Fishery Notice
Category(s):
RECREATIONAL - Salmon
Subject:
FN1081-RECREATIONAL - Salmon - Chum - Tidal Fraser River - Area 29 - Management Actions to Year end - Non-retention
This notice provides management actions to December 31, 2019. Fishing is permitted on the tidal Fraser River during daylight* hours only. Further to FN1071, the coast-wide returns of Chum salmon have been very poor and the current in-season estimate for the return to the Fraser River is 564,000 Chum. There is an 80% probability that the run is between 421,000 and 752,000, and a 6% probability that the run will exceed the escapement goal of 800,000. At this run size recreational Chum fisheries will not take place on the Fraser River mainstem. Waters: Tidal waters of the Fraser River (Downstream edge of the CPR Bridge at Mission to the mouth). Management measures: Effective November 2 until December 31, 2019: - The daily limit for Coho salmon is two (2) hatchery marked fish only. You may not retain wild Coho. - The daily limit for Pink salmon is four (4). - You may not retain Chinook, Sockeye or Chum salmon. In the tidal Fraser River, fishing for salmon is only permitted from one hour before sunrise to one after sunset each day. Day light hours only refers to (One hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset). Reference to sunrise and sunset means the times for those events as calculated by the National Research Council of Canada and published daily at http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-45_metric_e.html. Variation Order No. 2019-RFQ-576, 2019-RCT-578 Notes: Barbless hooks are required when fishing for salmon in tidal and non-tidal waters of British Columbia. Anglers are requested to release any hatchery marked Sockeye. These fish are hatchery raised Sockeye and part of a recovery program designed to increase the numbers of Cultus Lake Sockeye. The term "hatchery marked" means a fish that has a healed scar in place of the adipose fin. Sport anglers are encouraged to participate in the Salmon Sport Head Recovery program by labelling and submitting heads from adipose fin-clipped Chinook and Coho salmon. Recovery of coded-wire tags provides critical information for coast-wide stock assessment. Contact the Salmon Sport Head Recovery Program toll free at (866) 483-9994 for further information. Did you witness suspicious fishing activity or a violation? If so, please call the Fisheries and Ocean Canada 24-hour toll free Observe, Record, Report line at (800) 465-4336. For the 24 hour recorded opening and closure line, call toll free at 1-(866)431-FISH (3474). FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact the nearest Fisheries and Oceans Canada office or visit our website at http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca.
Fisheries & Oceans Operations Center - FN1081
Sent October 18, 2019 at 1149
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