Pacific Science - Pelagic Fish

Pacific Science:
Pelagic fish

Brailing pelagic fish, two tons at a time, from seine net to hold (Click to enlarge 1950's photo).

Pumping Pacific herring from a seine net into a herring packer - trawler (Click to enlarge year 2000 photo).

Pelagic Fish
Marine Ecosystems and Aquaculture Division

Research and assessments of Pacific herring, Pacific sardine, northern anchovy, eulachon, smelt and other pelagic fishes of the Pacific Region.
Select a small, schooling pelagic fish...

Pacific Herring                     Pacific Sardine

Northern Anchovy                     Eulachon

Surf Smelt                     Other pelagic fish

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Fisheries Management - Pelagics & Minor finfish - Pacific Region.

Canadian Stock Assessments & Status Reports - Search for: herring, sardine or other pelagic fish - CSAS 1997 to 2006.

Pacific Region Research Documents - Select pelagics: Centre for Science Advice (CSA - Pacific Region) 1997 to 2006.

Pacific Region Stock Status & Science Advisory Reports - 2005.

Pacific Region State of the Ocean Reports - 1999 to 2005.

Pacific Herring of British Columbia - A geographical analysis of spawners, catches and tag returns, 1888 to 2006 (Pacific region atlas with links to data summaries, plots and on-line publications).

Eulachon & Herring - In Fish Stocks of the Pacific Coast, 2002.

Treaty and Aboriginal Fisheries Programs (AFS) 2006.

Pelagic Fisheries Consultations - Communications Branch, 2006.

DFO Extranet .... First-time users may need to register.
Science-based Review of Herring Management - Public Meetings: February, May and July 2003.

Try our pelagic fish ID test.

External Web Sites <<< Previous page or Top

Herring

Herring Conservation and Research Society (HCRS), Canada.
Pacific Herring - Indicator Series Environment Canada.
BC Roe Herring Fishery Report Card Sierra Club - Oct, 2003.
Cherry Point Herring Decline Washington Dept. Fish & Wildlife.
Pacific Herring Fishery California Dept. Fish & Game.
Pacific Herring Fisheries Alaska Dept. Fish & Game.
Herring Spawning Areas in Alaska ADEC, 2006.
Atlantic Herring Gulf of Maine Aquarium (USA & Canada).

Sardine and Anchovy

Pacific Sardine Canadian Pacific Sardine Association.
Pacific Sardine Fishery Washington Dept. Fish & Wildlife.
Pacific Sardine, Anchovy & Mackerel NOAA Fisheries Research.

Eulachon

Northwest BC - Natural History Royal BC Museum.
Oolichan Grease A Nass River Camp, Fishery Bay, B.C.
The Eulachon Discovering Lewis & Clark, Wash. Oregon, USA.
Subsistence Fisheries Alaska Dept. Fish & Game.
2001 Columbia River Eulachon Oregon Dept. Fish & Wildlife.
2003 Columbia River Eulachon Washington Dept. Fish & Wildlife.
2006 Columbia River Eulachon (smelt) Oregon Fish & Wildlife.
2006 Columbia Smelt - News release Washington Fish & Wildlife.

Forage fish and habitat

Forage Fish Research Alaska Fisheries Science Center - NOAA.
Forage Fish USGS - Cook Inlet and Glacier Bay, Alaska.
Forage Fish Washington Dept. Fish & Wildlife.
Surf Smelt Washington Dept. of Ecology.
Nearshore Spawning Habitat Friends of the San Juans, Wash.
Baynes Sound/Lambert Channel-Hornby Is. Important Bird Areas.

British Columbia coastal resource mapping (on-line GIS maps of pelagics)

Coastal Resource Information Management System BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands.
Sensitive Habitat Inventory Mapping Community Mapping Network.
Mapster Fisheries & Oceans Canada - Habitat & Enhancement.
Victoria Harbours Atlas Capital Regional District.

British Columbia environmental information

Tides, currents & water levels Fisheries & Oceans Canada - Canadian Hydrographic Service.

Lighthouse SST & salinity data Fisheries & Oceans Canada.

Fraser River Conditions Fisheries & Oceans Canada.

Hydrometric data (i.e. Fraser River @ Hope: station 08MF005): Water Survey of Canada.

River Forecast and Snow Surveys BC Ministry of Environment.

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