Bureaucrats express concern about B.C. salmon stock tracking

[agentaqua]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/can...press-concern-about-bc-salmon-stock-tracking/

 

[SpringVelocity]

A lack of data means a lack of good management

Exactly.

 

[searun]

Absolutely, for example the number of streams being monitored by DFO in BC's North and Central coast reduced from 1,533 streams in the 1980's to 476 streams in 2014. That is a 70% decline.

Those poor people at DFO don't have a chance to do a good job when we pretend to care about fish - successive governments have voted with their budget decisions. Salmon don't apparently matter, nor to species that rely upon them and the economies of small coastal communities.

Sad state of affairs.

 

[wildmanyeah]

You can find all the enumeration data here:

lots of the small streams were last enumerated in the early and late 1990's, Its sad, some streams not walked or counted in 20+ years, easyest way is to download the data in an excell sheet and create a piviot table.

https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/c48669a3-045b-400d-b730-48aafe8c5ee6

Here is a small creek for example on the north side of the Fraser river that was last enumerated in 2015. That is pretty good, I have seen some local creeks last enumerated in 1997. What I found interesting going though some of the data is how bad some stocks were in the 1950-60 and have recovered nicely. Chum on the Fraser for example numbers have general increased over the last 50 years.

 

[OldBlackDog]

Absolutely, for example the number of streams being monitored by DFO in BC's North and Central coast reduced from 1,533 streams in the 1980's to 476 streams in 2014. That is a 70% decline.

Those poor people at DFO don't have a chance to do a good job when we pretend to care about fish - successive governments have voted with their budget decisions. Salmon don't apparently matter, nor to species that rely upon them and the economies of small coastal communities.

Sad state of affairs.

And FYI the SFAB Advised them about this shortfall for years.

 

[cuttlefish]

The problems with stock assessments in Canada go beyond just Pacific salmon.
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_cesd_201610_02_e_41672.html