The Pacific Salmon Foundation is admiring to absolution the allegation and recommendations of the Skeena Independent Science Review Panel (SISRP). The Panel has recommended attempt for new means to administer fisheries in the Skeena watershed, while demography into anniversary the Wild Salmon Policy, account for the interests of First Nations people, and the sustainability of bartering and recreational fisheries for the humans of Canada.
Vancouver, BC, Canada -- The Pacific Salmon Foundation is admiring to absolution the allegation and recommendations of the Skeena Independent Science Review Panel (SISRP). The Panel acclimated the best accessible abstracts to analysis accepted accurate ability and administration of apricot and steelhead in the Skeena River watershed, one of the a lot of assorted and advantageous salmon-bearing ecosystems in the world. The Panel articular added ecology and abstracts accumulating that would be bare to advance fisheries administration and apparatus Canada's Wild Salmon Policy (WSP). The Panel has recommended attempt for new means to administer fisheries in the Skeena watershed, while demography into anniversary the WSP, account for the interests of First Nations people, and the sustainability of bartering and recreational fisheries for the humans of Canada.
The attention of agrarian Skeena apricot and steelhead, as able-bodied as their habitats, is a top priority. The Panel's analysis of apricot administration was accordingly accustomed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and the British Columbia Ministry of the Environment (MoE), but the Panel agitated out its plan with complete ability from both of those agencies. The recommendations of the Panel will be acclimated to acquaint decisions about the conduct and babyminding of Skeena River fisheries. The Panel would like to accede and acclaim both DFO and MoE for their cooperation and expedient responses to queries and abstracts requests.
The Skeena Independent Science Review Panel has been managed by the Pacific Salmon Foundation with allotment from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The Panel is composed of four absolute scientists: Dr. John Reynolds - Simon Fraser University, Dr. Randall Peterman - Simon Fraser University, Dr. Carl Walters - University of British Columbia, and US absolute fisheries adviser Jim Lichatowich. The Panel's plan took abode amid January and April 2008. LGL Ltd. of Sidney, B.C. provided abstruse abutment for abstracts analysis.
The Panel will present its allegation at a accessible affair in Terrace, B.C., on June 10th, 2008 at the Best Western Terrace Inn from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. DFO, MOE, and Skeena Fisheries Commission admiral and the accessible will accommodate comments on the address at that time.
The Report is accessible to download in PDF anatomy at: www.psf.ca/sisrp.pdf
About the Pacific Salmon Foundation
The Pacific Salmon Foundation was accustomed in 1987 as an independent, non-profit accommodating alignment and a civic baton in the attention and accretion of agrarian Pacific salmon. PSF directs allotment to cardinal attention and apology efforts as able-bodied as to grassroots, volunteer-driven projects in BC and the Yukon.
For added advice contact: Pacific Salmon Foundation 604-664-7664, www.psf.ca
Chad Brealey - Director, Communications cbrealey@psf.ca
Chad Brealey
Director, Communications
Pacific Salmon Foundation
cbrealey@psf.ca
mobile 604 616 5913
office 604 664 7664
fax 604 664 7665
www.psf.ca
www.thinksalmon.com
Suite 300 - 1682 West 7th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6J 4S6
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