Beyond the Mixed stock fishery: Better salmon management through participant-based salmon fisheries | |
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Year
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2009 |
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Proponent
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Chehalis Indian Band |
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Project type
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Fisheries |
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FSWP funding source
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Living Rivers |
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Grant amount
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$28,250 |
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Total project value
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$43,000 |
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ID number
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09-LR62-F |
Location:
Fraser Valley
Project Summary
Overview
This project will engage First Nations in the Harrison Watershed and others with access to chum salmon. The goal is to create the capacity within the Harrison Watershed to build effective conservation and management plans with links to WSP CUÕs and broader Fraser stock assessment activities to support integrated harvest planning.
Outcomes will explicitly address escapement goals and associated stock assessment programs to conserve wild chum salmon in the watershed; it will explore practical ways to protect FSC needs; and, in collaboration with other FN, industry, sport fishers and conservation groups, provide the basis in the WSP for developing integrated commercial salmon fishing plans involving both marine and freshwater fisheries that harvest Harrison River stocks. Enhancement plays a major role in the management of Lower Fraser/Harrison chum. Understanding the contribution of hatchery chum to natural spawning populations, and developing enhancement strategies that compliment the management and harvest of wild lower Fraser chum is essential to sustaining lower Fraser chum salmon and the fisheries and communities that depend on both wild and enhanced chum salmon.
Objectives
1. Develop partnerships in analysis of Lower Fraser Chum CU with specific attention to TEK and FSC fisheries in the Harrison/Lillooet watershed and adjacent lower Fraser River
2. Assemble available Chum data (DFO) and FSC information (First Nations) and undertake analysis and consultations on the associated WSP Benchmarks
3. Engage First Nations and other affected fisheries in consultations on the CU as the basis for reviewing the escapement goal and FSC as an integral part WSP
4. WSP implementation; how can target/limit reference points for lower Fraser chum protect FSC fishing needs (and the diversity First Nations depend upon) while sustaining commercial and sport fisheries.
Methods
Harrison Stock Assessment Table
1) Consultation and partnership building meetings (Harrison, Lillooet, and Lower Fraser First Nations);
2) A Harrison/Lillooet (H/L) CU and FSC fishery data inventory, analysis, and assessment;
3) Draft an evaluation framework to determine the data requirements for this plan and then draft a
supporting outline for a conservation and management plan, with specific attention to CU escapement
benchmarks and FSC fisheries.
FRAFS Joint Technical Table
4) Review draft H/L chum CU with interim limit and reference point benchmarks that ensures rights based fishery needs are met and identifies any economic opportunities for all
Harrison/Lower Fraser/Marine Fishery Table
5) Engage in functional tier one, two and three watershed tables that are linked to associated technical working groups such as the ITFT, FRAFS Technical Committee, the Fraser Salmon Table, and Integrated Salmon Dialogue Forum (monitoring and compliance).
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