Mark Selective Fishery Fund Committee

In the 2019 amendments to the Pacific Salmon Treaty, a Mark Selective Fishery Fund was established to assist fishery management agencies and partners with implementing mark selective fisheries in each country.

The fund supports a competitive grant program to:

a) mass-mark or sample hatchery-produced Chinook salmon,

b) estimate incidental mortality, and

c) maintain and improve the ability to estimate exploitation rates on Chinook salmon indicator stocks encountered in mark selective fisheries.

This work could include improvements and development of bilateral analytical tools. The United States has provided $3.575M USD to the fund, which the Commission expects to disburse over several years.

The U.S. and Canada have established a Mark Selective Fishery Fund Committee to solicit proposals for the use of this funding and to make recommendations to the Pacific Salmon Commission about the projects to select.