https://www.salmonforever.ca/home daily 1.0 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/e25ce6d0-bcc1-41bf-8c21-d2ae2cfff970/Seal+Card.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/2781e18e-a304-4d2c-bb11-fc5587b4b299/Fishing-BC-21_edit.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/dd458e7c-4dd4-4190-ade6-fee97c738a2d/Langara_17LFL_KylerVos-218.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/aff48939-8bd5-441e-aede-15e3e500593a/Victoria-Fishing-54.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/c65021ed-bca1-431a-a70f-e6490cc62280/OTB-Charters-23.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/0c7a034a-6013-462e-85ec-d04e7dc7c56e/SalmonForever_Microsite_Highlights-01.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/e184e505-32ed-4884-ac3d-502a660a9fd9/SalmonForever_Microsite_Highlights-02.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/34df97bd-a670-4f78-ba2e-f55631149b80/SalmonForever_Microsite_Highlights-03.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/5d6a9c38-6c95-49d6-ac84-5b27ed407463/Victoria-Fishing-163.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/f78de824-25ef-4d99-8699-77e51cb9ff13/hooke_1608_prince_rupert_048_CMYK_v2.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/f08892ba-992c-44d9-ad8c-dc3305db1268/Victoria-Fishing-114.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/7dc1a6b6-a798-41e6-91fd-e6e7307799eb/Victoria-Fishing-120.jpg https://www.salmonforever.ca/mark-selective-salmon-fisheries daily 0.75 2022-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/e8b4bf57-d793-4d71-b6f1-42d60d7df565/Image4.jpeg Mark Selective Salmon Fisheries - Mark Selective Fishing Strategy Mark Selective Fisheries allow hatchery salmon—“marked” by having their adipose fins removed—to be retained by anglers, while unmarked salmon must be released. This approach, if implemented when necessary to protect stocks of concern, will provide the BC salmon fishery, particularly in the southern coast, a degree of access—to chinook retention that will enable the fishery to survive while at the same time offering almost complete protection to endangered and threatened unmarked stocks. Wild salmon have the adipose fin intact and in BC, many hatchery fish do too. Any salmon without an adipose fin was hatchery produced. A hatchery retention fishery is possible when the prevalence of hatchery produced marked fish is high and unmarked stocks of concern are low. Release of unmarked salmon guarantees that wild salmon are protected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/48f29f96-de50-47bd-bb66-c1a8e59b6ae0/Fishing+BC-49.jpg Mark Selective Salmon Fisheries - A HATCHERY RETENTION FISHERY (A MSF STRATEGY) IS JUST ONE TOOL IN THE BOX The retention of marked hatchery produced Chinook is just one of many successful and proven selective fishing strategies that can be implemented to protect stocks of concern and maintain access to the public fishery. Additional tried and tested strategies include length, area and timing restrictions, bag and possession limit variations, and gear restrictions. The SFI believes that all effective strategies should be considered as part of an adaptive, flexible management regime. The SFI supports implementing a mix of management measures and strategies that afford stocks of concern the most protection possible and provides the highest potential for Chinook retention. The measures required will be specific to the stock composition and specifically the timing and prevalence of stocks of concern for each fishing area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/05d1439e-176d-429f-b906-f631e6b65eba/Net+Card_1.jpg Mark Selective Salmon Fisheries - ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT IS THE FUTURE By utilizing all the tools available to fishery managers, achieving a balance between conservation objectives and social, cultural, and economic objectives in the management of the BC Chinook fishery is possible. Important activities are being planned and implemented through the Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative (PSSI). This work must address habitat concerns, the potential to implement mass marking of all fishery related hatchery production, and implementation of unmarked conservation hatchery production for specific stocks and in strategic areas. The use of these habitat and enhancement related strategies will increase the potential for a complete recovery of wild salmon populations in BC over time, while also allowing for the economic and social recovery of communities that depend on fishery related activity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/834be1bf-ce37-4235-92d4-a34879e7acac/Home+First+Section.jpg Mark Selective Salmon Fisheries - Chinook salmon issues, news and information An archive of relevant and important documents. https://www.salmonforever.ca/pinnipeds daily 0.75 2023-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/3a7f6bca-c816-4a4e-91d0-2a3d67fc9153/Image2.png Pinnipeds - SEALS AND SEA LIONS ARE HAVING A PROFOUND EFFECT ON MANY OF BC’S COASTAL SALMON POPULATIONS Over the past 50 years some key BC Chinook stocks have been in decline. Based on a large body of research, A significant source of this decline is understood to be the unchecked growth of seal and sea lion populations (known collectively as pinnipeds) particularly in the Salish Sea. Whereas traditional Fist Nations and non-indigenous harvest once kept the pinniped population in balance, a ban on hunting pinnipeds enacted in the 1970’s has allowed their populations to increase ten-fold. The combination of the population growth and increased movement into rivers and estuaries has resulted in a massive increase in the numbers of salmon consumed by pinnipeds along the Pacific Coast. These include salmon at all life stages ranging from smolts to spawning adults. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/1af31e29-b1c5-40b8-9051-4c8e70f0c6b5/Image3.png Pinnipeds - THE INCREASE IN PINNIPEDS IS UNSUSTAINABLE The actions of humans have resulted in an increase of pinnipeds that is unsustainable and threatens wild salmon recovery and salmon fisheries. Due to a ban on the traditional hunting of seals and sea lions in our waters, their populations have proliferated since the 1970’s. Today it is estimated that there are more than 70,000 pinnipeds in Georgia Strait alone, a ten-fold increase. Due to their artificially inflated numbers, a direct result of their protected status, seals and sea lions have increasingly inhabited estuaries and rivers and moved further upstream to lakes and tributaries, where they consume vast numbers of young salmon smolts as they move from the freshwater to the ocean and returning adults as they migrate upriver to spawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/e25ce6d0-bcc1-41bf-8c21-d2ae2cfff970/Seal+Card.jpg Pinnipeds - PREDATORS TODAY CONSUME SIX TIMES MORE CHINOOK THAN BEFORE. Marine biologists have identified seals and sea lions as the #1 predators of Chinook and Coho Salmon in BC waters, consuming more Chinook than Killer Whales and commercial and recreational fisheries combined. In 1975, predators including seals and sea lions consumed 5 million Chinook. Today, they eat more than 31 million Chinook every year. In the same timeframe, human harvesting of Chinook has decreased, from 3.6 million to 2.1 million. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/619bf7c1ac6f813814418a02/adcbb23d-b9db-489d-b047-0c9bd44997ea/unsplash-image-dKe9GgzS8Ek.jpg Pinnipeds - SOUTHERn RESIDENt KILLER WHALES AND PINNIPEDS ARCHIVE An archive of relevant and important documents about Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) and Pinnipeds.