Summary of Pacific salmon stock management units
The 2022 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 In addition, individual outlooks may be superseded with formal statistical forecasts and assessments, as they are completed and reviewed.
The complete version of the 2022 Salmon Outlook is available upon request. Please contact Dawn Lewis to receive a copy.
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 2022, eight SMUs units did not have enough information to provide an assessment. Sixty-one units were an assigned Outlook category or forecast.
- Overall, expectations for salmon returns are generally low and similar to 2021
- There are some exceptions:
- Some Fraser Sockeye, Fraser Chinook Summer 41s and some Georgia Strait Chinook stocks are expected to be abundant
- Average to near average returns expected for a few Fraser sockeye stocks, Barkley sockeye, Taku sockeye, enhanced WCVI Chinook, and some other chum and other Chinook systems
- Concerns identified for Interior Fraser conservation units (all relevant species) that are negatively impacted by the Big Bar landslide
Sockeye 2022 outlook
- 16 Stock Management Units
- 216 CUs
- Fraser: generally below average returns, near average for a few CUs
- Somass: below average to average returns
- Skeena: below average returns expected
- Nass: below average returns expected
Chinook 2022 outlook
- 20 Stock Management Units
- 80 CUs
- Northern BC: below average to average returns expected
- Southern BC: returns expected to remain low in the Fraser with the exception of a few CUs; mixed elsewhere.
Coho 2022 outlook
- 13 Stock Management Units
- 43 CUs
- Northern BC: below average returns expected
- Southern BC: Interior Fraser Coho remains low; mixed or low for the rest of southern inside, near average for WCVI.
Chum 2022 outlook
- 11 Stock Management Units
- 40 CUs
- Northern BC: below average to average returns expected
- Southern BC: minimal Fraser return expected, others below average
Pink 2022 outlook
- 9 Stock Management Units
- 31 CUs
- Northern BC: uncertainty and continued poor returns expected
- Southern BC: variable; below to average returns
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