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Salmon Conservation Initiative Consequence Table

Basic Consequence Table
to Compare Possible Salmon Conservation Initiatives Evaluation Criteria:
1 is worst; 5 is best

 

Below
is a working copy of a Consequence Table filled in by one
person in red. Additional objectives or initiative options could be added.
Evaluation values will change with input from others.

 

Problem /
Issue

Objective

Evaluation Criteria:
1 is worst; 5 is best

Option 1 Electronic monitoring
of smallboat gillnetters		 Option 2 TAC, Logs and landing
stations for recreational		 Option 3 Go to terminal

(upriver) fisheries

Option 4 Reduce sports steelhead
take 20%		 Option 5

Reduce commercial quota 20%

Option 6 close commercial
sockeye during peak Steelhead run		 7 Open during peak steelhead
The
combined directed sports catch and commercial sockeye fisheries bycatch
of Steelhead is too great

Reduce pressure on

Skeena

steelhead

1-3

Gillnetters
have no $ incentive to catch steelhead and already try to avoid
them

4-5

The main
directed fishery needs examination and control

1-3

Many
think weak stocks school in main stem prior to

entering
their home tributary

5

Reduction
of main directed sports fishery would be effective

1-3

Fleet already
has short nets, short set times they try to avoid and release steelhead

1-3

studies
show no relationship between Skeena gillnet openings and steelhead
returns

3
The commercial
fishery on large healthy sockeye runs catches mixed stocks of weaker
runs

Reduce pressure on weak Skeena

sockeye

(ws) runs

1-3

EM can’t
distinguish sockeye

1 1 Main
stocks of concern are in highest % at upriver fishing sites		 3 Allows

comm. fleet

to favour,
avoid, ws

3

Timing already
avoids runs

1

avoiding
steelhead pushes fishery onto weak sockeye runs

5
Wild caught
salmon is important nutritional commodity. Ocean caught salmon have
~500% more Omega-3 than upriver. 		Maximize Omega-3 rich food
supplied to people		 2-3 little
effect,

but removes
voices against

terminal option

5 1 5 1 1 5
~35% of the
commercial fleet are FN, whose boats are relied on in their villages		 Coastal FN community transportation
and food fish capabilities		 1

Annual cost
of EM is thousands $

so it eliminates
small boats

5 1 5 3-5 1 5

FN fishermen
will get more income

Skeena
salmon fishery ec value went down ~$40 million with recent move to upriver
and sports priority (same price same run size)		 Max total economic value in Skeena and north coast
1

lose hundreds
of local jobs,gilnetters

high cost
low benefit

5

Only way to
control which are overfishing threatening stocks

of concern

1 ocean caught
fish are worth about 10 times river marked, oil depleted terminal fish		 5

sports revenue
not sensitive to

small quota

reduction

1 1

Babine
wastes hundreds of thousands sockeye in excess to spawning needs

5

Sports is
only 16mill

Subtotal
Evaluations:


Higher=better options*** 		6-11 20-21
****		 5 23
****		 9-13 5-7 23 ****
 
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