Port Orford's Marine Reserve

At Port Orford's Redfish Rocks marine reserve, scientists and fishermen
are equipping rockfish with transmitters. The goal is to determine if
the reserve contributes to the area's overall rockfish population, a
mainstay of this Southern Oregon fishing community.

Videography and editing by Justin Smith
Script and narration by Lee Sherman
Underwater footage provided by David Golden with Golden Marine Consulting

Special thanks to:

Port Orford Ocean Resource Team
Redfish Rocks Community Team
The Port Orford fishing community
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Oregon Lottery
Mamie Markham Research Award from the Hatfield Marine Science Center
Adopt-a-Fish Program contributors

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Fishing
• Hatfield
• Marine Science
• Marine reserves
• Marine Science & the Coast
• Port Orford
• Scott Heppell
• Selina Heppell
• Tom Calvanese

[bgoodwin424]

@axsundiver Luckily, all of the moorings stayed in place during the tsunami.

[bythepark]

Scientists are conducting this research to learn about the movement behaviors of six commercially and recreationally valuable fish species which live there. Their work will provide baseline information about fish behavior in this area prior to the closure of the reserve. This data will help us measure how the closure affected local fish populations in the future.

---alan

[axsundiver]

How did your acoustic stations stand up to the tsunami surge?

[DrMayorJim]

This is a great video describing some of the ongoing research in our Redfish Rocks Marine Reserve/Marine Protected Area.