CP32-93-2012-3-eng.pdf

Contents
No “smoking gun”..........................................................................................................................88
DFO’s management of the fishery.................................................................................................88
An uncertain future........................................................................................................................89
Findings and recommendations...................................................................................................89
The minister’s ultimate decision-making authority ......................................................89
DFO’s responsibility to conserve wild sockeye salmon stocks .....................................90
Implementation of the Wild Salmon Policy ...................................................................91
Management of salmon farms .........................................................................................92
Fish health data and samples from salmon farms...................................................92
Minimizing risks and uncertainty .............................................................................92
Management and regulation of salmonid enhancement facilities ..............................93
Management of the sockeye salmon fishery ..................................................................93
Licensing: equalizing fees for commercial, recreational, and economic
opportunity fisheries..................................................................................................93
Pre-season forecasting and escapement target planning........................................94
The Integrated Harvest Planning Committee and the Integrated Fisheries
Management Plan.......................................................................................................94
Test fishing and hydroacoustic monitoring..............................................................94
Selective fishing..........................................................................................................95
Fisheries monitoring and catch reporting................................................................95
Stock assessment .......................................................................................................95
Definition for food, social, and ceremonial fishing.................................................96
Share-based management.........................................................................................96
In-river demonstration fisheries...............................................................................96
Transparency in the reallocation of the Fraser River sockeye salmon fishery.......96
Habitat................................................................................................................................97
Implementation of the 1986 Habitat Policy..............................................................97
DFO’s Habitat Management Program and habitat monitoring..............................97
Freshwater habitat......................................................................................................98
Water use in the Fraser River watershed...................................................................98
Gravel removal............................................................................................................98
Forestry........................................................................................................................98
Marine habitat spill response....................................................................................98
Harmful algal blooms.................................................................................................99
Contaminants research and monitoring..................................................................99
Pesticides ....................................................................................................................99
Pulp and paper, metal mining, and municipal wastewater effluents.....................99
Fisheries and habitat enforcement..................................................................................99
Fisheries enforcement priorities and funding..........................................................99
Responsibility for administration of section 36 of the Fisheries Act......................100
Habitat fishery officers.............................................................................................100
“Mortally wounded” clause.....................................................................................100
Science research .............................................................................................................100
Fraser River sockeye salmon downstream migration mortality...........................101
Fraser River sockeye salmon marine survival........................................................101
Fish health.................................................................................................................101
Harrison River sockeye salmon population...........................................................101
Cumulative effects....................................................................................................102
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