Fraser River Sockeye Fisheries and Fisheries Management - Cohen ...

Recovery ObjectivesIn anticipation of a Schedule 1 listing under SARA, which would have given Cultussockeye federal protection as an endangered species, DFO formed the Cultus sockeyeRecovery Team (CSRT) in 2003. The CSRT published its National Recovery Strategyfor Cultus Lake sockeye salmon the following year (CSRT 2004), identifying one overarchingrecovery goal and four sequential recovery objectives.Recovery Goal: To halt the decline of the Cultus sockeye population and to returnit to the status of a viable, self-sustaining and genetically robust wild populationthat will contribute to its ecosystems and have the potential to support sustainableuse.Objective 1: Ensure the genetic integrity of the population by exceeding a fouryeararithmetic mean of 1,000 successful spawners with no fewer than 500successful adult spawners on any one cycle.Objective 2: Ensure growth of the successful adult spawner population for eachgeneration (that is, across four years relative to the previous four years), and oneach cycle (relative to its brood year) for not less than three out of four consecutiveyears.Objective 3: Recover the population to the level of abundance at which it can bede-listed (i.e., designated Not at Risk) by COSEWIC.Objective 4: Over the long term, recover the population to a level of abundance(beyond that of Objective 3) that will support ecosystem function and sustainableuse.After the GIC denied protection of Cultus sockeye under SARA (Canada Gazette 2005),DFO re-profiled the National Recovery Strategy into the National Conservation Strategy(CSRT 2009), which re-iterated the same recovery goal and recovery objectives astranscribed above but renamed them the conservation goal and conservation objectives,respectively.The CSRT propose five general approaches to achieving the conservation goal andobjectives:121