Just got the following. The graphs and tables didn't come through.


Recent returns and this year’s forecast

 Numbers of spawning adult eulachon, as spawning stock biomass (SSB) in pounds, back- calculated from annual eulachon larvae production estimates, has been estimated since 2011 for the Columbia River and tributaries.

 Total run-size has been estimated from combined harvest and SSB estimates.

 Eulachon abundance increased steadily from 2011 to 2014, reaching a peak of 16.6 million pounds, and has since declined the past three years:



 Ocean environmental conditions were favorable for marine survival during 2012-2013, but have deteriorated the past three years.

 The 2018 return is expected to be smaller in magnitude than the 2017 return.



Recent fisheries

 Both commercial and recreational fisheries were closed to all harvest in 2011-2013.

 Very conservative reduced Level-1 fisheries were reinstated in 2014 to collect biological and catch per effort data.

 The 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 commercial fisheries each consisted of eight fishing periods over four weeks in the mainstem Columbia River.

 The recreational fishery provided: two meaningful days of harvest opportunity in the Cowlitz River during 2014 and 2015 (five days in 2014 and two days in 2015) along with an opportunity in the Sandy River; and, one day in the Cowlitz River during 2016 and 2017.