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Management of salmonids in Asturias Development
and protection
Juan Antonio Lázaro Forshaga - May 2005
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Presentation Outlines I Supply II Management III
Demand IV Conclusions V Proposals
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• I Supply Fluvial Ecosystems
• Short, plentiful and few contaminated rivers,
  with a wide hydrographic network.
• Scarce ichthyologic species variety but with the
  presence of especies with high sportive interest
  (Salmon, Trout, Sea trout...)
• Outstanding salmon catches volume (90 of spanish
  salmon catches)
• Environmental problems due to the presence of
  power plants without ladder and pollution in
  industrial and urban areas

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• I Supply Fluvial ecosystems (Conclusions)
• Asturias has the best salmon rivers of south
  Europe
• Catches are going down slowly
• Quality water is better than ten years ago
• The river forest is more than artificial channels
• We are controling our natural stocks (Salmon and
  trout)
• Our rivers will have a good future (I hope ??)

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• II Management
• In Asturias we have only public waters, so
  Regional Goverment has the management of all
  fishing areas (Since 1984)
• The Environmental Regional Service sells licences
  and tickets for fishing areas and provides
  fishing and hunting guards
• The Environmental Regional Service controls all
  the natural and artificial salmonids stocks and
  the fluvial ecosystem

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• II Management Waters Classification
• You need a regional licence for fishing in
  Asturias continental waters (14 /year for
  salmon)
• You need a day ticket for Restricted Waters (From
  6 to 35/ day) and licence too
• Two areas in our waters
• 1- Forbbiden Waters (where fishing is not
  permitted) are 10 of our continental waters)
• 2- Fishing Areas Free Waters (licence) and
  Restricted Waters (licence day ticket)

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• II Management Fishing areas
• Free waters Trout, salmon and mountain areas,
  with non kill areas ( 80 of our waters) Without
  limited access but limited catches, licence it is
  only necessary.
• Restricted Waters Salmon and sea trout (Regular
  and Non Kill) and Trout (Regular, Non Kill and
  Fisheries). Limited acess, and catches, for a
  specific number of fishers and permits per year,
  you need your licence and ticket.

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• II Management Restricted Fishing areas
• Salmon areas
• 61 areas and 183 rods/day (20.679 tickets/year)
• Trout areas
• 48 areas and 271 rods/day (45.548 tickets/year))
• Catch and release 19 areas and 89 rods/day
  (17.988 tickets/year)
• Regular 27 areas and 122 rods/day (15.860
  tickets/year)
• Intensive 2 areas and 60 rods/day (11.700
  tickets/year)
• Sea trout areas
• 61 areas and 183 rods/day (4.941 tickets year)
• 71.168 tickets/year for angling

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• III Demand Sportfishermen
• We need to draw for the ticketsto have chance of
  fishing in restricted areas because demand is
  bigger than supply (is increasing). The winner
  will take the first ticket
• Salmon - Each angler has only two/three (one good
  and two quite good) tickets for salmon restricted
  areas/ season
• Trout - Each angler has only two tickets for
  trout restricted areas/ season
• Sea Trout - Each angler has only one ticket for
  sea trout restricted areas/ season

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• IV Conclusions
• Supply and demand are not very controlled. We do
  not know number of fishers angling in the rivers.
• It is requiered to restructure the management
  model to control fishing acesses in all areas.
• It is necessary to reorganize water areas
  creating controlled fishing areas (Restricted and
  Free Waters)
• There is no balance betwen free waters (80) and
  restricted waters (10)
• Weve some problems with our natural salmon and
  trout natural stoks (Naturlas spooning areas are
  going down)

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• V Proposals
• We need to create controled fishing areas in all
  our continental waters, because we need to know
  which is number of anglers if we want to have a
  good management (To know-To think-To make)
• We need to change the size and the drawing rules
  for restricted areas
• We need to have quality waters and fishes for
  everybody (not only anglers)
• THE BEST PROTECTION IS TO DEVELOP THE RESOURCE

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Management of salmonids in Asturias Development
and protection
Juan Antonio Lázaro Forshaga - May 2005