Fisheries committee  Yes. Annually, the department surveys many streams and counts the species that return to spawn every year. Most of the chinook populations have 25 or 30 chinook. Even a lot of the enhanced systems that have been.... I described the Nahmint River. I was just doing a summary of

Fisheries committee  Yes. It was extremely disappointing in the final minutes to have the department keep the eggs and do a fry release instead of allowing us to pick them up to grow them as S1s. Just so you know, for the Henderson project, we had a five-year private commitment to pay for the entire

Fisheries committee  An S1 is very different from an S0. They are much more physiologically developed, mentally developed and immune-developed. That is why S1s migrate very quickly in the early spring, whereas S0s take a lot of time and use the estuaries. In the farming industry, we found that as soo

Fisheries committee  I was aware of it through seeing emails come across my desk. With the local stewardship groups that I participate in, there really hasn't been any discussion about the money. With our enhancement, our information and our solution to rebuild the chinook stocks, the problem is that

Fisheries committee  With regard to an S0, most salmon spawn in the fall, and they emerge from the gravel in the spring at half a gram. In most systems in the lower reaches, the fry will go to the estuaries and into the ocean right away, and that's called an S0. In the upper reaches, the fish remain

Fisheries committee  All fish have the ability to go out as S0s, S1s or S2s. What dictates that is genetics, but so do food availability, water temperature and development. Just listen to this one interesting thing: In the farming industry—I farmed Chinook for many years—when we entered S0 smolts, e

Fisheries committee  Are you referring to the Henderson Lake project that was supposed to commence last fall?

Fisheries committee  When we started to talk about Henderson Lake, we approached DFO with the Uchucklesaht tribe and asked them what they required. Within two and a half years we had everything in place and a standard IT permit. They had taken the eggs at the hatchery, which was Nitinat, because Hend

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chair and committee members for the opportunity to provide information regarding the state of the salmon. My name is Carol Schmitt, and last fall marked 40 consecutive years that I've raised chinook salmon. I'm a graduate of the BCIT fish wildlife program, having an e

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chair.

Fisheries committee  Yes. In the four release datasets that we have—two for Phillips River, one for Sarita, and one for Nahmint—Nahmint River and Phillips River both saw reappearances of six-year-old chinook that were over 30 pounds. Any hatchery enhancement manager has always said that the minute

Fisheries committee  They designed all their hatcheries originally to produce these quick S0s, where you spawn the fish in the fall; they are grown rapidly the first three months in fresh water on high-energy diets to get them to three to five grams by the first of May, and they would release them. H

Fisheries committee  This is just a comment on [Technical difficulty—Editor] size. Earlier, I believe 16 trials that federal Fisheries did with the S1s at their own warm hatcheries produced a large number of jacks, and the females returned at three years old. We [Technical difficulty—Editor] fish s

Fisheries committee  Okay. We have fewer jacks, low straying, and older and larger tyee—over 30-pound—chinooks have returned from the S1 releases. We have a solution here. SARA outlined four objectives for the recovery of the southern resident killer whale. Our work is applicable to objective numb

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, yes, we can, and thank you for inviting us to provide our knowledge and experience in support of the endangered southern resident killer whales and all the fisheries, all of which are dependent on healthy chinook populations. I'm an owner-operator of Omega Pacific Hat