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Recreating Sustainable Fisheries in the Skeena Watershed

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Harvest rates<br />

Harvest rates<br />

Managers have attempted to move mixed stock harvest impacts <strong>in</strong> a<br />

failed effort to ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong> commercial efforts and protect biodiversity<br />

0.0800<br />

0.0700<br />

0.0600<br />

0.0500<br />

0.0400<br />

0.0300<br />

1980 – 1991 Weekly Harvest Rates<br />

Plotted aga<strong>in</strong>st <strong>the</strong> run tim<strong>in</strong>g of<br />

selected stocks of concern<br />

Weekly Harvest Rates for 1980 - 1991 Plotted Aga<strong>in</strong>st <strong>the</strong><br />

Estimated Run Tim<strong>in</strong>g of Morice Sockeye, Kitwanga Sockeye,<br />

Early Timed Steelhead and Coho<br />

1980 - 1991 Harvest Rates<br />

Early Steelhead<br />

Coho<br />

kitwanga Sockeye<br />

Morice/Nanika Sockeye<br />

Reduc<strong>in</strong>g harvest rates <strong>in</strong> August from<br />

1992 – 2002 to protect coho and<br />

steelhead led to a decision to <strong>in</strong>crease<br />

weekly harvest rates <strong>in</strong> July <strong>in</strong> an<br />

attempt to ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong> mixed stock<br />

harvests<br />

0.0800<br />

0.0700<br />

0.0600<br />

0.0500<br />

0.0400<br />

0.0300<br />

Weekly Harvest Rates for <strong>the</strong> 1992 - 2002 Plotted Aga<strong>in</strong>st <strong>the</strong><br />

Estimated Run Tim<strong>in</strong>g of Morice Sockeye, Kitwanga Sockeye,<br />

Early Timed Steelhead and Coho<br />

Early Steelhead<br />

Coho<br />

kitwanga Sockeye<br />

Average Weekly Harvest<br />

Rates 1992 - 2002<br />

Morice/Nanika<br />

0.0200<br />

0.0200<br />

0.0100<br />

0.0100<br />

0.0000<br />

0.0000

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