8950 Martin Luther King Jr. Street N. #202 St. Petersburg, Florida 33702-2211 Tel: (727) 563-9070 Fax: (727) 563-0207 Email: [email protected] West Kamchatka Salmon Fishery Ozernovsky RKZ No 55 Public Comment Draft Report 28 April 2020 Conformity Assessment Body (CAB) MRAG Americas, Inc. Assessment team Raymond Beamesderfer, Amanda Stern-Pirlot, Dmitry Lajus JSC Ozernovsky Fish Canning Plant #55, RK Zapadny LLC, Fishery client Rybkholkam LLC, Poseidon Ltd Assessment Type Initial Assessment MRAG-MSC-F13-v1.1 April 2020 Document Control Record Document Draft Submitted By Date Reviewed By Date ACDR RB, DL Sept 1 2019 ASP Sept 6 2019 CDR/PRDR RB, DL, ASP 31 Jan 2020 ASP 24 Feb 2020 PCDR RB, DL, ASP 25 April 2020 ASP 27 April 2020 MRAG Americas—West Kamchatka Ozernovsky RKZ No. 55 Public Comment Draft Report 2 MRAG-MSC-F13-v1.1 April 2020 Contents 1 Executive summary .............................................................................................. 5 2 Report details ....................................................................................................... 5 2.1 Authorship and peer review details ................................................................................... 5 2.2 Version details ...................................................................................................... 8 3 Unit(s) of Assessment and Certification, and Results Overview ........................... 9 3.1 Unit(s) of Assessment and Unit(s) of Certification ............................................................. 9 3.2 Assessment results overview ........................................................................................... 10 4 Traceability and eligibility .................................................................................. 10 4.1 Eligibility date .................................................................................................................. 10 4.2 Traceability within the fishery ......................................................................................... 11 4.3 Eligibility to enter further chains of custody .................................................................... 12 4.4 Eligibility of Inseparable or Practicably Inseparable (IPI) stock(s) .................................... 13 5 Scoring ................................................................................................................ 13 5.1 Summary of Performance Indicator level scores.............................................................. 13 5.2 Principle 1 ........................................................................................................................ 14 Overview of the fishery ........................................................................................ 14 Sockeye Salmon ................................................................................................... 28 Pink Salmon ......................................................................................................... 32 Chum Salmon ....................................................................................................... 40 PI 1.1.1 – Stock status .......................................................................................... 48 PI 1.1.2 – Stock rebuilding .................................................................................... 53 PI 1.2.1 – Harvest strategy ................................................................................... 54 PI 1.2.2 – Harvest control rules and tools .............................................................. 58 PI 1.2.3 – Information and monitoring .................................................................. 62 PI 1.2.4 – Assessment of stock status .................................................................... 66 PI 1.3.1 – Enhancement outcomes ........................................................................ 72 PI 1.3.2 – Enhancement management .................................................................. 73 PI 1.3.3 – Enhancement information .................................................................... 74 5.3 Principle 2 ........................................................................................................................ 76 Primary Species .................................................................................................... 77 Secondary Species ................................................................................................ 87 ETP Species .......................................................................................................... 89 Habitats ............................................................................................................... 91 Ecosystem Structure and Function ........................................................................ 93 MRAG Americas—West Kamchatka Ozernovsky RKZ No. 55 Public Comment Draft Report 3 MRAG-MSC-F13-v1.1 April 2020 PI 2.1.1 – Primary species outcome ...................................................................... 95 PI 2.1.2 – Primary species management strategy ................................................. 96 PI 2.1.3 – Primary species information .................................................................. 98 PI 2.2.1 – Secondary species outcome................................................................... 99 PI 2.2.2 – Secondary species management strategy ............................................ 101 PI 2.2.3 – Secondary species information ............................................................ 104 PI 2.3.1 – ETP species outcome ........................................................................... 106 PI 2.3.2 – ETP species management strategy ...................................................... 108 PI 2.3.3 – ETP species information ...................................................................... 111 PI 2.4.1 – Habitats outcome ............................................................................... 112 PI 2.4.2 – Habitats management strategy .......................................................... 114 PI 2.4.3 – Habitats information .......................................................................... 117 PI 2.5.1 – Ecosystem outcome ............................................................................ 119 PI 2.5.2 – Ecosystem management strategy ....................................................... 121 PI 2.5.3 – Ecosystem information ....................................................................... 123 5.4 Principle 3 ...................................................................................................................... 128 Legal & Customary Framework .......................................................................... 128 Management Structure - Consultation, Roles & Responsibilities ......................... 129 Fishery Objectives & Measures ........................................................................... 134 Enforcement ...................................................................................................... 138 Protected, Endangered, or Threatened Species ................................................... 139 Environmental Protection ................................................................................... 140 Research Plan .................................................................................................... 141 International Management ................................................................................ 141 PI 3.1.1 – Legal and/or customary framework .................................................... 143 PI 3.1.2 – Consultation, roles and responsibilities ............................................... 145 PI 3.1.3 – Long term objectives ........................................................................... 148 PI 3.2.1 – Fishery-specific objectives ................................................................... 149 PI 3.2.2 – Decision-making processes ................................................................. 150 PI 3.2.3 – Compliance and enforcement.............................................................. 154 PI 3.2.4 – Monitoring and management performance evaluation ....................... 157 6 References ........................................................................................................ 160 7 Appendices ....................................................................................................... 169 7.1 Evaluation processes and techniques ............................................................................ 169 7.2 Peer Review reports ...................................................................................................... 173 7.3 Stakeholder input .......................................................................................................... 192 7.4 Conditions & Client Action Plan ..................................................................................... 193 7.5 Surveillance ................................................................................................................... 200 7.6 Harmonised fishery assessments ................................................................................... 201 MRAG Americas—West Kamchatka Ozernovsky RKZ No. 55 Public Comment Draft Report 4 MRAG-MSC-F13-v1.1 April 2020 1 Executive summary The target species of this assessment are sockeye, chum and pink salmon, which are fished in the sea and Ozernaya,