Pacific Region Commercial Salmon Fishery In-season Catch Estimates ...

• Main Author: Parsley, Jason
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Fisheries and Oceans Canada 2022
• Subjects: Seine Net; Troll; Pink Salmon; Catch Reporting; Occurrences; Fisheries resources; Chinook Salmon; Logbook; Resources management; Events; Fishery Operations System FOS; Oncorhynchus; Fish; Commercial Salmon Fishery; Sockeye Salmon; Extended Measurement Or Fact; Fisheries management; Scientific information; In-season Estimates; Fisheries; British Columbia; Coho Salmon; Pacific Fishery Management Areas PFMA's; PFMA; Gill Net; Marine conservation areas; Pacific; Pacific Salmon; Pacific Ocean; Chum Salmon; Sockeye; Pink salmon
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/zv9wu8; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/265ad3f1-4fd7-4b22-9957-6fd9f0b9717c

The Fishery Operations System (FOS) is the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO) centralized Oracle database that holds commercial salmon fishery catch, effort and biological data. The FOS database was built in 2001 and continues to be the current repository for all data pertaining to DFO’s Pacific Region Commercial Salmon Logbook program.The Commercial Salmon Logbook program was initiated in 1998 with fleet wide participation made mandatory during the 2001 season. The program requires all commercial salmon fishers to record their daily catch and effort information in a harvest logbook and to subsequently report it to DFO using a service provider within deadlines defined in the conditions of licence. A portion of the information collected from the logbook program contains fisher personal information and is therefore protected and un-releasable. Fishery Managers use the fisher reported catch and effort, in addition to information collected from other sources such as overflights, to calculate ...