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[TD="class: NormalTextBlack, width: 500"] COMMERCIAL - Salmon: Seine
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[TD="class: NormalTextBlack, width: 500"] FN0522-COMMERCIAL - Salmon: Seine - Area B - Area 23 - Alberni Inlet Sockeye - Opening [/TD]
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The involvement of the Area B seine fleet in the Alberni Inlet sockeye fishery is dependent on the Area B Seine Harvest Committee developing and implementing a fishing plan that limits the harvests of sockeye to weekly target allocations. This fishing opportunity is possible due to the cooperation between Fisheries Management staff and the Area B Harvest Committee to actively manage this weekly fishing plan. As a result, Area B vessel masters and vessels must be designated by their representative Working Group body and subsequently by the Area B Harvest Committee to participate in this fishery. This fishery will not proceed should undesignated seine vessels attend or attempt to participate in this fishery. The target catch for this opening is 40,000 sockeye. The 2012 pre-season forecast for Somass sockeye is 700,000. Commercial allocation at this run-size is 265,895. Seine allocation is 60% or 102,870. Gill net catch to date is approximately 32,000. There has been no seine catch to date. Run-size review and re-forecast will take place June 28. Area 23 - Alberni Inlet
Seines open from 10:00 hours Monday, June 25 to 10:00 hours Wednesday June 27, 2012 or until the target catch is reached, whichever occurs first, in the following areas:
- In that portion of Subarea 23-1 bounded in the north by a line from Polly Point to Stamp Point and in the south by a line from Dunsmuir Point light to a point located at 49Ú09.660 North, 124Ú47.720 West on the west side of Alberni Inlet north of China Creek; and - In that portion of Subarea 23-2 southerly of a line from the Light at Hocking Point then drawn easterly 90 degrees true to a point on the opposite shore located at 49Ú05.260 North and 124Ú49.158 West. Minimum bunt mesh size is 70 mm. The target species is sockeye, incidentally caught Coho may be retained. Pink, Chum, Chinook and Steelhead may not be retained. All catch must be brailed and the use of power skiffs is approved. Variation Order No. 2012-SAL-23-SN-01 Notes: For 2012 there are mandatory logbooks and dockside monitoring for all sockeye seine openings in Alberni Inlet. Please contact JO Thomas and Associates to arrange for dockside monitoring at - 1-866-930-4000 and phone 1-877-280-3474 to obtain a Logbook. Fishermen must hail their catch to a service provider within 24 hours of the closure of the fishery. A large recreational fleet is expected to be fishing in and near the areas open to seine fishing. Vessel masters are requested to avoid fishing near concentrations of recreational vessels and to travel at slow speed to minimize wake height when transiting through the recreational fishery. DFO Port Alberni may request catch updates by radio. Please advise Test-fishing vessel Nita Maria of catch if requested. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Mike Spence, Resource Manager, Port Alberni (250) 720 4440 [/TD]
