Salmon Enhancement
Below is a variety of resources provided to the FNFC from the Continuing Studies in Science at Simon Fraser University and Watershed Watch Salmon Society entitled "Reconciling the conservation of wild salmon and the production of enhanced salmon under Canada's Wild Pacific Salmon Policy: A discussion" which took place on February 23-24, 2009 at SFU Vancouver, 515 West Hastings Street.


Canada's Policy for Conservation of Wild Pacific Salmon.
http://www-comm.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/publications/wsp/default_e.htm

Information on DFO's Salmonid Enhancement Program (SEP):
http://www-heb.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/facilities/salmonid_e.htm

Recommended Resource:

Gardner J, Peterson DL, Wood A, Maloney V. 2004. Making Sense of the Debate about Hatchery Impacts: Interactions Between Enhanced and Wild Salmon on Canada's Pacific Coast. Vancouver, BC: Prepared for the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council.

Recent articles of interest published after the above comprehensive report by the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council:

Special issue of Evolutionary Applications dedicated to Pacific salmon

Dylan, J. F. (2008). "How well can captive breeding programs conserve
biodiversity? A review of salmonids." Evolutionary Applications 1(4):
535-58
6.

Holt, C. A., M. B. Rutherford and R. M. Peterman (2008). "International
cooperation among nation-states of the North Pacific Ocean on the problem of
competition among salmon for a common pool of prey resources." Marine Policy
32(4): 607-617. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2007.11.001


Mantua, N.J., Taylor, N.G., Ruggerone, G.T., Myers, K.W., Preikshot, D.,
Augerot, X., Davis, N.D., Dorner, B., Hilborn, R., Peterman, R.M., Rand,
P.S., Schindler, D.E., Stanford, J.A., Walker, R.V., and Walters, C.J. 2007.
The salmon MALBEC project: a North Pacific-scale study to support salmon
conservation planning. North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission Doc. 1060:
49 pp.


Naish, K. A., J. E. Taylor, P. S. Levin, T. P. Quinn, J. R. Winton, D.
Huppert and R. Hilborn (2008). "An evaluation of the effects of conservation
and fishery enhancement hatcheries on wild populations of salmon." Advances
in Marine Biology 53: 61-194.


Schindler, D. E., X. Augerot, E. Fleishman, N. J. Mantua, B. Riddell, M.
Ruckelshaus, J. Seeb and M. Webster (2008). "Climate Change, Ecosystem
Impacts, and Management for Pacific Salmon." Fisheries 33(10): 502-506.
Speaking Notes:

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