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Steelhead Stock Status Review - British Columbia
Mark Beere - Senior Fisheries Biologist – Skeena RegionBC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations
Asilomar - March 8, 2016
Status Update - Talking Points
• Any significant changes in wild pop’ns?Some: reduced abundance noted, particularly in the south• Status, approaches to wild harvest?No wild harvest since 80’s/90’s• Reporting catch and harvest?Steelhead angler questionnaire, guide reports, creels• Actions taken to address drought? Steelhead impacts?New legislation, angling closures, monitoring; ↓productivity• Anomalies?Capacity, fewer hatchery fish• New management issues, monitoring?FN’s legal precedents, hatcheries, C&R, major projects
Any Significant Changes in Wild Populations?
BC Steelhead Stock StatusRegional Trends
Vancouver Island
Skeena
Vancouver
Nass
Stikine
Taku
Chilcotin
HaidaGwaii Dean
Thompson
Chilliwack, L. Fraser
Smithers
Williams Lake
Nanaimo
Kamloops
Surrey
North Coas
West Vancouver Island
( Beere 2014)
Routine management zoneConservation concernExtreme conservation concern
ConservationStatus
West Vancouver Island
Taku
Taku
Taku
West Vancouver Island
Taku
West Vancouver Island
Taku
West Vancouver Island
Taku
Taku
Taku
Taku
Taku
West Vancouver Island
( Beere 2016)
Routine management zoneConservation concernExtreme conservation concern
ConservationStatus
Taku
West Vancouver Island
Taku
Taku
West Vancouver Island
TakuTaku
Taku
Taku
Lower Fraser River
Bella Coola Dean
West Vancouver Island
West Vancouver Island
West Vancouver Island
Lower Fraser River
Keogh River Adult Abundance (Coastal Winter Stock)
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Num
ber o
f Spa
wne
rs
Year
Marine Survival Estimates for Steelhead Smolts by Year of Ocean Entry, Keogh River, BC 1977- 2012
NB: Data for 2012 requires data from additional returns in 2016 for the complete estimate.
0.00
4.00
8.00
12.00
16.00
20.00
24.00
surv
ival
(%)
Smolt year
Thompson/Interior Fraser
Interior SummerStocks
Central Coast
Dean River (Coastal Summer Stock)
North CoastSkeena (Interior Summer Stocks)
Reporting Catch and Harvest
Steelhead Angler Questionnaire
Results of Steelhead Harvest Analysis (SHA) Effort by Region and Provincially
Results of Steelhead Harvest Analysis (SHA) Catch by Region and Provincially
Actions Taken to Address Drought
New Water Sustainability Act:• “Consider” environmental flow needs in new water allocation
decisions• Groundwater licencing• regulate during scarcity
• “First-in time, first in right” FITFIR concerns – potentially old, inflated licences stand; short-term permits to provide water for fracking that can be repeated
Anomalies:
Capacity, Hatchery Program
SEP
BC Hatchery Steelhead Releases
( Beere 2016)
Hatchery Releases
New Management Issues, Monitoring
Aboriginal Rights and Title
Monitor Post Capture Physiological Stress Response in Native Steelhead
Pacific LNG/PetronasLelu Island - Skeena River Estuary
Skeena River Headwaters
Atrum Coal – Skeena Headwaters
By-Catch in Commercial Tidal Salmon Fisheries
Acknowledgements:
Mike McCullochKenji MiyazakiLee Williston
Rob BisonJoe De Gisi
Ron PtolemyRenato Vitalini
Don McCubbing 1966 - 2015
Tyee Test (Gillnet) Fishery – DFO (1956 – present)
Skeena River Interior Summer Ecotype Stock Composition - 2015
Moricetown Canyon (Bulkley River) Mark-Recapture Project –Wet’suwet’en Fisheries (1999 – present)
Kloiya River Winter Steelhead Resistivity Counter (2006 – present)
Skeena Region Steelhead Molecular Genetics(1990 – present)
Kitwanga River Resistivity/Dual Beam Sonar –Gitanyow (2003 – present)
Upper Sustut River Enumeration Weir (1985, 1992 - present)
Nass River Fishwheels – Nisga’a/LGL (1992 –present)
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