Final Report Fisheries

Includes sections on: Resource Management and development; Commercial fisheries; Indian and sport fisheries; policy mechanisms; Yukon; Toward policy reform. Appendices include Commission's terms of reference, current and optimum catch and escapement estimates for salmon.

Excerpt from Turning the Tide: A New Policy for Canada's Pacific Fisheries; Final Report The information in this report has been obtained in a variety of ways, the most important being the Commission's public hearings. All those who wished to make a presentation on the matters within the terms of reference were invited to participate in hearings set up in coastal and interior centres in British Columbia and Yukon. The hearings took place against a background of anxiety about the state of the fisheries and uncertainty about government regulations. Soon after the Commission was struck last year the Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced a series of new restrictions on commercial and recreational fishing. The ensuing debate over these measures, and the way they were implemented, heightened concern about fisheries policy. At the same time, Canada's important negotiations with the United States over a new international accord, relating mainly to interception of Pacific salmon, faltered and raised new apprehensions. And several industrial development projects have recently generated public controversies over their impacts on fish habitat. The concern generated by these issues and the generally depressed eco nomic condition of the industry have created deep dissatisfactions with government regulatory policy, and no doubt account for the high level of interest and participa tion in the hearings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.