Fishery Notice

The following Management Areas will close at 23:59 hours Friday, November 11, 
2016 for commercial salmon fishing for chum by seine and gill net for the 
balance of the 2016 salmon season:

1. Areas 20 and 21 (Nitinat),

2. Area 121.

The total preliminary Nitinat chum return is estimated at just over 1 million 
pieces. The escapement requirements to Nitinat Lake and River are a minimum of 
225,000 and a maximum of 325,000.  To date the escapement to the area is 
approximately 585,000 chum. The total commercial catch to date is 406,000 chum 
of which Area E Gill Nets caught approximately 137,000 pieces and Area B Seines 
caught approximately 269,000 pieces.

The Nitinat Hatchery chum egg target range is from 20 to 30 million eggs. The 
egg take for this year is complete and the total taken was 33 million chum 
eggs.  
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Mike Spence, Resource Manager, Port Alberni (250) 720 4448

Fisheries & Oceans Operations Center - FN1276
Sent November 10, 2016 at 1547

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