Stage 4: Client and peer review
Revised timeline - 1 March 2012
Revised assessment timeline - 23 September 2011
Stakeholder Notification: Peer reviewers proposed - 29th July 2009
Stakeholder Announcement: Client information submission - 10th June 2009
Management summary for the British Columbia pink and chum salmon fisheries - 10th June 2009
Certification unit profile for the West Coast Vancouver Island chum salmon - 10th June 2009
Certification unit profile for the Fraser River chum salmon - 10th June 2009
Certification unit profile for the Fraser River pink salmon - 10th June 2009
Certification unit profile for the inner south coast chum salmon (excluding Fraser River) - 10th June 2009
Certification unit profile for the inner south coast pink salmon (excluding Fraser River) - 10th June 2009
Certification unit profile for the north coast and central coast chum salmon - 10th June 2009
Certification unit profile for the north coast and central coast pink salmon - 10th June 2009
Stage 3: Information gathering, stakeholder meetings and scoring
Stakeholder Notification: Site visits scheduled - 10th December 2008
Stage 2: Building the assessment tree
Final Performance Indicators and Scoring Guideposts - 3rd December 2008
Draft assessment tree - 23 May 2008
Stakeholder Notification: Draft assessment tree released for comment - 23 May 2008
Stage 1: Fishery announcement and assessment team formation
Stakeholder Notification: Assessment team announced - 7 January 2008
Stakeholder Notification: Fishery enters full assessment - 7 January 2008
Assessment timeline - 7 January 2008
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British Columbia chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - 4 fisheries
Please note the British Columbia pink salmon components have been certified.
The Conformity Assessment Body, Intertek Moody Marine, has announced that the Public Comment Draft Report for the British Columbia chum salmon fishery is now available for comment for a period of 30 days. Any stakeholder wishing to comment on the report is invited to contact Steven Devitt no later than 5pm GMT, 17 May 2012.
Stakeholders are advised that they are to provide objective evidence in support of any additional claims or any claimed errors of fact in their response to the Public Comment Draft Report. Any comments made by stakeholders shall be documented and forwarded by the certification body to its certification decision-making entity.
Please refer to the assessment downloads section for further information.
Canadian Pacific EEZ and British Columbia Coastal Waters
Chum Salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
North Coast/ Central Coast British Columbia
Inside Fisheries
West Coast Vancouver Island
Fraser River
Seine, troll, gillnet
The salmon fisheries are managed by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) – Pacific Region. The Fisheries and Oceans mandate includes responsibility for the conservation and sustainable use of Canada's fisheries resources.
Salmon fisheries management for all salmon fisheries (First Nation, Commercial and Recreational) in British Columbia is conducted within the framework of an interannual management cycle.
There are detailed fishery management plans for all salmon fisheries in BC including First Nations, commercial and recreational. These plans describe the policy framework of the fisheries, the objectives of the management plan, decision guidelines and specific management measures as well as the fishing plans for the First nations, commercial and recreational fisheries.
Licence conditinos and commercial fishing plans lay out all the fishery management measures including seasons, closed areas, allowable gear characteristics such as hook styles, mesh size, net dimensions and the methods by which gear may be used.
In 2007, for all fishing areas province wide, the three commercial gear types harvested 11,131 tonnes of pink and 4,100 tonnes of chum salmon.
Worldwide
The assessment process is scheduled for completion in or around April 2012. Please see the download section for a detailed assessment timeline.
The MSC ecolabel can only be applied to product from certified fisheries. The MSC program does allow, in certain circumstances and within strict traceability requirements, the MSC ecolabel to be applied following certification to product caught before the actual date of certification. The target eligibility date therefore represents the date from which products may become eligible to carry the MSC ecolabel, however they cannot be sold until and if the fishery is certified. The actual eligibility date will be determined if the fishery is certified to the MSC standard.
To find out more about when fish from this fishery may be sold with the MSC ecolabel, please follow this link (http://www.msc.org/get-certified/supply-chain/eligibility-dates).
]]>Canadian Pacific Sustainable Fisheries Society
C/o BC Seafood Alliance
1100-1200 West 73 Ave
Vancouver, BC
V6P 6G5
Contact: Christina Burridge
Email: cburridge@telus.net
Phone: +1 604 377 9213
Intertek Moody Marine
815-99 Wyse Road
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
B3A 4S5
Canada
Steve Devitt
s.devitt@moodyint.com
Phone: +1 902 422-4511
Fax: +1 902 422 9780