Late summer sockeye returns may be too low for commercial openings
Of the 785,779 Fraser River sockeye harvested to date, American commercial fishermen harvested 310,480, of which American treaty tribes accounted for 236,126, according to the Pacific Salmon Commission .
Despite some promising returns of sockeye salmon to the Skeena River and Barkley Sound this year, Canadian commercial fishermen now face the prospect of being shut out of the once-lucrative Fraser River sockeye harvest for a fourth year in a row. Now, they need to wait until Friday for a meeting of the Fraser River Panel to learn if there will be any openings this year for Fraser River sockeye. If there is, it will likely be very limited.
But the current run sized adopted by the PSC is now just 5.5 million – better than the previous three years, and sufficient to satisfy First Nation FSC requirements, but poor for a dominant year. That caution may have cost south coast salmon fishermen their only chance to catch sockeye this year. A fourth consecutive year of no commercial opportunities for Fraser River sockeye will be devastating to the south coast salmon fleet, Webb said.In recent years, because of declining Fraser River sockeye, 80% of the income for the south coast salmon fleet came from chum salmon, Webb said, and then that got cut. Closures on chum were implemented to protect steelhead.
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