As the principal for Cramer Fish Sciences, Steve leads consulting teams of
scientists, biologists, and technicians in resolving fisheries — and human —
issues around the West.
Responsibilities: Leading the CFS team from the front,
Steve Cramer is widely recognized as a respected leader in evaluating the effectiveness
of hatcheries, and for evaluating salmon and steelhead populations, smolt
passage, and survival for Chinook salmon.
Projects/Services: During Steve Cramer's career, he has
developed extraordinary expertise in leading innovative research projects
and programs. He is responsible for creating habitat-based models for
estimating stream carrying capacity, and leading projects relating carrying
capacity and survival to habitat features. He also led the experimental
design and analysis of data from snorkel and habitat surveys in the Great
Basin and the Umpqua, Clackamas, and Sandy River Basins to determine
relationships of salmonid rearing densities to habitat features, among
other research.
Background: Steve Cramer has been a fisheries consultant
to private firms, state and federal agencies, and Indian tribes for the past
17 years, after serving 14 years with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife,
where he directed major research programs on the Rogue and Columbia basins.
Throughout his career, the focus of his research
and consulting has been the population dynamics of salmon and steelhead populations
in the western United States. He has authored or co-authored eleven peer-reviewed
journal articles and over 130 reports on a wide variety of fisheries topics.
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