Report of the PSARC Salmon Subcommittee Meeting, November 14-16, 2000

The Subcommittee encouraged the authors to address the suggestions of the reviewers and the Subcommittee and to re-submit for PSARC review in time for fisheries management planning for the 2001 fishing season. [...] During the introductory remarks the objectives of the meeting were reviewed, and the Subcommittee accepted the meeting agenda (Appendix 1). [...] For Long Lake sockeye, the acoustic and trawl based estimates of juvenile production in Long Lake and the adult enumeration at the Docee fence at the outlet of Long Lake are currently the best sources of data to estimate these survivals. [...] In particular, he suggested that the authors provide advice to managers regarding the health of WCVI coho stocks, the impacts of recent management actions on the stock, and the likely range of sustainable exploitation rates for this stock group. [...] This reviewer agreed with the authors that the increase in spawning abundance in the last few years was due to the near elimination of fishing mortality, and this point could be strengthened with a calculation of estimated total abundance trends for the whole aggregate.