Annual Report

In line with its mandate, the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council provides an annual report on its activities and output. This report serves the worthwhile purpose of reviewing and summarizing the key findings, observations and recommendations contained in background papers and other Council publications produced in the 2010 calendar year.

In line with its mandate, the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council provides an annual report on its activities and output. This report serves the worthwhile purpose of reviewing and summarizing the key findings, observations and recommendations contained in background papers and other Council publications produced in the 2009 calendar year.

This is the tenth anniversary of the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council.  This annual report summarizes the Council's work performed in 2008 as well as provides a retrospective on issues addressed in the past decade concerning wild Pacific salmon stocks and their freshwater and ocean habitats.  In 2008, the Council produced and commissioned studies intended to contribute to better public understanding of the salmon resource and more effective conservation practices by everyone involved in the fisheries.  These reports are summarized here, as well as explanations of the outcomes of community meetings, briefings, and discussions with senior federal and provincial government officials.

This annual report by the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council summarizes the work performed in 2007. It discusses Council's perspectives on the threats, improvements and trends that are impacting wild Pacific salmon stocks and their freshwater and ocean habitats. In the past year, Council produced and commissioned several reports that contributed to the improvement of public understanding and resource management activities related to the ocean and freshwater environments for salmon. Those reports are summarized here, as well as explanations of the outcomes of community meetings, briefings, and discussions with senior federal and provincial government officials.

Council’s annual report for 2006 is now available. Activities, reports and provision of advice to governments on Pacific salmon and steelhead are summarized. Highlights include the provision of advice on implementation of the habitat and ecosystem components of DFO’s Wild Salmon Policy and the call for more innovation to solve the fisheries problems of the day.

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This annual report presented a summary of the publications and primary recommendations of the PFRCC in the preceeding year. It also provided an account of the activities in support of salmon protection and habitat restoration, and the perspectives of Council members on matters including the capacity of regulatory and management agencies to conserve Pacific salmon.

This annual report puts forward the current findings related to stock status and habitat conditions, and it presents a summary of the Council's viewpoint on some of the most significant and immediate matters of concern. In some instances, the comments summarize and clarify the positions explained in previous Council reports. In other cases, such as salmon aquaculture, this report contains the Council's more recent consensus views.

This report provides a preliminary summary of the state of stocks in 2001. It is preliminary because final spawner counts will not be available for a number of months.

This Annual Report of the Council reviewed the state of salmon stocks and related habitat conditions.