Fishery Notice

This notice is to provide an update on the Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative - Pacific Salmon Commercial Licence Retirement Program (LRP). 

The LRP provides an opportunity for salmon licence eligibility holders and/or vessel owners to retire their licence eligibilities.

The fourth round of the LRP has now concluded. The Department reviewed offers to retire 164 licence eligibilities of which 73 were selected for retirement based on evaluation criteria and available funds. In total, vessel owners and licence eligibility holders have accepted offers to retire 56 licence eligibilities.

Offers accepted in the fourth round include the retirement of 5 seine, 45 gill net, 5 troll and 1 Stikine/Taku River licence eligibilities. 

Since program launch, a total of 473 licence eligibilities have been retired after four rounds of licence retirements. These are the licence eligibilities retired by area:

Area 		Rounds 	       Round 4 	       Total		
                  1 to 3			       Retirements	
A		 21		 0		 21					
B		 26		 5		 31			
C		117		17		134			
D		 80		12		 92			
E		106		16		122			
F		 35		 5		 40			
G		  8		 0		  8				 
H		 20		 0		 20				 
Stikine/Taku	  3		 1		  4				 
Yukon River	  1		 0		  1				 

Any vessel owners who have successfully retired their commercial salmon licence eligibility(s) may be eligible to participate in the Derelict Vessel Mitigation and Gear Disposal Program which provides an opportunity to dispose of vessels and/or gear in an environmentally friendly way. For more information please contact the program at DFO.PSSIVesselGear-BateauEngrenageISSP.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca or 604-354-8010.

A fifth round of the retirement program is planned to open in early June. Details will follow in a separate notice. For information about the program, please visit https://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/salmon-saumon/comm-licence-retirement-retrait-permis/index-eng.html
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Harvey Eng (778)-228-8230

Fisheries & Oceans Operations Center - FN0501
Sent June 4, 2025 at 1512

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