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Selective Fishing Research in Washington State

Publications Ashbrook, C.E., J.R. Skalski, J.D. Dixon, K.W. Hassel, and E.A. Schwartz. In press. Estimating bycatch survival in a mark-selective fishery. Fourth World Fisheries Congress Publication. American Fisheries Society. Ashbrook, C.E., K.W. Hassel, J.F. Dixon, and A. Hoffmann. Tangle nets. 2007. Pages 363-384 in D.H. Johnson, B.M. Shrier, J.S. O’Neal, J.A. Knutzen, X. Augerot, T.A. O’Neill, and T.N. Pearsons. Salmonid field protocols handbook: techniques for assessing status and trends in salmon and trout populations. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, Maryland. Vander Haegen, G.E., C.E. Ashbrook, K.W. Hassel, and J.F. Dixon. 2004. Survival of spring Chinook salmon captured and released in a selective commercial fishery using gill nets and tangle nets. Fisheries Research 68: 123-133. Reports Evaluate Selective Fishing in the Willapa River, a Pacific Northwest Estuary: 2007 Evaluate Live Capture Selective Harvest Methods - February 2002 Evaluate Tangle Nets for Selective Fishing: Semi-Annual Progress Report, February 1, 2001 Tangle Nets and Gill Nets as a Live Capture Selective Method to Collect Fall Chinook Salmon Broodstock in the Okanogan River: 2004 Coming Soon Migration and movement patterns of adult Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) above Wells Dam: 2005 Development and testing of selective fishing gear as a broodstock collection method for Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in the Okanogan Basin: 2006