Salmon Steward is the official publication of the Pacific Salmon Foundation in Vancouver BC Canada
Issue link: http://digital.canadawide.com/i/129058
Sockeye Salute BC Every four years in October, the Lower Adams River is flooded with millions of Sockeye returning to their spawning grounds. IMPACT: The Foundation is creating permanent educational displays for the hundreds of thousands of spectators that will attend in 2014. Didson Sonar In 2007, the Foundation partnered with Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Yale First Nations to develop infrastructure for a new technology that could provide precise counts of salmon passing further upstream. IMPACT: This study was essential in testing the accuracy of salmon abundance estimates made at Mission, that are required to manage Fraser River Sockeye salmon fisheries. Catch & Release The Foundation partnered with Fraser Basin Council and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, to study the need to limit use of a controversial catch and release technique for better fisheries management. IMPACT: Findings discovered the survival of fish less than 24 hours after being released wasn't significantly impacted when caught using the technique. Radio Tagging An extension of the Fish Wheel project near Mission, the study used radio-transmitting tags to track individual fish as they migrated through the Fraser Basin. IMPACT: The findings provided valuable management insights into the rate of salmon migration, how they use the basin, how many are lost to fisheries and how many survive to reproduce. p08-09Salmon Journey infographic.indd 9 13-04-23 3:57 PM