News
6/13/2011 Recovery Tracker 2.0 Released
Version 2.0 of the ODFW Salmon and Steelhead Recovery tracker has officially been launched. Major changes have been made based on user feedback and research into how to improve the overall flexibility and scalability of the website. This will become more apparent in later releases this year. Updates in this release include:
- a new internal data model that supports the variety of reporting unit designs used by ODFW across species and regions as well as distinguishing between different runs of salmon and steelhead. Some design considerations were inspired by a data model developed by NOAA’s ISEMP group.
- new datasets for Lower Columbia Coho including marine survival, harvest, hatchery stray, occupation, spatial distribution and freshwater survival. More to come later this year. See the data download tool for more information
- administrative tools for uploading datasets and their field definitions
- enhancements to the summary table builder and download features including the ability to access information at multiple reporting levels
Enjoy, the Salmon Recovery Tracker Team
9/10/2010 Official Website Launch
The Salmon and Steelhead Recovery Tracker has been officially launched. Updates since the beta release include a more streamlined site design, improved metadata delivery, and new datasets including site-specific abundance and site descriptions. The site is currently focused on coastal coho salmon, though there are some additional datasets available for download. Future versions of the site will include data on other species and in other regions.
8/23/2010 Web Services and NOAA
While the ODFW Salmon Recovery Tracker website allows users to download data for further analysis or explore recovery trends via the charts online, there are other data requests that are better suited to being handled automatically at the database level. For example, NOAA Fisheries is tasked with gathering states' and tribes' monitoring and evaluation information, producing status reports and plans, and regularly reporting their findings to Congress. As a result of this ongoing, data-rich work, ODFW staff spend considerable time responding to outside data requests.
In the interest of streamlining recurring data requests, ODFW plans to establish a web service agreement with NOAA Fisheries. Web services allow independent organizations to communicate data without intimate knowledge of or access into each other's IT systems behind the firewall.
At this time, the ODFW/NOAA web service is intended to be a one-way exchange whereby relevant salmon population data in ODFW’s Recovery Tracker database are sent directly to NOAA Fisheries for inclusion in their Salmonid Population Summary (SPS) database. We anticipate the ODFW/NOAA web service becoming available in 2011. To learn more about how NOAA uses state and tribal salmon and steelhead data, visit their new Salmon Population Summary database website.
4/28/2010 Welcome
Thank you for visiting our newly launched website. We appreciate any feedback that you'd like to provide.
10/02/2009 Adult abundance now available at ESU and Strata level for Coho
Adult abundance or spawner information, previously only available at the populations level has now been aggregated and made available at the Strata and ESU level.