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Location: Fraser River Basin, province wide Project Summary
The Integrated Salmon Dialogue Forum is a collaborative and inclusive forum for all interests to work towards a fully integrated sustainable salmon fishery in ways that respects the Wild Salmon Policy and serves both people and salmon. Specifically, 1. The Forum is a “place” where conversations across sectors that might not otherwise happen can happen on the most difficult and intractable issues facing the salmon fishery. It is a big picture, high beam, across all sectors and regions (i.e. province and coast wide) process, informing itself where helpful on “low beam”, on-the-ground, watershed-specific experience. 2. The Forum works through the incubation of new ideas/approaches/possibilities to the issues identified by the Forum which can draw support across sectors and bring them forward to inform existing decision making structures, both within governments and sector based organizations. 3. The Forum is a place for the participants, “to do something different” and “to do it differently” in cross-sectoral conversations as a partner, not a proponent. 4. The Forum exists as a place for each partner to articulate what interests it seeks to advance through its participation, and as such represents a place for all participants to make known the goals and interests it seeks to advance. Final Results The first main task of the Integrated Salmon Dialogue Forum was to identify shared goals and interests, and collaboratively develop a Forum Descriptor. The goals of the Forum were agreed to by all parties at their inaugural meeting on January 29, 2007. They are as follows: a. Developing shared principles that can have broad application across an integrated and sustainable salmon fishery, and relevant processes. b. Enabling broadly based interests connected with the salmon fishery to identify and address underlying issues. c. Developing innovative possibilities to assist the diverse interests associated with the fishery to reach common ground and generate enduring solutions. d. Building collaborative relationships, networks and partnerships through which different sectors will have an opportunity to express and advance concerns and interests, and explore how they might best create mutual value. e. Stimulate and inform discussions within existing processes in ways that support and enhance the management of an integrated fishery. f. Carry out the work of the Forum at two levels: a “high beam” - e.g., regional, policy, long term and a “low beam”, specific ground level, operational. OTHER TASKS & OUTCOMES 1. Provision of an ongoing forum for dialogue among key interests regarding establishing a fully integrated and sustainable salmon fishery in BC. Improved relationships and communication among participants; collaborative framework for interaction and issue identification; new ideas and approaches to problems. 2. Development and implementation of specific projects, as and when identified by the working groups. Multi-sector engagement on four main topics, namely: access; monitoring and compliance; integrated river and resource management; and governance. Specifically: * On-the-river knowledge of diverse fishing practices, fisheries and monitoring and compliance practices;
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