Summary of Pacific salmon stock management units
The 2025 outlook should be regarded as an early scan of salmon production, and is subject to change as more information becomes available. In addition, individual outlooks may be superseded with formal statistical forecasts and assessments, as they are completed and reviewed.
A ‘stock management unit’ (SMU) is a ‘group of one or more conservation units (CU) that are managed together with the objective of achieving a joint status’. Region-wide, there are 409 CUs that make up 69 Stock Management Units of Pacific salmon. In 2025, 12 SMUs units did not have enough information to provide an assessment. 57 units were an assigned Outlook category or forecast.
Major stocks summary
Yukon Transboundary
- 16 stock management units
- Taku Chinook and sockeye are expected to have above average returns.
- Taku coho, Alsek Chinook, coho and sockeye are expected to have average returns
- Yukon and Stikine stocks are expected to return well below average
North Coast
- 22 stock management units
- Nass stocks are expected to have above average returns with the exception of Nass Chinook (below average)
- Skeena sockeye, pink and chum are expected to have above average returns, Skeena Chinook and coho, below average
South Coast
- 16 stock management units
- Georgia Strait and West Coast Vancouver Island Enhanced Chinook are expected to have above average returns
- Georgia Strait and West Coast Vancouver Island coho can expect an average return
- Somass sockeye returns are expected to be average
Fraser and Interior
- 15 stock management units
- Fraser Chinook stocks are expected to be below average with the exception of two Summer 41 CUs
- Fraser sockeye returns range from well below average to above average
- Fraser pink are expected to have above average returns
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