Pacific Salmon Head Recovery Depot Locations and Contacts

Location and contact information for Pacific Recreational Fishery Salmon Head Recovery Depots. The data supports a program where anglers submit salmon heads to recover coded-wire tags, with Canada and the United States annually tagging over 50 million juvenile salmon, including 5.5 million tags applied by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Use Cases

• Map depot locations to analyze geographic coverage for coded-wire tag recovery efforts.
• Use contact information to coordinate head submission logistics for anglers catching adipose fin-clipped salmon.
• Link depot data with tag recovery rates to assess the effectiveness of the salmon stock monitoring program.

Strengths

• Data originates from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the authoritative government agency for Canadian fisheries.
• Supports a large-scale biological monitoring program involving over 50 million tagged juvenile salmon annually.
• Available in multiple formats including ESRI REST, PDF, and CSV for different analytical needs.

Limitations

• The specific data schema, including column names and row counts, is not provided in the input.
• The description focuses on the program context rather than the dataset's structure or completeness.
• Potential for geographic bias if depot coverage is not uniform across all fishing regions.

Provenance

Source

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Collection Method

Collected as part of the Pacific Recreational Fishery Salmon Head Recovery program where anglers submit salmon heads to depots.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Pacific regions of Canada, relevant to recreational fishing areas.