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About RMPC

REGIONAL MARK PROCESSING CENTER

Provides essential coordination and data exchange services to international, tribal, federal, state and private fisheries organizations involved in marking anadromous salmonids throughout the Pacific region.

Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Sellwood, Portland Oregon Office location.
Photo Credit: Dan Webb. PSMFC

Data Providers

EXCHANGING CODED WIRE TAG DATA

RMPC manages the data exchange specification and validates all data submitted to the Regional Mark and Information System (RMIS).

Data are submitted from:

USA Federal Agencies

Canadian Federal Agency

Tribes

State
Agencies

Tribal
Consortium

As juvenile fish grow they are eventually transferred to raceways and ponds to continue growing until release.
Photo Credit: Dan Webb, PSMFC.

RMIS

REGIONAL MARK INFORMATION SYSTEM
DATA CATEGORIES

Location

Release

Recovery

Catch/ Sample

Standardized codes for recovery sites, catch/effort areas, release facilities, release locations and stocks

Detailed salmon release data including CWT codes, release sizes, dates, and locations

Description of where, when, and how marked fish were recovered, and other data such as maturity and run timing.

Summarized information about catch, number sampled, and CWT recovery data

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife staff recording number of fish caught by anglers.
Photo Credit: Dan Webb

PSC

SUPPORTING PACIFIC SALMON COMMISSION

In 1989 the U.S. Section of the Pacific Salmon Commission (PSC) selected RMPC to house and maintain a database for U.S. coded-wire tag data. RMIS serves this purpose and is also the designated site for sharing data with Canada

RMPC staff serve as co-chair of the PSC Technical Committee on Data Sharing and its Data Standards Work Group which maintain and update the PSC data specifications

Coded wire tag data supports PSC technical committee analyses that evaluate management actions, escapement goals, enhancement programs, and conservation efforts to prevent overfishing and ensure all user groups have appropriate harvest opportunity.

Seiner SE Alaska.

BPA & NPCC

COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN
FISH AND WILDLIFE PROGRAM

RMPC supports the Northwest Power and Conservation Council's Fish and Wildlife Program funded by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). BPA funded work that use CWT submit their data to RMIS. These data are publicly available and inform mitigation for lost harvest, hatchery effectiveness, and informs other critical uncertainties identified in the Council's 2017 Research Plan for the Fish and Wildlife Program.

Fishing along the river bank.
Photo Credit: Dan Webb

ESA NOAA Fisheries

INFORMING ENDANGERED SPECIES MANAGEMENT AND RECOVERY

Coded wire tag recoveries inform the management and recovery of ESA listed salmon stocks by supporting:

Science-based fishery management and harvest rate assessments

Evaluation of avian predation impacts such as Caspian tern predation on juvenile salmon

Salmon incidental catch assessments and salmon bycatch reduction measures

Fall Chinook salmon migrating to spawning grounds in the Columbia River Basin, near Bonneville Dam , Oregon.
Photo Credit: AW (Tony) Grover

The Regional Mark Processing Center (RMPC) provides essential coordination and data exchange services to international, tribal, federal, state and private fisheries organizations involved in marking anadromous salmonids throughout the Pacific region.

RMPC maintains a coast-wide data system that provides the best available information in a timely manner to support stock assessments and research. This data system, named the Regional Mark Information System (RMIS), also serves as the only U.S.A. database for exchanging coded-wire tag data for meeting the Pacific Salmon Commission’s information needs under the Pacific Salmon Treaty.

RMIS provides access to these standardized data primarily through two web-based queries: the RMIS Analysis Reporting and the RMIS Standard Reporting.

RMIS Standard Reporting

RMIS Analysis Reporting

Fish
Facilities Mapper

RMPC
Maps

Current Data Spec

A FISHERIES DATA PROJECT OF

THE PACIFIC STATES MARINE FISHERIES COMMISSION

RMIS Standard Reporting

RMIS Analysis Reporting

Fish Facilities Mapper

RMPCMaps

Current Data Spec

Fish
Facilities Mapper

RMPC
Maps