British Columbia chum salmon
Last updated: 17 April 2012
Number of fisheries: 7
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Fishery species:
British Columbia chum (Oncorhynchus keta) - 4 fisheries
MSC assessment status
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.
Fishery location
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
Fishing method
Seine, troll, gillnet
Fishery management
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.
Commercial market
Worldwide
Assessment process
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).
