Fisheries Monitoring
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Project Summary >
Salmon Catch Reporting Program
January 01, 2005
British Columbia, Canada
In 1998, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans implemented a commercial salmon catch
reporting program for all South Coast commercial salmon fisheries. This program required
commercial salmon fishers to record their retained catch, at sea releases, and time and location
information in a DFO Salmon Logbook for all fishing activities. There was also a requirement
for fishers to report their catch and release information by telephone immediately following
each opening. In 1999 and 2000 DFO contracted Archipelago to print and distribute the South
Coast Salmon logbooks and set up and manage a telephone service to collect in-season catch
reports. Phone-in information was recorded into a central DFO database via web based (intranet)
input screens. This provided catch data on a timely basis so that it could be used for in-season
management of the fisheries. In 2001, the program was expanded coast wide, since that time
Archipelago has provided the services listed above to the entire Salmon fleet.
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