before and after overfishing, in central California.
10:50 Amy Jo Lindsley and Scott Heppell
The juvenile rockfish of Yaquina Bay, Oregon.
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11:10 Susan Sogard
Patterns of movement, growth, and survival of adult sablefish in slope waters off
Oregon.
11:30 Yongwen Gao
The groundfish stocks from stable isotope records of otoliths in Washington.
11:50 Kristen Green, J. Stahl, and M. Byerly
Using a remote operated vehicle to assess rockfish stocks in Southeast Alaska: a tale of two cameras.
12:10 pm Lunch Break
1:00 Cheryl Barnes, R. M. Starr, D. E. Wendt, and G. T. Waltz
MPA monitoring: more than just the latest and greatest in marine conservation trends.
1:20 Elizabeth Conners, C. Conrath, and P. Tschersich
Habitat pot gear for fishing octopus in Alaska.
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2:00
2:20
2:40
Howard McElderry, M. Beck, and J. Schrader
The US shore-based Whiting EM program 2004 to 2010: what did we learn?
Troy Guy, S. L. Jennings, R.M. Suryan, E. F. Melvin, and M. A. Bellman
Overlap of North Pacific albatrosses with the U.S. west coast groundfish and shrimp fisheries.
Steve Whitney
A large multi-species catch share program after six years: successes and works in progress.
Sarah Valencia, J. Wilson, J. Cope, D. Wendt, and R. Starr
Collaborative reserve-based monitoring of nearshore rockfish: balancing information costs against management performance.
3:00 Refreshment break
3:30 Jennifer Cahalan
Departures from randomized sampling of commercial catches in the Alaska groundfish fisheries.
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4:10
4:30
Katherine Pierson and B. E. Huntington
Go Fish! Using hook-and-line surveys to establish ecological baselines in Oregon’s marine reserves.
Szymon Surma and T. J. Pitcher
An ecological assessment of sablefish fisheries in British Columbia using the RAPFISH rapid appraisal technique.
Rhema Bjorkland and M. McClure
Developing move-on rules to reduce rockfish bycatch in US West Coast trawl fisheries.
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4:50 James Lindholm, M. Gleason, D. Kline, L. Clary, and S. Rienecke
Ecological effects (or lack thereof) of bottom trawling on the structural attributes of fish habitat in unconsolidated soft-bottom sediments.
5:10 pm Adjourn
6:30 Evening social at Milestones sponsored by Archipelago Marine Research
8:00 am Registration
8:30 Jahnava Duryea, R. M. Starr, G. M. Cailliet, and L. Young
A comparison of four methods to anesthetize a Pacific nearshore rockfish, Sebastes
carnatus.
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9:10
Cara Rodgveller, Pat Malecha, and Chris Lunsford
Survival of deep-water rockfish after recompression in portable pressurized tanks.
Chris Rooper, K. Williams, A. De Robertis, and R. Towler
Rockfish behavior in response to underwater vehicles and lights.
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Chris Lundsford, M. Stachura, P. Malecha, and C. Rodgveller
Effect of hook spacing and bait type on sablefish catch rates.
Rick Starr, M. Gleason, J. Field, H. McGonigal, D. Kline, and S. Rienecke
What’s Up? The Rockfish Conservation Areas a Decade Later.
10:10 am Refreshment Break
10:30 Cindy Tribuzio and K. Andrews
Pop-off tagging of spiny dogfish in the eastern North Pacific Ocean.
10:50 Bob Pacunski, D. Lowry, L. Hillier, and J. Blaine
Comparing bottomfish density estimates and species compositions derived from paired benthic trawl and remotely operated vehicle surveys.
11:10
11:30
David Somerton
The US West Coast rockfish issue: joining current bottom trawl estimates of abundance to acoustic and optical estimates made in untrawlable habitat.
Katy Echave
Can satellite tagging shed light on sablefish, Anoplopoma fimbria, movement during the spawning season?
11:50 Jessica Moye and J. Lindholm
Gender-mediated habitat utilization by Kelp Greenlings (Hexagrammos decagrammus) along the Central Coast of California.
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12:10 pm Lunch Break
1:00 Dayv Lowry, R. Pacunski, L. Hillier, and J. Blaine
Evaluation of two study designs for estimating groundfish abundance with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV): capabilities and shortcomings of habitat-stratified and randomized uniform sampling.
1:20 Heather Kelley, J. Lindholm, and R. Kvitek
The red rockfish complex: predicting distribution and habitat associations along
California’s central coast using landscape ecology techniques.
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Ashley Knight, J. Lindholm, H. Kelley, and J. Moye
Steep, rugged, and rocky: Using multibeam-derived models to predict groundfish distributions at San Clemente Island, California.
Joe Bizzaro, K.M. Broms, M. Logdon, D.A Ebert, L. Kuhnz, and A.P. Summers
Spatial segregation in eastern North Pacific skate assemblages.
Kotaro Ono and O. A. Shelton
Signs of local depletion in the US West coast groundfish?
Matthew Yergey, W. W. Wakefield, and L. Ciannelli
Distribution and abundance of young-of-the-year groundfish off the Oregon coast: an initial look.
3:00 pm Refreshment Break
3:30 Katie Wrubel, B.N. Tissot, E. Bowlbly, K. Brenkman, and J. Bright
Fish-habitat associations and the importance of deep-sea corals in Olympic Coast
National Marine Sanctuary.
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Megan Bassett and J. Lindholm
Distribution and habitat utilization of Lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus) off California: implications for conservation and management.
Jodi Pirtle, T. C. Weber, C. D. Wilson, and C. N. Rooper
Seafloor characterization for trawlability using a multibeam echosounder in the Gulf of
Alaska.
Sean Rooney, B. N. Tissot, W. W. Wakefield, and J. E.R. Getsiv-Clemons
Groundfishes, Deep-sea Corals, and Sponges: Examining Diel Patterns of Fish-habitat
Associations on Heceta Bank, Oregon.
Jackson Chu and V. Tunnicliffe
Redistribution of the epibenthic soft-bottom assemblage in shifting hypoxic conditions.
5:10 pm Adjourn
5:30 pm No-host bar
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7:00
Guest Speaker: DR. VERENA TUNNICLIFFE
Banquet and presentations
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8:00 am Registration
8:30 Christina Conrath
Delayed discard mortality of the giant Pacific octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini, captured as bycatch in the Gulf of Alaska.
8:50
9:10
Peter Kuriyama
The past two years of catch shares in the West Coast Groundfish fishery: effort shifts and changes in bycatch rates.
Mathew Eagleton and G. R. Hoff
Skate nursery Habitat Areas of Particular Concern (HAPC) in the Eastern Bering Sea.
9:30 Mark Lomeli and W. W. Wakefield
Testing of an industry-designed bycatch reduction device to reduce the incidental catch of Pacific halibut.
9:50 Jason Gasper, C. Tribuzio, and M. Furuness
Shifting a management paradigm: managing by numbers instead of weight for large species.
10:10 am Refreshment break
10:30 Lisa Lacko
History lesson: Canadian Commercial Fishing at Northeastern Pacific Seamounts.
10:50 Josh Keaton
Industry organized management plans as an option for managing high effort fisheries.
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Lynn Mattes, P. Mirick, D. L. Erickson, and G. Kirchner
Developing a New Fishery: The Journey from Idea to Implementation.
Scott Wallace, B. Turris, B. Mose and J. Driscoll
World’s first habitat bycatch limit as part of an ecosystem approach to bottom trawling in British Columbia.
11:50 Closing remarks
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