OREGON Fishermen in Ocean Observing Research

Last Updated on Friday, 05 February 2010 21:15

Oregon Fishermen in Ocean Observing Research (OrFIOOR) began in 2005 and is a program designed to engage commercial crab fishermen in the collection of nearshore oceanographic data.  To date, hundreds of thousands of temperature and dissolved oxygen measurements have been made with this program from the waters of Port Orford all the way to Astoria, Oregon.  These data will be available soon in a variety of formats for scientists, fishermen, and other interested parties.

In the News

In August of 2009, Oregon Field Guide accompanied one of the participating fishermen on his boat as he hauled his last pots of the season.  Five of these pots contained the dissolved oxygen units that we designed and created as part of this program and others contained temperature sensors (see below).  The episode should be airing in February or March, 2010, so stay tuned for more information.

*Jeremy (right) describing the use of temperature sensors in the OrFIOOR program to a film crew from Oregon Field Guide (Image courtesy Jordan Windholz 2009)

Be sure also check out these articles written about the program:

Newport News Times (June 2009)

Oregon Public Broadcast (June 2009)

Discovery.com Animal News (September 2009)