CPSA documents

The Association has several publications as background information. All files are in PDF format.

New:
• Discussion Paper
  — The Sardine Fishery: Sustainability and Development (200 Kb)

Previous documents:
• Quality and Standards in Sardines — CPSA Quality Manual (1.3 Mb)
• Two Thousand Years of Sardines: Sardinops sagax returns to BC (150 Kb)
• A Note on Sardines as an Economic Development Tool (21 Kb)
• Draft Management and Development Plan: Sardines in BC (30 Kb)
• Discussion Paper
  — A Management Plan for Sardines: Issues and proposals (28 Kb)
• Get Certified! A practical guide to the Marine Stewardship Council’s fishery certification process. (1.31 Mb)
• 2009 PSARC Report
  Proceedings of the Pacific Scientific Advice Review Committee (PSARC) meeting for the assessment of scientific information to estimate Pacific sardine seasonal migration into Canadian waters — Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat. (143 Kb)
• 2009 Globefish Commodity Update (1.35 Mb)

Research papers:
• Diet analysis of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off the west coast of
  Vancouver Island, British Columbia from 1997 to 2008 (315 Kb)
• Preliminary study on the use of polished otoliths in the age determination of Pacific
  sardine (Sardinops sagax) in British Columbia waters (833 Kb)

Comments on these papers can be emailed to the Association (details at left).

Other Reference Materials:

• Integrated Fisheries Management Plan (IFMP) 2009-2010 (787 Kb)