1. North Shore Streamkeepers February 23, 2019
An update on the Wild Salmon Policy (WSP) Implementation Plan
North Shore Streamkeepers
February 23, 2019

2. Outline
Developing the Plan - Process Recap
Key Elements of the Plan
Moving forward with Implementation

3. Process Used to Develop the WSP Implementation Plan
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4
October 2016 – February 2017
Setting up the process
Spring-Summer 2017
Developing a draft implementation plan
Fall 2017 – Spring 2018
Consulting on a draft implementation plan and finalizing the document based on input
2018 onward
Annual and 5 year Reporting; 3 year update with Fisheries Act activities

4. What we heard in developing the Plan
Don’t mess with policy
Build trust and strengthen relationships/process
Strengthen guidance tools and support to local level
Clearer depiction of governance
Unique context in Yukon
Desire for better access to data and tools
Request for further information on topics including aquaculture, SEP, Fisheries Act, SARA, Steelhead, habitat, red CUs

5. Wild Salmon Policy 2018-2022 Implementation Plan (the Plan)
Coordinated DFO action plan that describes how DFO will use its scientific and management expertise to meet its responsibilities for the conservation of wild Pacific salmon over the next 5 years
Builds on 13 years of WSP work to protect and restore wild Pacific salmon populations
Sets out 48 targeted activities, timelines, and reporting accountabilities to support the WSP goal, including common guidance and standardized methods

6. Three Plan Themes: Assessment, Maintaining and Rebuilding Stocks, Accountability

7. DFO WSP Commitments Theme Number of Activities Assessment – Strategy 110
Assessment - Strategy 2&3 14
Maintaining and rebuilding – Strategy 4 16
Maintaining and rebuilding – Strategy 5 5
Accountability 3
Total 48

8. Moving forward together
Jurisdictions and regulatory frameworks related to the management of Pacific salmon and salmon habitat are complex Healthy Pacific salmon populations in the future depend on work being done by First Nations, federal and provincial agencies, fishing and stewardship organizations, ENGOs and communities across BC and Yukon.

9. What Can Partners Do?: Potential Areas for Focus
Assessment
Data collection
Data sharing opportunities
Furthering assessment and science
Maintaining and rebuilding salmon and habitat
Participate in integrated planning
Take on specific rebuilding efforts including restoration
Strategic planning
Reprioritizing and
First Nations socio-economic study framework.
Accountability
Consider opportunities for enhanced or coordinated salmon- focused governance (e.g. Roundtable)
Review Annual Update
Collaborative Model of Delivery

10. Working Together - Next steps
Next five years will emphasize delivery, reporting and partnerships
What would you like to see in a collaborative process going forward to support this work?

11. Where to find it: Public Access to Documents & Annual Reporting

12. ANNEX

13. DFO’s Commitment to Assessment Strategy 1: Standardized Monitoring of Wild Salmon Status
10 activities including these priorities to 2022:
Implement prioritization method for assessing and monitoring CUs or groups of CUs
Modify or develop metrics and document new status assessment methods
Consolidate and improve documentation of standards for internal and external monitoring programs and improve data sharing through open data portal

14. DFO’s Commitment to Assessment Strategies 2 &3: Assessment of Habitat Status & Inclusion of Ecosystem Values & Monitoring
14 activities including these priorities to 2022
Identify a set of core environmental indicators associated with ecosystems
Complete on the Risk Assessment Method for Salmon (RAMS)
Deliver the State of the Salmon Program to track and understand salmon trends
Work with the Pacific Salmon Foundation on the Pacific Salmon Explorer

15. Maintaining and rebuilding: salmon and habitat
Commitment to integrated planning at MU scale with CU scale information as part of the plan
Uses available inputs to make decisions for action
Rebuilding efforts include
restoration
harvesting levels and approaches
enhancement
Protection/SARA at play in some cases
Sometimes broader than 2005 Policy – e.g. precautionary approach to aquaculture; Chinook protection for SRKW

16. DFO Commitment to Maintaining & Rebuilding Strategy 4: Integrated Strategic Planning
16 activities including these priorities to 2022
Develop an initial set of long-term strategic plans (rebuilding) for prioritized Red CUs/MUs
Complete recovery potential assessments for the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
(COSEWIC) assessed salmon species/stocks, and begin SARA Recovery Strategies, Action Plans and Management Plans for SARA listed species
Investigate new research tools to diagnose and study disease and other conditions affecting wild salmon
Continue to inform, develop, and implement sustainable aquaculture measures to mitigate impacts to wild salmon

17. DFO Commitment to Maintaining & Rebuilding Strategy 5: Annual Program Delivery
5 activities including these priorities to 2022
Continue to assess the status of salmon populations
Continue to plan and conduct annual fisheries through Integrated Fisheries Management Plans
Continue to encourage and support partners (First Nations, community partners and other stakeholders) in habitat management through DFO programming and the Province of BC and Yukon Territory
Continue to plan and implement annual salmon enhancement

18. Accountability
Focus on how we integrate our work within DFO and with others
Internal governance structures such as the Strategic Salmon Director’s Committee and the WSP Committee
External governance structures such as collaborating with BC and Indigenous groups and governments
Focus on public reporting and transparency
Annual Reporting
Adding in commitments from new programming, including potential Fisheries Act programming
5 year review

19. DFO commitment to Accountability Strategy 6: Performance Review
3 activities including these priorities to 2022
Public reporting on the WSP Implementation Plan
Update the WSP Implementation Plan, as necessary, based on renewed Fisheries Act