Estimating Exposure of Interior Fraser River Steelhead to Strait of Georgia and Fraser River Commercial Fisheries from 2004–2016

Abstract Excerpt:
An objective of the Southern British Columbia Salmon Integrated Fisheries Management Plan (IFMP) is to minimize the impact of Canadian fisheries on Interior Fraser River (IFR) Steelhead to increase their spawner abundance. For Fraser river commercial gillnet fisheries, the current strategy is to protect 80% of the IFR Steelhead run with a high degree of certainty (DFO 2017a). The IFR Steelhead run is composed of three populations: Thompson, Chilcotin, and West Fraser.