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

3.3 The Contractor will review and summarize fisheries policy documents and themandate and structure of different fisheries organizations in B.C. and Alaska.Fisheries Management3.4 The Contractor will identify the critical information requirements for sockeyefisheries management in the Fraser River and in Bristol Bay.3.5 The Contractor will describe and evaluate the accuracy and precision of preseasonforecasting methods in B.C. and Alaska. This work will include adescription of the application of pre-season forecasting in harvest management.3.6 The Contractor will describe and evaluate the accuracy and precision of in-seasonrun-size abundance estimation methods in BC and Alaska. This work will includea description of the application of in-season run-size abundance estimation inharvest management.3.7 For both B.C. and Alaska, the Contractor will analyze historical performance ofthe in-season assessment process, to include changes in estimates of run sizes withparticular emphasis on how long it has taken within each season to correctlyassess the final run size. The key issue to be described is how quickly the inseasonassessment process can respond to errors in pre-season forecasts so as tomeet escapement goals.3.8 The Contractor will describe and evaluate the accuracy, precision and reliabilityof in-season and post-season escapement enumeration methods used in B.C. andAlaska.SW4Deliverables4.1 The main deliverables of the contract are 2 word files addressing “Comparison ofCommercial Sockeye Fisheries Management in the Fraser River, B.C. and BristolBay, Alaska”: (1) a contribution to the LGL fisheries progress report, and (2) acontribution to the LGL final report. The style for these Reports will be a hybridbetween a scientific style and a policy document. An example of a documentwhich follows this format is the B.C. Pacific Salmon Forum Final Report(www.pacificsalmonforum.ca).A-7