. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. International INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES COMMISSION REVIEW OF 1957 ERASER RIVER SOCKEYE SALMON RUN: The 1957 Fraser River sockeye salmon run represents a drastic departure in timing from that of the previous cycle in 1953, according to an August 19, 1957, news release for the Inter- national Pacific Salmon Commission. It was much later and spread over a much longer period of time. This char- acteristic change was anticipated because of a different moon phase, but to a lesser degree than actually occurred. The regulatory tendency
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. International INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES COMMISSION REVIEW OF 1957 ERASER RIVER SOCKEYE SALMON RUN: The 1957 Fraser River sockeye salmon run represents a drastic departure in timing from that of the previous cycle in 1953, according to an August 19, 1957, news release for the Inter- national Pacific Salmon Commission. It was much later and spread over a much longer period of time. This char- acteristic change was anticipated because of a different moon phase, but to a lesser degree than actually occurred. The regulatory tendency in such a situation is to underes- timate the size of the run from week to week. The size of fish was expected to be small on the 1957 cycle but the fish were smaller than expect- ed--averaged pounds for the Canadian gill-net catch and pounds for United States gill-net catch. The difference in weight is due to the minimum mesh restriction for United States gill nets. The current purse-seine SALMON PURSE-SEINER. errrfS*"')^*^^ average weight based on total numbers and total pounds landed for both Canada and the United States is pounds. This average weight is being held down by a catch of over 20 percent 3-year-old males averaging 3 pounds or less. More 3-year-old males are appearing to date than in 1953 preceding the 1954 Adams River run. The failure of the Canadian fishing fleet in Juan de Fuca Strait to take its ex- pected share of the run, the rise in the efficiency in the United States fishery, the estimated drop of 20 percent in the run, the drastic change in the timing and nature of the run, combined with the required long weekend closed seasons when no check was possible on the nature of the day-to-day migration, made regulatory control for adequate racial escapement and division almost impossible. To obtain adequate escapenaent a drastic reduction in the Fraser gill-net fishery was an unfortunate necessity as a last resort, but drastic reduct
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