A. Species
Scientific name: Oncorhynchus spp.
Common name(s): Salmon
Global IUCN Red List Threat Status:
B. Location of use
Geographic location(s):
- Pacific - northwest
Country/Region:
C. Scale of assessment
Scale of assessment: National Level
Name/Details of location: Alaska
D. Timescale of use
Start Year: 1987
End Year: 1993
E. Information about the use
How is the wild species sourced?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat
Type of use: Extractive
Practice of use: Targeted fishing harvesting/exploiting or collecting wild aquatic resources
Lethal or non-lethal: Lethal
Does this use involve take/extraction of: The whole entire organism
Purpose(s) of end use: Food and feed
Motivation of use: Income generation from trade (individual/household/community) and Largescale commercial exploitation for trade
Is this use legal or illegal?: Legal under national law
F. Information about the Users
Which stakeholder(s) does the record primarily focus on?: International private sector
G. Information about the sustainability of use
Is there evidence that the use is having an impact on the target species?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an ecological perspective been recorded?: No, sustainability not determined
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: "Despite the favorable geography, ecology, and hatchery siting, the most recent evidence suggests that mixed-stock fisheries may have become a problem in the western corridor into Prince William"
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: "What is important about the finding for fishers and managers is the advantage of collectively selling at least a portion of the catch live through a fishers' organization and distributing the benefits. In this case, the benefits were distributed by reserving 70% of the hatchery fish for area-licensed fishers to catch."
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a social perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: "Of course, there were community benefits as well, including an increase in processing jobs in the area and PWSAC's employing of about 100 local residents. Benefits also accrued to ADF&G, which saw relieved of some of the costs of harvest planning, regional enhancement planning, allocation, tag recovery, and operation of state hatcheries. In this type of cooperative management of resource enhancement, there are benefits to government and to a broad range of community residents, and opportunities for substantially improving the selling position of comanaging institutions and increasing the catch volume of their members."
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a human health perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an animal health/welfare perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Recommendations provided in the record to maintain or enhance the sustainability of the use of the target species
Record source
Information about the record source: scientific_pub
Date of publication/issue/production: 1994-01-01T00:00:00+0000
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Date of record entry: 2023-05-23