Final Advisory Letter
Final report of the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council in its role as advisors on wild Pacific salmon and steelhead stocks and habitat.
Glossary
PFRCC maintains an extensive glossary of terms related to fisheries and conservation. You can download the entire document here, but we’ve highlighted a few terms here:
- Berm
A mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation
- Broodstock
The pool of captured adult salmon a hatchery has available for artificial spawning. This pool can be made up of wild and/or returning hatchery salmon
- Depressed Stock
Stock with an abundance or production rate that is significantly below its expected or average capability
- DFO
Department of Fisheries and Oceans, also referred to as Fisheries & Oceans Canada, federal agency responsible for managing Pacific salmon and their habitats
- Enhancement
Man-made alterations to natural habitats or application of artificial culture techniques that are intended to lead to increased abundance of juvenile salmon
- Escapement
The number of fish escaping from a fishery. The escapement from all fisheries is the spawning escapement (i.e., the fish reaching their natal spawning stream)
- Estuary
Area consisting of the mouth or the lower course of a river in which the river’s current meets the sea’s tide
- Fecundity
The number of eggs per female
- Fluvial
Relating to, or inhabiting, a river or stream
- Freshet
High run-off flows in a stream, as in during snowmelt periods in the interior part of the province