Fishery Notice

The Sts'ailes and Scowlitz First Nations commercial economic opportunity 
fishery is open for beach seines daily from 07:00 hours to 17:00 hours, 
Wednesday, November 1, 2017.

This fishery is open in the following area: The Fraser River between the 
confluences with the Sumas River upstream to the Agassiz/Rosedale Bridge 
described as:

Those waters of the Fraser River bounded on the west by a line from a white 
boundary sign on the upstream side of the Fraser River at the mouth of the 
Sumas River, thence true north to a white boundary sign on the opposite shore 
and bounded on the east by the downstream side of the bridge across the Fraser 
River at Agassiz and those waters of the Harrison River downstream of the 
Highway Number 7 Bridge.

Only individuals designated by the Sts'ailes and Scowlitz First Nations are 
authorized to participate in this fishery.  All aspects of the communal licence 
will be enforced. Fish harvesters are advised to contact their band for a copy 
of the conditions of their fishing licence. 

Notes:

The target species in this fishery is chum salmon. Retention of hatchery marked 
coho salmon (i.e. fish with a healed scar in place of the adipose fin) caught 
incidentally is also permitted.  There will be non-retention of chinook, 
sockeye, pink, wild coho salmon (i.e. adipose fin is present), steelhead and 
sturgeon. Opportunities to harvest chum salmon will be constrained by 
management objectives for Interior Fraser steelhead which is a stock of concern 
presently co-migrating in the Fraser River.  All non-target species will be 
released back to the water alive and unharmed.

It is mandatory that all salmon retained under the authority of this licence be 
transported to the nearest landing station and made available for inspection.  
A monitor shall be present during all landing of catch to record the number and 
weight of each species of salmon delivered. 

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is monitoring seabird by-catch to 
determine potential impact on bird populations under current fishing effort and 
bird numbers. Fishers are requested to submit all dead birds entangled in nets 
to ECCC for species confirmation and DNA analysis to determine the colony of 
origin. 

Please drop carcasses off at a local DFO office, or contact ECCC directly by 
calling the Wild Bird Mortality Reporting Line 1-866-431-2473 (BIRD). Handle 
birds with gloves, double bag dead birds. Label bag with date, time, location, 
fishery opening and vessel name (skipper name isn't needed). Alternatively, 
please send photographs of birds with a reference object such as a coin, and 
the date, time, location, fishery opening and vessel name to 
laurie.wilson@canada.ca. Questions: contact Laurie Wilson 
(laurie.wilson@canada.ca, 604-862-8817).

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Sheldon Evers 604-666-8049

Fisheries & Oceans Operations Center - FN1160
Sent October 31, 2017 at 1239

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