MCC Salmon Committee submits comments to IFMP

Comments on the North and South Coast Integrated Fishing Management Plans for Salmon were due on April 20. We (the MCC Salmon committee) submitted comments on the IFMPs.

Our comments cover Chinook, sockeye, coho, pink and chum fisheries management across the province of BC, as well as on catch monitoring and compliance, hatcheries, total mortalities and Fisheries Related Incidental Mortalities, Big Bar and COVID-19 implications.

Our Chinook comments are based on feedback we provided on April 9th. The Salmon Committee of the Pacific Marine Conservation Caucus (MCC) submitted comments April 9 on fisheries affecting threatened and endangered early-timed Fraser stream types. The recommendations herein address other aspects of managing these threatened and endangered Fraser CUs, other at-risk Chinook Conservation Units in BC, the failure to meet the Wild Salmon Policy principles 1, 2, 4 and 6 which aim to protect unique attributes of Chinook diversity, abundance and distribution, and the failure to consider fishery impacts limiting the abundance of Chinook within SRKW critical habitat.

For information on the other aspects of our submission and recommendations, download the full letter.