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Three million pink return to Johnstone Strait seen
The Fisheries Service is forecasting a greater than average run of 3.05 million pink salmon to the Johnstone Strait area this season, with peak abundance expected to occur by August 6.
The information is contained in a report circulated in the industry detailing 1975 pink returns and prospects for this season.
Regulations for the Johnston Strait fishery this year are designed to provide an improved escapement of 1.3 million area pinks with an average catch of 2.1 million fish from both area and Fraser River stocks. A greater than average catch of 570,000 million Fraser River sockeye is anticipated.
Regulations include closure of the fishery August 7 to 13 "for the protection of weak stocks," Fisheries says.
Total returns of pink salmon through Johnstone Strait are expected to total 4,216,000 fish, of which 1,298,000 will be Fraser-bound.
Of the 2,918,000 pinks returning specifically to the Johnston Strait area, the bulk will be Bond-Knight Inlet stocks.
Sockeye returning through Johnstone Strait are expected to number one million —nine tenths of them Fraser stocks composed primarily of Early Stuart, Late Stuart and Horsefly runs and about 100,000 Nimpkish River fish.
Peak abundance for Fraser River pinks is expected to occur the week ending September 3.,
Protection of upper Vancouver Island pink stocks will be accomplished through local boundary closures. In previous years some protection has been afforded by the closure of Goletas Channel, but the closure appears effective only for the southern streams of the sub-area. Escapement levels to streams in the northern portion still are declining and adequate protection to all streams supporting upper Vancouver Island stocks required additional boundary closures.
Thus it is proposed that waters within the surfline between Cape Scott-Cape Sutil will be closed, in addition to those of Goletas Channel.
Protection of five other weak area stocks (Puntledge-Tsolum returns to mid-Vancouver Island, Toba Inlet, Jervis Inlet, Howe
Sound and Burrard Inlet) can be achieved only by a reduction of the Johnstone Strait fishery. Thus it is being closed for one week when the abundance of these stocks will be at its maximum and that of stronger stocks at its minimum.
The 1975 Johnstone Strait area catch of both area and Fraser pinks totalled 1,420,441 — about .6 million less than expected.
Of the pink catch, seines took 90.1 percent, gillnets five and trollers 4.9 percent.
Of the sockeye catch of 189,479 — mainly Fraser stocks — seines claimed 59 percent, gillnets 39.9 and trollers 1.1 percent.
In 1975 the peak catch of pinks, totalling about 360,000 occurred in Area 12 during the four-day fishery September 7 to 11. A second but lesser peak of some 222,000 took place in the same area during a three-day effort August 24 to 27.
Escapement to the Johnstone Strait area totalled 1,606,190 pinks and was the second largest on recent record.
On a sub-area basis, five of the 10 received near optimum escapements. These were Johnstone Strait, mid-Vancouver Island, Kingcome Inlet, Bond-Knight and Loughborough-Bute.
Upper Vancouver Island, Toba Inlet, Jervis Inlet, Howe Sound and Burrard Inlet all received less than optimum escapements, though Burrard Inlet's escapement of 35,000 pinks to the Indian River was the third consecutive cycle for which that level of escapement had been maintained.
Stream conditions throughout the Johnstone Strait area were unfavorable during spawning and incubation periods of the 1975 cycle. Heavy floods in the fall devastated many spawning grounds and may have offset the benefits of near adequate excapements.
Major regulations for the balance of the current season provide, in Area 12, two-day fisheries for weeks ending August 6 and 20. Fishermen will get four days during the weeks ending August 27 and September 3, except in mainland inlets were they will be allowed only two. Two-day fisheries will be permitted during the weeks ending September 10 and 17, except in mainland inlets, which will be closed.
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False Head — Pulteney Point — donegal Head — Blinkhorn Peninsula Light was to end August 13. Goletas Channel and the waters within the surfline between Cape Scott-Cape Sutil closed July 24 until further notice.
Extended boundaries went into effect July 17 until further notice on the Cluxwe, Koegh and Adams Rivers.
Trolling may be restricted to net fishing times in the Queen Charlotte Strait-Blackfish Sound area between July 31 and August 20.
In Area 13, fishermen will get two days the week ending August 6, two days August 20 and four days during weeks ending August 27 and September 3. Fishingtime will be reduced to two days weekly September 10 and 17.
Mainland inlets will close August 14 until further notice.
In Georgia Strait (Areas 14, 15 and 16), during the seven weeks ending August 20, four days weekly are allowed in Sabine Channel and the west coast of Texada Island region of Area 16, and the balance of Areas 14, 15 and 16.
The three areas will close August 27 until further notice.
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