Salmon bycatch monitoring and sampling results for the Pacific Region 2023/24 groundfish trawl fishery / Cory R. Lagasse, Kathryn A. Fraser, Emily Braithwaite, Nicholas Komick.: Fs97-4/3298E-PDF

"The Pacific Region Groundfish Trawl Fishery is one of the largest fisheries in British Columbia by catch volume and value. Beginning fall 2022, new monitoring and retention requirements for salmon bycatch were introduced in the fishery to improve the accuracy of catch estimates and collect information on Chinook salmon stock composition and coded wire tags (CWT). This report describes results for the 2023/24 groundfish fishery, the first full year of the enhanced monitoring program. There was an estimated total of 28,145 salmon caught in the 2023/24 groundfish fishery including 21,696 Chinook salmon. CWT and genetic stock composition estimates indicate that most bycatch of Canadian origin Chinook salmon was from the Fraser Fall 4(1) stock management unit, which includes CWT exploitation rate indicator stocks from the Chilliwack and Harrison River. A new salmon bycatch management plan has been implemented for the 2024/25 fishery, including a fleet-wide bycatch cap of 9,500 Chinook salmon, therefore, future catches will be reduced compared to information reported here for 2023/24"--Abstract, page v.

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