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Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council
290 - 858 Beatty Street

Vancouver, BC
Canada V6B 1C1

Telephone:
604 775 5621

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604 775 5622

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About the conservation council: info@fish.bc.ca

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This annual report presented a summary of the publications and primary recommendations of the PFRCC in the preceeding year. It also provided an account of the activities in support of salmon protection and habitat restoration, and the perspectives of Council members on matters including the capacity of regulatory and management agencies to conserve Pacific salmon.

This report takes a look behind the debate, examines the information and assumptions supporting the arguments of opposing interests, and deepens the current public understanding about potential impacts of salmon aquaculture on wild salmon. The report's focus was on the interplay of salmon farming and wild salmon, not on all aspects of the potential impacts of salmon farming. Instead, the report concentrates on the most pressing issues pertaining to farmed salmon/wild salmon interactions.

This report explains how the recreational and sports salmon fishery evolved in British Columbia and how it has undergone significant growth in the last century. The dual challenge of designing conservation measures and enduring fishing opportunities for anglers is one of the themes of the report. The authors explain  that the long-term sustainability of both salmon and sports fishery are inextricably linked, and effective conservation is an imperative.

This report is in support of strategy 2 of the Wild Pacific Salmon Policy (WSP). This report recommends specific indicators that can be utilized to describe habitat status. It makes further recommendations including that of undertaking pilot implementation to learn as we go.

This paper traces the trends in fisheries management from the 1960s to the present period. The report does much to inform the public on how the fishery has evolved from a large industrial scale to the current smaller more controlled scale designed to improve salmon conservation. The commercial salmon fishery has undergone significant changes to improve conservation of the salmon resource. The report argues that the high conservation bar set to protect wild salmon and economically viable commercial fisheries are not mutually exclusive.

Currently, many western North Amercian heritage plants and animals are being lost due to careless use of water and this cannot be rectified until they attain preferred status for access to this important life-giving resource. Salmon and steelhead populations are among the species impacted by excessive human use of water.