Salmon Head Recovery Program - Post results here

[Derby]

latest results from heads turned in this year... this one was intertesting 2022‐08‐05 637419 123 Chinook 3 Deschutes R 2

Salmon Recoveries

Please take a moment to review the following information you reported for your submitted salmon
heads, and in particular where and when you caught your fish. Occasionally we have to interpret
what is written or left blank on a head label.
Date Caught Label Tag Location Reported Area Rep. Species Rep. Length (mm)
2022‐06‐30 1435245 185096 No Location Provided 111‐A Chinook 830
2022‐08‐03 1429635 No Tag No Location Provided 23 Chinook 730
2022‐08‐05 1428708 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Chinook 690
2022‐08‐05 1428709 637419 Rats Nose 123 Chinook 690
2022‐08‐05 1428710 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Chinook 640
2022‐08‐14 1429351 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Chinook
2022‐08‐14 1429356 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Coho
2022‐08‐14 1429357 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Coho
2022‐08‐14 1429358 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Coho
2022‐08‐14 1429359 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Coho
2022‐08‐14 1429601 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Coho
2022‐08‐14 1429618 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Coho
2022‐08‐14 1429620 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Coho
2022‐08‐14 1429621 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Coho
2022‐08‐14 1429625 No Tag Rats Nose 123 Coho
2022‐08‐17 1429616 No Tag Harbour Entrance 23 Chinook 860
2022‐08‐21 1429613 091458 Little Beach 23 Chinook 740
2022‐08‐21 1429614 No Tag Sail Rock 23 Coho 540
2022‐08‐21 1429615 184695 Sail Rock 23 Coho 640
2022‐08‐21 1429617 No Tag Sail Rock 23 Coho

Date Caught Label Tag Location Reported Area Rep. Species Rep. Length (mm)
2022‐08‐22 1429624 No Tag Little Beach 23 Chinook 630

The following table shows where we have modified the published area.
Label Location Reported Area Reported Area Published

1429635 No Location Provided 23 123
1429613 Little Beach 23 123
1429614 Sail Rock 23 123
1429624 Little Beach 23 123


Salmon Releases
Of your submitted salmon heads, 4 contained coded wire tags.
The release details from your tagged salmon are presented below.
Date Caught Tag Area Species Age (yrs) Release or Hatchery Name Map Num
2022‐06‐30 185096 111 Chinook 5 Robertson Creek 1
2022‐08‐05 637419 123 Chinook 3 Deschutes R 2
2022‐08‐21 091458 123 Chinook 3 Bonneville Hatchery 3
2022‐08‐21 184695 23 Coho 3 Robertson Creek

 

[Stoisy]

Date Caught Label Tag Location Reported Area Rep. Species Rep. Length (mm)
2022‐06‐30 1435245 185096 No Location Provided 111‐A Chinook 830
2022‐08‐05 1428709 637419 Rats Nose 123 Chinook 690
2022‐08‐21 1429613 091458 Little Beach 23 Chinook 740
2022‐08‐21 1429615 184695 Sail Rock 23 Coho 640
...
Date Caught Tag Area Species Age (yrs) Release or Hatchery Name Map Num
2022‐06‐30 185096 111 Chinook 5 Robertson Creek 1
2022‐08‐05 637419 123 Chinook 3 Deschutes R 2
2022‐08‐21 091458 123 Chinook 3 Bonneville Hatchery 3
2022‐08‐21 184695 23 Coho 3 Robertson Creek

Pretty cool to see the RCH fish in the Hardy area.

 

[Derby]

ya .. I use fish Hardy for about 3 weeks and only see a couple clipped fish up there a year

 

[Charlie415]

 

[Original]

These things get around.

 

[Ned]

2022‐06‐27 1305647 211317 Escalante Point 125 Chinook 770
2022‐07‐27 1500973 No Tag Cullite Creek 20‐1 Coho 550
2022‐07‐27 1500974 No Tag Cullite Creek 20‐1 Chinook 640
2022‐07‐29 1305648 No Tag Hammond Rocks 20 Coho 550
2022‐08‐03 1505758 No Tag Walbran 20‐1 Coho 560
2022‐08‐04 1445700 No Tag Swiftsure Bank 121 Chinook 790
2022‐08‐08 1445676 No Tag Swiftsure Bank 121 Chinook 800
2022‐08‐10 1445677 No Tag Swiftsure Bank 121 Chinook 710
2022‐08‐10 1445678 No Tag Swiftsure Bank 121 Chinook 730
2022‐08‐10 1505617 No Tag Swiftsure Bank 121 Coho
2022‐08‐31 1323213 No Tag Hammond Rocks 20‐2 Coho 550
2022‐09‐14 1323216 No Tag Logan Creek 20‐1 Coho 640

Date Caught Tag Area Species Age (yrs) Release or Hatchery Name Map Num
2022‐06‐27 211317 125 Chinook 4 Co Line Pd B 1

It appears this hatchery is on the Skagit River near Marblemount

 

[Old Seadog]

Received results back from two fish caught in Oct, off of Sheringham Point. One had no tag & the other one was from the US. It was 3yr old fish, it was nice to know were the fish came from. I just want to thank all the people involved.

2022‐09‐06 091460 20 Chinook 3 Big Creek Hatchery

 

[WHO DAT]

.....

 

[James Costello]

Had an interesting one:

Date Caught Label Tag Location Reported Area Rep. Species Rep. Length (mm)

2022‐08‐12 1322807 No Tag Big Bank 123 Chinook 870
2022‐08‐21 1322808 185286 Wya 123 Chinook 840

Salmon Releases

Your submitted salmon head contained a coded wire tag.

The release details from your tagged salmon are presented below.

Date Caught Tag Area Species Age (yrs) Release or Hatchery Name Map Num

2022‐08‐21 185286 123 Chinook 5 Robertson Creek 1

Tag Prov/ State Release Location Hatchery Location Stock Brood Year Release Date Length (mm) Weight (g)
185286 BC Robertson Cr Robertson Creek H Robertson Cr 2017 2019‐04‐26

ADDITION: Found some more...



Interesting why?

The S1 smolts released seem to be having a better return ratio, as they are overrepresented in the tags compared to how many would be released. (AFAIK)

They're not comparatively big when they come back, even with a head start, meaning they were limited at some point and didn't carry that advantage throughout their journey.

One question would be whether the advantage was size or maturity of immune system at release.

Another would be whether we are able to recreate the "natural" 5 yr old fish using enhancement techniques, as the trajectory of over-wintered fish seems to drop steeply.

Endless opportunity for increasing our level of knowledge when it comes to salmon.

 

[Doug]

Just receive my salmon head Recovery Report for Aug/Sept. No CWT in any of our fish. I compared it to my logbook information and was surprised to see where most of our clipped fish were caught in Sooke.

The Victoria waterfront we landed 37 fish and 2 fish were clipped, and heads dropped off at ESQ Angler. Which works out to be .05% of the fish caught were clipped.

In Sooke we landed 21 fish and 4 were clipped and the heads dropped off at the Sooke Harbour and Marina. Which works out to be .19% of the fish we caught were clipped.

Sure, a lot more hatchery fish around Sooke. The CWT report for area 19/20, only shows that one fish head was turned in from the Sooke net pen? It also appears Robertson Creek fish with CWT have been caught the most in area 19/20. I also noted that only one fish with a CWT was caught in area 19 and 22 fish in area 20. See attached DFO report.

Hope I'm reading these report correct.

 

[Doug]

I have a DFO charter guide number and every clipped fish we catch is turned in at any DFO head recovery box and it has my # on it. DFO sends me a report at the end of the season which shows the status of all the fish submitted. Here is some general info on where CWT fish which came from area 19/20. Victoria/Sooke. We did not catch any of the fish on this report.

Other fishermen must be receiving the same reports or similar, but lots don’t, and the reports are interesting read.
I’m also wondering if other have received similar reports can they post them.

The report shows where the fish were raised and the year. It also show where the fish was caught.

As noted, 23 fish with CWT were caught in area 19/20.
Only one fish with a CWT was caught in area 19 Victoria and 22 CWT fish in area 20.

My personal logbook shows, In Victoria (area 19) we fished 13 trips and only 5% of the fish landed had been clipped. But had no CWT in them.
In Sooke (area 20) we fished 11 trips and 19% of the fish landed had been clipped. But had no CWT in them.
We caught 2X as many fish in Victoria as other locations.

Sure, appears that there are more clipped fish being caught in area 20.

The attached CWT recovery info report shows 12 fish with CWT were from BC and 11 fish with CWT were US. It appears more BC raised; CWT fish are being caught in Area 19/20 in Aug/Sept than US CWT fish..

 

[Deepaaaar]

Just got three back from this winter (Dec/Jan). No tags. Must've been American fish. One of them was over 10 lbs.

 

[mbowers]

I submit every head from my boat under one number so I don't have to fill out contact details on every head submitted. One head had a tag from Chilliwack River last Oct.


Nothing had tags from the winter fish.

 

[tinboatrobb]

This fish was 25 lbs. Caught it at 7:10am May 1 in the Gap in Oak Bay. I was on the water for a total of 25 minutes. I really hope they open Area 19 for Mayagain next year.