Fraser River sockeye salmon: data synthesis and cumulative impacts

Section 4.0: Results, Synthesis and DiscussionThis section provides the results of our qualitative cumulative impact analysis, integratingevidence across other Cohen Commission technical reports by life history stage, as well as someof the important results from our quantitative cumulative impacts analyses. This section coversthe breadth of the evidence presented within the suite of Cohen Commission technical reports,but refers to those reports, and the appendices of this report, for greater details on the depth ofevidence available.Section 5.0: ConclusionThis section summarizes Section 4.0 along two themes. First, given existing knowledge, whatoverall conclusions can be drawn about the importance of different potential contributors to thedecline of Fraser River sockeye salmon? Second, what future research and monitoring activitiesmight best reduce critical uncertainties in our existing knowledge?Appendices:Appendix 1: Statement of Work provides the original Statement of Work from the Commissionfor this technical report.Appendix 2: Reviewer Evaluations and Responses provides the reviewers’ evaluations of ourdraft report, and our responses to their comments, including revisions that we incorporated intothis final report.Appendix 3: Data and Methods describes the data we received, how we organized it, and ourapproach to qualitative and quantitative analyses. We also suggest possible future quantitativeapproaches that could not be implemented in our project due to time limitations.Appendix 4: Quantitative Results presents the results of our quantitative analyses.Appendix 5: Data Template User Guidelines provides the guidelines that accompanied the datatemplate we developed to guide Commission contractors supplying us with data.Appendix 6: Workshop Report contains the agenda, summary report and detailed minutes fromthe two day, Cohen Commission Scientific and Technical Workshop, November 30 – December1, 2010.3