{"id":6295,"date":"2014-12-10T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2014\/12\/10\/wild-salmon-review-published\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:58:55","slug":"wild-salmon-review-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/wild-salmon-review-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild salmon review published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The analysis covers 82 principal Pacific salmon fisheries that target five species (pink, chum, sockeye, coho, and Chinook salmon) across the North Pacific and account for 95% of the global wild-capture commercial salmon harvest.<\/p>\n<p>The fisheries are rated as either category A, B or C depending on the quality of the management and the status of the stock. An \u2018A\u2019 fishery is considered \u2018very well managed\u2019 while a \u2018B\u2019 category fishery is considered to be \u2018reasonably well managed\u2019. A category \u2018C\u2019 fishery is considered to be poorly managed and in need of significant improvements.<\/p>\n<p>The report concludes that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>52% of the total volume of Pacific salmon comes from A or B rated fisheries. This includes 99% of coho, 87% of sockeye, 60% of pink, 48% of Chinook, and 23% of chum salmon global harvest <\/li>\n<li>48% of the total volume of Pacific salmon comes from fisheries rated C. 22% is accounted for by Russian fisheries with illegal fishing issues; 13% by Japanese chum fisheries with hatchery issues; and 10% by Prince William Sound, Alaska, fisheries with hatchery issues <\/li>\n<li>74% of Alaskan, 95% of British Columbian, and 47% of Russian salmon harvest volumes come from well or reasonably managed fisheries <\/li>\n<li>All of the Pacific Northwest US and Japanese fisheries included in the report need significant improvements <\/li>\n<li>In 2013\u20132014, the salmon sector exhibited increased engagement in the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) program. Over half (50.3%) of global supply now comes from fisheries either certified by or under full assessment by MSC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report is available <a href=\"http:\/\/cmsdevelopment.sustainablefish.org.s3.amazonaws.com\/2014\/12\/04\/Pacific_Salmon_SFP_Sector_Report_2014_dec01-ea8f0079.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership\u2019s (SFP) annual review of the state of wild salmon fisheries, half of wild-caught salmon come from \u2018well or reasonably\u2019 managed fisheries, the other half from fisheries that need \u2018significant improvements\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6297,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions\/6297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}