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Report: The Skeena River Steelhead Observer Program July 18 to August 18 1992

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The objective of this observer program was to examine the proportion of gillnetted stealhead which were alive when landed and to judge subjectively the health of those fish.
Author:  Beere, M.C.
Old Reference Number:  sk80
Date Published:  Nov 1992
Report ID:  2570
Audience:  Government and Public
In 1991 the DFO acknowledged the problem of steelhead interception in commercial fisheries in the approaches to the Skeena River and committed to a 50 percent reduction in steelhead harvest and harvest rate over a three year peroid commencing 1992. Concern was expressed by sportfish spokespersons that survival of steelhead subjected to such treatment was questionable and reults reported by commercial fisherment would require corroboration by independent sources. An observer program was developed to address these criticisms and examine the efficacy of gillnet release as an ongoing managment strategy. The primary objective of this observer program was to examine the proportion of gillnetted stealhead which were alive when landed and to judge subjectively the health of those fish. While it was recognized that verification of steelhead catch reporting was also a desirable objective it was understood that this could not be accomplished given the scope and design of the observer program. The program did however provide opportunity to make anecdotal observations on the catch reporting issue.
Report Type
  Fish and Aquatic Habitat Information
 
Subject
  Fish Species - Steelhead - Oncorhynchus mykiss
  Region - Skeena
  Fish and Fish Habitat - Management
  Watershed Groups - 400 - Skeena River
 


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