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Partners include Robert Gresswell (USGS-FRESC Cooperative Forest Ecosystem Research), Patrick Connolly (USGS Columbia River Research Laboratory), Rowan Gould (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), Cameron Sharpe and Dan Rawding (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife), David Peterson (University of Washington and USDA Forest Service), and Sherry Pittam (Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering).

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Cutthroat Trout Bibliography Database

map image from database web site
Middle Columbia-Hood Rivers Pilot Study map with distribution data and associated literature [image: screen capture from database web site]

The Coastal Cutthroat Trout Bibliography Database contains hundreds of literature references pertaining to the research on Coastal Cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki clarki) from multiple organizations. These resources have been gathered into a single database and are now searchable through two methods:

  • Use clickable maps to search a region of interest
  • Use a prepopulated form to 'browse' the information

Water sub-basins form the basic division of information. From there the user can access literature (including some gray literature) by selecting primary streams in the basin chosen. Data is also cross linked so that literature covering multiple basins are accessible from one another.

Link: Cutthroat Trout Bibliography Database


This database should be cited as follows: Gresswell, R. E., and P. J. Connolly. Geo-referenced database for coastal cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki clarki of Washington and Oregon. USGS - FRESC and USGS - WFRC, Corvallis, OR

Cutthroat Trout Bibliography Database Overview

Painting of Camp Creek Cutthroat Trout [art: Cameron Thomas, USGS]
Painting of Camp Creek Cutthroat Trout [Art: Cameron Thomas, USGS]

Coastal cutthroat trout historically occurred throughout coastal drainages of Oregon and Washington and in most lower Columbia River tributaries east to Fifteenmile Creek in Oregon and the Klickitat River in Washington. Sea-run populations of cutthroat trout once supported robust recreational fisheries. In the lower Columbia River, for example, coastal cutthroat trout supported a large sport fishery as recently as 1985, but sport-angler catch and effort has dramatically declined since then. Throughout their range, sea-run cutthroat trout have declined in the past 20 years, and their status may be more critical than other anadromous salmonids of the Pacific Northwest. Many populations are considered depressed and some may be extinct.

Coastal cutthroat trout were petitioned for listing under the Endangered Species Act in 1997. The species was recently classified as sensitive in Oregon. Little information was available on the status of nonanadromous (potamodromous) forms of this species. There was a critical need to identify the location, life history form (e.g., anadromous or nonanadromous), estimated size, and likelihood of persistence for existing populations of coastal cutthroat trout in Oregon and Washington. The database helps address this issue.

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