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Many waters in the Skeena River system have been cited as having persistent steelhead angler-use issues — crowding, illegal guiding, etc. — and a degraded quality of angling experience.
In response to these concerns, the Ministry of Environment is implementing the Quality Waters Strategy in the Skeena River watershed. The strategy is a community engagement process, utilizing input from provincial, regional and local recreational angling sectors to identify waters of concern that require new or revised regulations. For more information on the Skeena Quality Waters Strategy, go to “Planning for World-Class Steelhead Fishing”.
The Skeena strategy is part of a
provincial Quality Waters Strategy that deals with quality waters across the province. For more in-depth reading, download the
Quality Waters Strategy Resource Document that was published in 2005
[PDF 391KB].
The community engagement process, which began in January 2008, will take almost a year to complete. For a summary of that process, go to Community Engagement Process.
The results of Phase I of the consultation process are now available in a Consultation Report.
The end product of the engagement process will be Angling Management Plans (AMPs) that will be developed with the assistance of stakeholder-based Working Groups. Working groups will recommend revisions to current sport fishing regulations as they pertain to steelhead angler-use issues on the Skeena. The AMPs do not address steelhead populations and conservation issues.
The Working Groups will also rely on a wealth of information available on angler use in the Skeena watershed. This includes a Historical Data Summary of Angler Use, available in the following downloadable files:
The Skeena Regional Quality Waters Management Committee, a local group of resident anglers and licensed guides, has been meeting for the past two years with the Ministry of Environment to oversee the Skeena Quality Waters Strategy, the community engagement process and the development of AMPs.
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