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Just 485,900 sockeye returned to the region’s most prolific source of sockeye last year, the lowest since record-keeping began in 1893, and almost half the 941,000 that were forecast to return in both 2015 and 2016, according to the newspaper.
DFO said, in a notice issued Tuesday, that its forecasts this year for the Fraser Rive are “highly uncertain”.
Those following the salmon’s conditions have blamed the variability in annual survival rates for returning fish and uncertainty over how the salmon have coped with changing ocean conditions, as the fish spend the majority of their lives in the Pacific before returning to spawn in their home rivers and streams.
Another big challenge for the sockeye as well as chinook, coho and steelhead are that they are forced to navigate the site of the November 2018 Big Bar landslide on the Fraser River, upstream of Lillooet. Even in spite of infrastructure changes, the area will “continue to be an impediment,” DFO said in its notice.
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Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) said Tuesday that it doesn’t expect to allow either commercial or recreational fishing for sockeye salmon from the province of British Columbia’s Fraser River due to concerns about stock numbers, the Times Colonist reports […]
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