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 fifth round of the LRP has now concluded. The Department reviewed offers to retire 142 licence eligibilities of which 102 were selected for retirement based on evaluation criteria and available funds. In total, vessel owners and licence eligibility holders have accepted offers to retire 65 licence eligibilities.

Offers accepted in the fourth round include the retirement of 13 seine, 46 gill net and 6 troll licence eligibilities. 

Since program launch, a total of 538 licence eligibilities have been retired after five rounds of licence retirements. These are the licence eligibilities retired by area:

Area 		        Rounds 	        Round 5	         Total		
                          1 to 4			         Retirements	
A			 21		 4		 25					
B			 31		 9		 40			
C			134		14		148			
D			 92		11		103			
E			122		21		143			
F			 40		 4		 44			
G			  8		 2		 10				 
H			 20		 0		 20				 
Stikine/Taku	           4		 0		  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 sixth and final round of the retirement program is planned to open by mid October. 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 - FN1079
Sent October 10, 2025 at 0913

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