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Types of Salmon
Types of Fishing
The Players
Concerns
Fun Facts
100
This is the most important commercial fish found in Southern California to Alaska and weighs up to 15 pounds.
What is Sockeye
100
This is used for salmon catching, and is marked by long poles that extend over the sides of a vessel while fishing.
What is Trolling
100
They operate 4000 boats, fish for salmon in coastal and river mouth waters up and down BC's coast. Recreation fleet involves about 350 thousand licensed anglers. Thousands of Aboriginals are also involved, fishing in rivers for food or profit. In some limited cases, conducting for profit fisheries in salt water.
What is Commercial Fishers
100
This group has concerns with commercial fishing because it gives them less and less access to fish as a means of maintaining their livelihoods
What is the First Nations Peoples
100
This is what happens to most salmon after they spawn
What is DEATH
200
This is mainly used for canning, found in southern California to the high Arctic, Korea and Japan, and can weigh upto 15 pounds.
What is Pink Salmon.
200
A huge net that is set out from a platform or table at the stern. The net is then manoeuvred to encircle a school of fish.
What is Purse Seining
200
These five Salmon species are being caught by fisherman.
What is Chinook, Chum, Coho, Pink and Sockeye.
200
This practice is a concern because it provides a place for disease, infection and parasites to grow
What is Fish Farming
200
It is through this that salmon find their way home
What is sense of smell.
300
This prized sport fish is found in Baha California, Mexico to the Berring Sea, to Korea and Northwestern Japan. It can weigh upto 15 pounds.
What is Coho Salmon
300
From a drum on the stern of a boat, a net is set out and hangs like a curtain in the water. Fish become entangled as they swim through the net.
What is Gill Netting
300
The amount of commercial salmon boats.
What is 4300
300
The this allows disease, infections and parasites to be transferred from farmed fish to wild stocks
What is Open net-pens
300
Some Salmon migrate so far as to visit this place and back
What is Japan
400
Ranked lowest among Pacific salmon in the Northwest, it is often smoked because of its high oil content.
What is Chum Salmon
400
Pacific ground fish include ling, grey and black cod, ocean perch, soul and flounder. These fish are all caught using this method: a large bag shaped net that is dragged along the ocean floor. The net is held open by boards called doors, and the fish are caught in the closed end of the net.
What is Otter Trawling
400
The average percent of fishing boats who employ the Gill net method.
What is 27%
400
The fish are often treated with antibiotics to combat the disease, which also spills out into the surrounding life. The exposure leads to this
What is antibiotic resistance.
400
These salmon are also known as 'dog' salmon because of the Inuit people used to freeze them and feed them to their dogs in the winter.
What is Chum salmon.
500
The heaviest champ of the Northwest, sometimes referred to as Spring Salmon, can weigh up to 130 pounds, and is a popular fish species at fish farms. It's used for canning and freezing, and it's found from Southern California to High Arctic and Russia.
What is Chinook Salmon
500
This is used to catch halibut and Pacific coast cod. The gear consists of strong rope made up in lengths to which are attached shorter lines that have baited hooks.
What is Longlining
500
This salmon species has been caught the most.
What is Pink, at 15.3 million.
500
This displaces the native stock of salmon in BC waters.
What is escaped Atlantic Salmon from fish farms.
500
Because they swim in both Salt and Fresh water, Salmon are one of the few creatures called _____
What is "anadromous"