Chinook Salmon. (i) This agreement shall apply to large (greater than 659 mm mid-eye to fork length) Chinook salmon originating in the Taku River.
(ii) Both Parties shall take the appropriate management action to ensure that the necessary escapement goals for Chinook salmon bound for the Canadian portions of the Taku River are achieved. The Parties agree to share in the burden of conservation. Fishing arrangements must take biodiversity and eco-system requirements into account.
(iii) Consistent with paragraph 2 above, management of directed fisheries will be abundance-based through an approach developed by the Committee. The Parties agree to implement assessment programs in support of the abundance-based management regime.
(iv) Unless otherwise agreed, directed fisheries on Taku River Chinook salmon will occur only in the Taku River drainage in Canada, and in District 111 in the U.S.
(v) Management of Taku River Chinook salmon will take into account the conservation of specific stocks or conservation units when planning and prosecuting their respective fisheries. To avoid over-harvesting of specific components of the run, weekly guideline harvests, or other agreed management measures, will be developed by the Committee by apportioning the allowable harvest of each Party over the total Chinook season based on historical weekly run timing.
(vi) Commencing 2009, the Parties agree to implement through the Committee an agreed Chinook genetic stock identification (GSI) program to assist the management of Taku Chinook salmon. The Parties agree to continue the development of joint (GSI) baselines.
(vii) The Parties agree to periodically review the above- border Taku River Chinook spawning escapement goal which will be expressed in terms of large Chinook fish (greater than 659 mm mid-eye to fork length). By January 15, 2009, the Parties agree to jointly review the currently agreed escapement goal and pass a jointly prepared technical report through accelerated domestic review processes in time for a revised goal to be applied in the 2009 season. Formal review processes will proceed as required.
(viii) A preseason forecast of the Taku River Chinook salmon terminal run6 size will be made by the Committee by December 1 of each year.
(ix) Directed fisheries may be implemented based on preseason forecasts only if the preseason forecast terminal run size equals or exceeds the midpoint of the MSY escapement goal range plus the combined Canada, U.S. and test fishery base level catches (BL...
Chinook Salmon. The provisions of this Chapter shall apply for the period 2009 through 2018.
Chinook Salmon. This Chapter shall apply to the period from 2019 through 2028 (the “Chapter Period”).
1. The Parties agree that:
(a) Chinook stocks that are subject to this Treaty have varying levels of status with many being healthy and meeting goals for long-term production while others are identified as conservation concerns, including some in the U.S. Pacific Northwest that are listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) and some in Canada that are assessed to be at increasing risk of extinction;
(b) fishery management measures that are implemented under this Treaty are intended to be appropriate for recovering, sustaining, and protecting Chinook salmon stocks in Canada and the U.S. and are responsive to changes in productivity of Chinook salmon stocks associated with environmental conditions;
(c) while fishing has contributed to the decline of some Chinook stocks, the continued status of Chinook stocks that are considered depressed generally reflects the long-term cumulative effects of other factors, particularly chronic habitat degradation, in some instances deleterious hatchery practices, cyclic natural phenomena, and large scale environmental variability affecting both marine and freshwater habitats;
(d) successful Chinook conservation, restoration, and harvest management depends on a sustained and bilaterally coordinated program of resource protection, restoration, enhancement, and utilization based on:
(i) science-based fishery management regimes that xxxxxx healthy and abundant Chinook stocks by contributing to the restoration and rebuilding of depressed natural stocks while providing opportunities to harvest sustainably abundant natural stocks as well as abundant hatchery produced fish,
(ii) the implementation of protective and remedial actions identified in local and regional recovery planning processes that address non-fishing factors that limit the abundance, productivity, genetic diversity, or spatial structure of natural Chinook salmon stocks,
(iii) scientifically sound enhancement activities that provide mitigation to fisheries for habitat loss or degradation, or improve productivity through the appropriate use of artificial propagation and supplementation techniques, and
(iv) the continued modification of fisheries to maintain or increase the overall harvest rates exerted on hatchery-origin Chinook, where desirable, while simultaneously decreasing or maintaining limits on the overall mortality rates on natural-origin Chinook;
(e) a healthy and pr...
Chinook Salmon. Adult Chinook salmon were observed in Reach 4 of Big Indian Slough (Figure 6) on one occasion (Table 4, Figure 5). All of the observed adult Chinook salmon were marked with an adipose fin clip and coded wire tag indicating that the observed Chinook salmon originated from a fish hatchery. The coded wire tags were recovered from the observed Chinook salmon and verified that the observed Chinook salmon were of hatchery origin (personal communication with Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, 2007). Given that a small percentage of returning adult salmon are prone to stray, it is reasonable to assume that the adult Chinook salmon observed in the Big Indian Slough were from WDFW’s Skagit River hatchery, Samish River hatchery and/or WDFW’s Xxxxxxx Bay net pens. It is also reasonable to assume that Big Indian Slough does not currently support a reproducing population of Chinook salmon for the following reasons:
Chinook Salmon. 1. NMFS is continuing work on its status review for West Coast chinook salmon.
2. In early 1997, NMFS provided copies of a draft status review for West Coast chinook to peer reviewers and its co-managers in California (i.e., California Department of Fish and Game, Indian tribes, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) for review and comment. NMFS is reviewing these comments and gathering updated information for the status review. Secretaries and Chairs of Commissions, or Boards. The WRPC also establishes a Working Group whose members are Directors of State Agencies and Executive Officer’s of Regional Water Quality Control Boards. An Executive Director of the WRPC will also be appointed and will be responsible for the coordination of the WRPC and Working Group. NMFS in cooperation with the California Resources Agency is exploring entering into a MOU that will develop a process and mechanism, through the WRPC, that results in a State plan for the protection of the State’s salmonid population. Completion and implementation of this State plan through the WRPC, in consultation with NMFS, will be the basis by which NMFS initiates a rulemaking action (pursuant to its authority under section 4(d) of the ESA) to adopt the State of California’s plan or plans as equivalent to habitat conservation plans provided that NMFS determines that the plans are consistent with the requirements of the Federal ESA for issuing incidental take permits to non-Federal parties (section 10 of the ESA). The meeting will focus on the latest draft MOU provided to NMFS by the State of California. Participants are reminded that this is only a draft and that NMFS intends that the final MOU will take advantage of the information and recommendations from all interested parties. Therefore, comments and suggestions are hereby solicited from the public, other concerned governmental agencies, the scientific community, industry, and any other person concerned with these draft guidelines. Dated: October 22, 1997. [FR Doc. 97–28441 Filed 10-27-97; 8:45 am] interim rule that applied the section 9 take prohibitions, with certain
3. NMFS expects to publish in the exceptions, to the SONC coho ESU was published by NMFS on July 18, 1997 (62 FR 38479), and became effective on August 18, 1997. The 60-day comment period on the interim final rule ended on September 16, 1997. NMFS will review all comments and publish a final rule in the Federal Register in the next 90 days.
4. NMFS is developing a proposed rule to ...
Chinook Salmon. (i) This agreement shall apply to large (greater than 659 mm mid-eye to fork length) Chinook salmon originating in the Stikine River.
(ii) Both Parties shall take the appropriate management action to ensure that the necessary escapement goals for Chinook salmon bound for the Canadian portions of the Stikine River are achieved. The Parties agree to share in the burden of conservation. Fishing arrangements must take biodiversity and eco-system requirements into account.
(iii) Consistent with paragraph 2 above, management of directed fisheries will be abundance-based through an approach developed by the Committee. The Parties agree to implement assessment programs in support of the abundance-based management regime.
(iv) Unless otherwise agreed, directed fisheries on Stikine River Chinook salmon will occur only in the Stikine River drainage in Canada, and in District 108 in the U.S.
(v) Pursuant to this agreement, a directed U.S. subsistence fishery in U.S. portions of the Stikine River will be permitted, with a guideline harvest level of 125 Chinook salmon to be taken between May 15 and June
Chinook Salmon. (i) This agreement shall apply to large (greater than 659 mm mid- eye to fork length) Chinook salmon originating in the Taku River.
(ii) Both Parties shall take the appropriate management action to ensure that the necessary escapement goals for Chinook salmon bound for the Canadian portions of the Taku River are achieved. The Parties agree to share in the burden of conservation. Fishing arrangements must take biodiversity and eco-system requirements into account.
(iii) Consistent with paragraph 2 above, management of directed fisheries will be abundance-based through an approach developed by the Committee. The Parties agree to implement assessment programs in support of the abundance-based management regime.
(iv) Unless otherwise agreed, directed fisheries on Taku River Chinook salmon will occur only in the Taku River drainage in Canada, and in District 111 in the U.S.
(v) Management of Taku River Chinook salmon will take into account the conservation of specific stocks or conservation units when planning and prosecuting their respective fisheries. To avoid over-harvesting of specific components of the run, weekly guideline harvests, or other agreed management measures, will be developed by the Committee by apportioning the allowable harvest of each Party over the total Chinook season based on historical weekly run timing.
(vi) Commencing 2009, the Parties agree to implement through the Committee an agreed Chinook genetic stock identification (GSI) program to assist the management of Xxxx Xxxxxxx
