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:

2

USA Federal Agencies

1

Canadian Federal Agency

6

Tribes

5

State
Agencies

3

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

RMIS Queries
RMIS DATA QUERIES

Standard and analysis reporting query options to access data from RMIS:

Standard Reporting

Query the database and run reports of Releases, Recoveries, Catch/Sample, or Location Codes

Analysis Reporting

Query the database and run Recovery reports based on Tag Code and/or Management Fishery.

Chinook salmon
Photo Credit: ©Alaska Department of Fish and Game

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.

Photo Credit: ©Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

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

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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

Coded wire tags (CWT) queries of Releases, Recoveries, Catch/Sample, or Location Codes.

RMIS Analysis Reporting

CWT queries of
Recovery based on
Tag Code and/or
Management
Fishery.

Fish
Facilities Mapper

Monitoring Locations including dams, weirs, rotary screw traps,
PIT-tag detectors, and hatcheries.

RMPC
Maps

Map of regions and basins for each of the 8 domains, 2 region maps, and 1989 locations schema

Current Data Spec

Specifications and Definitions for the Exchange of Coded Wire Tag Data for the North American Pacific Coast, PSC Format