Promotional Material
Videos
Oregon Albacore Commission (10 minute video)
Learn more about how Oregon albacore are caught, processed and prepared in this 10 minute video.
Oregon Albacore Commission (3 minute version)
Brochure
Exhibits
Charleston Marine Life Center, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
Charleston, Oregon
The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology is the University of Oregon’s marine biology research and teaching field station.
Visit the fisheries gallery to see an Oregon albacore display and watch the coming and going of fishing vessels on the docks as they unload and sort their catch.
Touch screens and display panels provide information on Oregon’s commercial fisheries. Images, stories, and recorded interviews connect visitors to the diverse catch and gear, and to the management efforts supporting the fisheries.
Pacific Maritime Heritage Center
Newport, Oregon
Our Beautiful & Wild Oregon Fisheries
150 Years of Innovation
This exhibit tells the story of our fishermen, fish processors, fishery managers, scientists, conservation groups and port communities meeting the challenges and opportunities of wild harvest fisheries to feed a growing population.
Museum visitors will be afforded a rare opportunity to be immersed in the fascinating and little understood story behind Oregon and the Yaquina Bay’s far reaching and economically vital commercial fishing fleet.
The largest fisheries in Oregon: Dungeness crab, pink shrimp, albacore tuna, Chinook salmon, groundfish, and pacific whiting are central to this exhibit.
Politics, regulations, globalization, consumer food preferences, environmental conservation, and old fashion seat-of-your pants ingenuity have all shaped the region’s commercial fishing fleet and maritime culture.
Education
The Oregon Albacore Commission received a Farm to School Grant through the Oregon Department of Education and conducted a pilot project to introduce five Oregon fisheries to 5th grade students. Throughout the school year, students learned about Albacore Tuna, Salmon, Dungeness Crab, Pink Shrimp and Groundfish (sole, rockfish, Pacific Whiting).
Each fishery unit included guest speakers, slide presentations, posters, tasting opportunities, multi-disciplinary activity books, and a culminating Jeopardy game. The salmon and albacore units also included take-home dinner bags.
Join along in this seafood education project by clicking on the tiles with the seafood logos. Regardless of age, we’re sure that you will learn something new about the fisheries and have fun along the way.
After completing the activity books, test your knowledge with this Jeopardy-style quiz.
Multi-disciplinary activity books
Vocabulary
Anatomy of the species and life cycles
Word searches
Crosswords
Reading comprehension
Math
Art
Writing
Public Speaking
Games and songs
Posters/Handouts
Some of these posters can also be seen on the bayfront at Newport, Oregon to educate visitors about local fisheries
Videos and slide presentations
Community Partner Videos
Saskia Madlener, an Oregon State University documentary film maker created a series of three interdependent videos that are a montage of individuals, eloquent voices and images that weave together the components of fishing community resilience: connection, bravery, perseverance, cooperation, passion, lifelong learning, innovation, leadership, independence, and adaptation. She created the series from the fishing community oral history research that began in the mid 2010s. Although not professionally recorded, over the years over 50 interviews were gathered that documented what it’s like living and working in the Oregon commercial fishing community.
