Monday, August 23, 2010

MOE Tyee Update to Aug.19th

Here is the Tyee Steelhead Update to August 19th. Information provided courtesy of the Ministry of Environment, Smithers.












































Hello all,
Please find, attached, the Skeena Update to August 19th, 2010.
This file contains the Tyee Test Fishery generated Skeena River summer steelhead index to August 15th, including daily, cumulative and escapement estimate figures, in addition to a summary table showing cumulative index data since 2000, overall and decadal averages, et cetera.

The Tyee Test Fishery began on May 25th this year and is scheduled to continue until ~September 24th.
Skeena (Tyee Test Fishery) summer steelhead estimate summary info: The Tyee steelhead index to August 19th is 157 - well above average for this date (average: 77; worst year: 23 ('57); best year: 207 ('98), if direct comparisons between years were valid (please see caveat, below).

Commercial fishery activity is summarized in the attached file Commercial Openings 2010 and below. There have been no further commercial fisheries since July 26th.

Area 4 gillnet fisheries:
A 30 hour gillnet opening on targetting chinook on June 24.
16 hour gillnet openings on targetting sockeye on; July 12 July 26th

And the following Area 3 gillnet fisheries targetting sockeye, all 16 hour openings: June 15 June 21 June 28 June 29 July 5 July 6 July 12 July 13 July 26
No further commercial openings are being considered at this time for either Area 3 or Area 4.
The DFO reports the Skeena sockeye escapement estimate past the Tyee Test Fishery to date is approximately 911,300 while the total predicted sockeye escapement past Tyee for 2010 has been reduced from 1.1 million to 919 500.

The total return to Canada for Nass sockeye to August 3rd is estimated to be 357,000

The upper Sustut River enumeration weir was installed on July 31st and 13 steelhead have been captured to August 15th, slightly below average for this date over the last decade (average: 20; worst year: 1 (2006); best year: 78 (2004). NB: this is a genetically distinct population from the lower Sustut River stock.

Wet'suwet'en Fisheries began annual mark-recapture stock assessment activities at Moricetown Canyon (Bulkley River) for salmon and steelhead on the 14th of July and have now captured and tagged 2294 steelhead to August 17th (723 in the beach seine and 1571 in the dipnet). To date, 206 steelhead have been recaptured (90 in the beach seine and 116 in the dipnet fishery).

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