Fraser River sockeye salmon: data synthesis and cumulative impacts

juvenile Harrison River sockeye.Response: Done.32. Need to do the usual cross-checking of all references.Response: We have cross-checked all references between the body of the report and thereferences section.33. This report frequently uses contractions (e.g., "doesn’t", "won't", etc.). These do notbelong in scientific writing; spell out the full words.Response: We have replaced all contractions (i.e. aren’t, can’t, couldn’t, doesn’t, don’t,hasn’t, wasn’t, we’d, it’s, that’s, there’s, what’s, they’re).Specific comments on Appendix 334. Page 103 - Table A3.3-1 is missing some entries in the "units" column. Also, thereappear to be very few cases in which the qualitative time series of data were provided.Is that correct? If so, say so in section A.3.2.2. For instance, "... only X% of the datathat we analyzed were from these qualitative time series".Response: The missing entries have been entered in this table. A sentence has been addedto describe that qualitative time series were only received from two projects. We think thatSection A3.3 (“… Data Received”) is the more appropriate location for this sentence, whichfollows directly after the section described by the reviewer.35. The material in section A3.5.1 (Qualitative Analyses) under the heading "Weight ofevidence..." repeats what was already said earlier in section 3.3.5 of the main report. Noneed for both.Response: We have added a footnote to explain that this section is an expanded version ofSection 3.3.5 of the main report. The version in the appendix contains substantially moredetail on this approach and how it has been adapted from the foundational literature. Wefelt that this greater depth was relevant given the multiple audiences for this report. Wenow explicitly note that Section 3.3.5 is therefore repeated in this section.36. Page 137 - Delete "or not" from the last line of this page.Response: Done.37. Page 138 - You state that rather than using residuals from the underlying best-fitspawner-recruit relationship that "We used ln(R/S) for this analysis." Not only shouldyou justify why you did that, but you should also state the potential biases that youintroduce by doing so. That is, when your results are presented, you should interpret130