Sustainable Fishing

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Promoting Harvest Reform

Salmon have long been threatened by unsustainable harvesting practices. Watershed Watch developed extensive expertise in harvest reform and selective harvest techniques through years of intense and detailed association with First Nations and the federal government. Watershed Watch currently promotes sustainable salmon harvesting practices as a conservation sector representative on the federal government's "South Coast Integrated Harvest Planning Committee." The committee investigated the 2004 disappearance of 1.3 million Fraser River sockeye, and helped draft formal recommendations to improve Fraser sockeye management and to prevent further 'missing sockeye' events that, sadly, have become far too common.

Watershed Watch is also the Chair and Secretariat of the Marine Conservation Caucus-the official consultation body for the conservation sector with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. For more information on the MCC see www.mccpacific.org.

Watershed Watch's report Transferable Shares in British Columbia's Commercial Salmon Fishery encourages debate in industry, in fisheries management circles, and most importantly, among members of the concerned public, in the hopes of encouraging the West Coast salmon fishery to make the transition to transferable shares management.

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