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British Columbia Commercial Fishing
British Columbia is an important supplier of wild salmon. In 2007, the B.C. commercial seine, troll and gillnet fisheries in British Columbia harvested a total of around 11,000 tons of pink (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) and 4,100 tons of chum (Oncorhynchus keta) salmon.
Together, these two fisheries account for about 80 percent of the wild caught salmon from British Columbia.
The pink and chum salmon fisheries of British Columbia have applied for assessment to the The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) environmental standard for well managed and sustainable fisheries.
The MSC runs the only widely recognised environmental certification program for wild capture fisheries and plays an important role in creating a sustainable fishing industry worldwide.