salmon - Sport Fishing Institute of BC

A new era for the
Recreational Fishery
Conservation Stamp.
A new era for the
Recreational Fishery
Conservation Stamp.
2012 Recreational Fishery Conservation Stamp in 2013
# of Projects Stamp Funds
Total Value
Spring
55
$297K
$2.15 M
Fall
48
$428K
$2.66 M
TBD
28
$447K
$2.54 M
TOTALS
131
$1,172K
$7.35 M
Note: > 25% of recreational license
holders do not purchase the stamp.
2012 Results
More than $180,000
Donated by Sport Fishing Sector
in 2013
THANKS!
Recreational
Fishing Partners
2 Reel Fishing Adventures
Adam’s Fishing Charters
Avid Sportfishing
Becker's Lodge
Black Gold Lodge
Cariboo Lodge
Chromer Sportfishing
Clayoquot Wilderness Resort
Cowichan River Wilderness Lodge
Critter Cove
Delta, YVR
Dent Island Lodge
Dolphins North Lodge
Dolphin's Resort
Duncanby Lodge
Eagle Nook Resort and Spa
Eagle Pointe Lodge
Fishing Kyuquot – Rugged Point Lodge
Fraser River Lodge
Freedom Charters
Gibby’s Fishing Charters
Good Hope Cannery
Good Time Dave’s Fishing Charters
Great River Fishing Adventures
Haggard Cove
Hakai Land and Sea Society
Harrison's Cove Lodge
Island Outfitters
Island Sportfishing Adventures
Jimmy Jack Charters
Kyuquot Lodge
Langara Fishing Adventures
Last Cast Guiding
Leisure Suit Charters
Lodge at Gold River
Lodge at Tahsis Harbour
Marina West Motel
McKay Bay Lodge
Murphy Sport Fishing
Naden Lodge
Nice Fish
Nicholas Dean Lodge /
Yellow Cedar Lodge
Nielsen’s Fishing Lodge
No Limit Charters
Nootka Island Lodge and
Moutcha Bay
North King Lodge
Oak Bay Marine Group: April Point Resort,
Painters and Pedder Bay Resort.
Peregrine Lodge
Pro Line Sports
Qualicum Rivers Winter
Harbour Fishing Lodge and Resort
Queen Charlotte Lodge
Reel Obsession Sport Fishing
Roger Gage
Ryan Bell
Sea Beam Lodge Ltd.
Sea Spider Charters
Shane Bradley
Shearwater Resort and Marina
Stamp River Lodge
Steep Island Lodge
Tani-Lyn Fishin’ Charters
Tofino Swell Lodge
Tweedsmuir Park Lodge
Vancouver Sport
Fishing Center
West Coast Fishing Club
West Coast Resorts
Conservation
Contribution
2 Reel Fishing Adventures
Avid Sportfishing
Chromer Sportfishing
Duncanby Lodge
Eagle Pointe Lodge
Haggard Cove
Hakai Land and Sea Society
Lodge at Gold River
Marina West Motel
Naden Lodge
Nicholas Dean Lodge / Yellow Cedar Lodge
Qualicum Rivers Winter Harbour Fishing Lodge and
Resort
Reel Obsession Sport Fishing
Shearwater Resort and Marina
Vancouver Sport Fishing Center
West Coast Resorts
2013
2013
Highlights
Highlights
How to Get
Involved
• Silent Auction Easel
• Conservation Contribution
• Foundation Dinner Donation
Contact Sonora Morin
smorin@psf.ca or (250) 202-0037
Restoring a Lost Fishery: an introduction to the
Salish Sea Marine Survival Project
Presented by Brian Riddell, CEO, Pacific Salmon Foundation (604-763-1899 or
briddell@psf.ca ) November 21, 2013
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SALISH SEA (PUGET SOUND,
STRAIT OF GEORGIA AND
JUAN DE FUCA STRAIT
Total catch (troll + sport) of Chinook and Coho salmon in
the Strait of Georgia, 1970 to 2008
Chinook
Coho
1,500,000
Coho variation is a
combination of behaviour
and survival rates.
Catch (in pieces)
1,200,000
900,000
600,000
300,000
PST implemented
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Catch year
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Fishing effects are not limiting recovery but likely did contribute to the initial depression
of spawners as their productivity rate declined.
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Marine survival rate is the % of the juveniles that emigrated to sea that are estimated
to have survived to Age-2 pre-fishery cohorts (abundance); estimated with CWT data.
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Issues to address:
1. Major changes observed widely.
2. Lots of studies & concern … NO ACTION
3. Little integration of research efforts (fragmented
efforts on singular topics /times/locations)
4. Significant impacts on local communities … social,
economic, and ecological costs.
5. Uncertainty on how to proceed & lack leadership.
With a few exceptions: DFO trawl surveys, DFO Science’s ERI projects, and
development of VENUS program at UVIC (information and opportunities).
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Ignoring the issue is not much of a legacy!
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Science team:
BE Riddell (DFO*)
RJ Beamish (DFO*)
B. Devlin (DFO)
AP Farrell (UBC)
S. McFarlane (DFO*)
K. Miller-Saunders
(DFO)
A Trites (UBC)
A Tautz (Prov. BC*)
C Walters (UBC)
* Indicates Retired
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Pacific Salmon Foundation supported projects:
1. Acoustic tagging of Chilko Lake sockeye salmon smolts (1st time,
4 years)
2. Re-examination of Harbour Seal diets in the Strait of Georgia
(PhD, UBC)
3. Development of the Strait of Georgia Data Centre (UBC,
supported by the Sitka Foundation, 2012-2014).
4. Cowichan Bay pilot study … how to differentiate very early
marine mortality from dispersion of smolts leaving the river?
5. Support for SeaGrass Conservation Society and ForageFish.BC
(community based mapping and habit restoration).
2012 … Goldcorp donation of $1 Million over 3 years in support of SoG project
and administration.
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October 17, 2013
$5 Million over 5 Yr
Salish Sea Marine Survival Project
U.S. NOAA Fisheries
Washington Dept. Fish & Game
Puget Sound Partnership
Dept. Fisheries & Oceans
Port Metro Vancouver
NGO’s and
Local Communities
Top-Down Controls
PATHOGENS
/ DISEASE
MARINE
MAMMALS
SALMON
AQUACULTURE
SALMON
HATCHERIES
Habitat Restoration
SALMON
Biological
Interactions
Forage fish base
WILD SALMON
Ichthyoplankton
Zooplankton
Phytoplankton
Bottom-up Controls
Annual weather variation
Physical & Chemical Oceanography
How will the balance of $7.5M be met?
1) Key step: Recreational Fishery stamp revenue
$300,000 / year with current stamp = $1.5 Million over 5 years.
2) Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund ... @ 1% use of principle =
$1.5 Million over 5 years.
3) Other Foundations, Corporate, and Private donations,
target is $2 Million over 5 years.
4) Government of Canada contribution
i.
… options:
match the PSC contribution of $2.5 Million over 5 years.
ii. Modest increase in stamp fee dedicated to SoG project*.
iii. Both, as a hybrid plan for $2.5 Million over 5 years.
Buzz Holling and Eddy Carmack: Community-based Science
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Pertinent Measurements
The Case for Community-based Small Vessel Science
Figures showing (left) the scaling feedback loop from IPCC to C3O to community-based monitoring to public policy and finally
back to the IPCC; and (right) the concept of converting fishboats into science-capable vessels (measuring vertical profiles of
Temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbitity and chlorophyll fluorescence; water sampling for nitrate, phosphate silicate
and oxygen and carbon isotopes; collecting net hauls for zooplankton and bottom grabs for benthos; acquiring water column
and benthic video; and measuring underway profiles for temperature, salinity, currents and multi-frequency bioacoustics.
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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Building a conceptual framework:
What are the primary controls on Chinook and Coho production?
ABIOTIC CONTROLS
(Environmental variables)
Annual weather patterns
Climate change/trends
Match / Mismatch hypotheses
(timing of events)
Oceanographic parameters
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BIOTIC CONTROLS
Harbour seal predation
Habitat impacts / Development
Fishing pressures
Hatcheries/inter-species
competition for food
Pathogens & Disease
Aquaculture interactions
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Our primary
hypothesis is that:
Environmental factors
now control annual
production of Chinook
and Coho in the Strait of
Georgia.
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Biological controls
Simultaneously … test biological factors for potential impacts and
opportunities for intervention. Can’t start with biological
interactions as no two years are identical.
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Biotic studies on smaller scales:
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Predator surveys for species currently not assessed.
Marine grasses and kelp restoration and mapping.
Examination of forage fish spawning and restoration (Herring?)
Examination of sea lice impacts on juvenile Chinook and coho salmon.
Community Network (habitat mapping project )
Assessment methods and Data Management systems:
1. Ensure there are adequate CWT groups to conduct comparisons
(Riddell and DFO)
2. Web-based data management system (Art Tautz)
3. Analysis and modelling (C. Walters and modeller)
4. Web-based community communication tool (PSF website)
5. Otolith processing and analysis lab (tbd, UVic)
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Community Engagement … PSF could facilitate:
Implement an adaptive management (recovery) plan based on:
a) interim catch targets,
b) large scale manipulations (experiments), and
c) monitoring and evaluation ... Adjust to achieve your goals.
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In the end, the Strait of Georgia program decided on 14 projects using the expertise
of government, universities, NGOs, industry, and communities. Total cost over 5
years was scaled to $10 Million (set by the original donor).
The real end occurred when the donor was unable to provide the funds. However,
the Directors of the PSF fully endorse this project and continued to support efforts to
raise these funds.
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… builds on past efforts of PSF’s Strait of Georgia proposal
(2009), PSC’s Fraser Sockeye workshop (June 2010), Salish
Sea Ecosystem Conference (2011), development of the Strait
of Georgia Data Centre (PSF/UBC/Sitka Foundation, 2012),
and the Salish Sea Marine Survival Workshop (PSF/LLTK,
Nov. 2012)
A fully integrated, multi-disciplinary program to understand
the determination of early marine survival of salmon in the
Salish Sea ecosystem.
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• Over 90 participants, representing
multiple disciplines (salmon
biology/genetics/ecology, physical
and biological oceanography, prey,
predators, disease, toxins, toxics,
and habitat)
• 15 member Advisory Panel
provided recommendations for
critical elements of US-Canada joint
research program.
• Fundamental question: Is there
sufficient merit in a collaborative
program, is there sufficient overlap
in research priorities and issues?
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• US-Canada research program has
ecological and operational merit.
• Focus on the fish but be multi-faceted
to account for ecosystem interactions.
• Build around an understanding of
bottom-up processes.
• Use retrospective analyses to assess
information gaps & narrow range of
drivers.
• Design larger scale experiments to
isolate factors against environmental
noise.
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We still need your support to proceed:
1) As outlined; requires your support for a direct contribution from
federal budget of $2.5 Million (possibly over 5 years),
leverage will be 4 to 1; OR
2) Increase in the Recreational Fishery stamp value for 2014, currently
every $4 to $5 would provide $1 Million per year for sustaining
recreational fisheries; OR
3) Combine both options for maximum opportunity.
Values to Government:
1) Direct support of sustainable fisheries as outlined in new Fisheries Act.
2) Economic development and increased employment in recreational
fisheries and tourism. (PSF conducting economic assessment currently)
3) Response to Cohen Commission report.
4) Community involvement with government support.
5) Increase in conservation stamp value, provides long term sustainability of
the Strait, fisheries, and communities ... No direct cost to government.
Rowing for large Chinook in the
Tyee Pool, Campbell River, BC
Seal head tag - Side View
ARGOS antenna
Circuit boards
Batteries
Epoxy mold
Loop antenna
EMI shielding
Pacific Ocean Salmon Tracking (POST) arrays and new arrays from Canadian Ocean
Tracking Network
OTN
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