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Skeena Quality Waters Strategy

Community Engagement Process

Final recommendations of Working Groups

The Working Groups held three weekend-long meetings in May and June 2009 to revise their draft recommendations for Angling Management Plans. The Working Groups developed their final recommendations referencing information from the Phase II Consultation Report (see below).

To view the final Working Group recommendations, click here.

Phase II Consultation completed

The Phase II consultation process began with the release of the draft recommendations for Angling Management Plans for the Skeena Quality Waters Strategy. This process started on October 17, 2008 and ended on November 30, 2008.

The Phase II consultation process asked public and stakeholders the following questions:

  • What do you like about the draft Angling Management Plan?
  • What don’t you like about the draft plan?
  • How should the plan be changed to better address the issues the community has raised?

The goal of the Phase II consultation process was to gather feedback on the draft Angling Management Plan. This feedback was collected for the stakeholder-based Working Groups to use in revising the draft plan to better reflect all community interests.

The general public and stakeholders were invited to provide their input to the process through the following channels:

  • A total of 28 sectoral stakeholder meetings held in the communities of Houston, Smithers, Hazelton, Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert in October and November 2008; 228 people attended
  • Six Public Open Houses held in November 2008 in the major urban areas of the watershed with145 people attending
  • An online Response Form; 428 respondents participated who were divided into five User-Groups: resident angler (144), non-resident alien (NRA) (207), non-resident Canadian (NRC) (36), local business (26), and guide (15)
  • About 350 emails sent directly to the facilitator
  • Phone calls with the facilitator

The results and conclusions based on all this community input during the Phase II consultation process are now available in the complete report (about 67 pages) or the Executive Summary (14 pages)

Download the complete Phase II Consultation Report [PDF 67 pages/401KB]

Download the Executive Summary for the Phase II Consultation Report [PDF 15 pages/142KB]

Appendices A to O (263 pages) contain the following:

  1. Response Form
  2. Resident Anglers: Response Form closed question results
  3. Local business: Response Form closed question results
  4. Non-resident aliens: Response Form closed question results
  5. Non-resident Canadians: Response Form closed question results
  6. Guides: Response Form closed question results
  7. Resident Anglers: Response Form comments
  8. Local business: Response Form comments
  9. Non-resident aliens: Response Form comments
  10. Non-resident Canadians: Response Form comments
  11. Guides: Response Form comments
  12. Stakeholder meeting summaries
  13. Public Open House summaries
  14. Summaries of email submissions (residents)
  15. Summaries of email submissions (non-residents)

Download Appendices A to O for the Phase II Consultation Report [PDF 263 pages/7.14MB]

Appendices P to U (67 pages) contain the following information:

  1. Stakeholder email updates
  2. Newspaper advertising
  3. Synopsis of draft Angling Management Plan
  4. Display panels from Public Open Houses
  5. Presentation at Public Open Houses
  6. Media coverage

Download Appendices P to U for the Phase II Consultation Report [PDF 62 pages/4.68MB]


Phase II Consultation (October – November 2008)

Phase II Public Open Houses

Public Open House 5:00 – 9:00pm

Prince Rupert Lester Centre of the Arts Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
Kitimat Greek Orthodox Hall Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
Smithers Hudson Bay Lodge Monday, Nov. 17, 2008
Hazelton Skeena Lions Hall Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008
Houston Seniors’ Centre Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008

Public Open House 12:00 – 4:00pm

Terrace Best Western Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008
Download a poster to let your community know about the upcoming Public Open Houses.
[PDF 554KB]

Phase II Stakeholder meetings

There will be a series of sector-based stakeholder meetings held in the communities of Houston, Smithers, Hazelton, Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert in October and November 2008. It is important that people have an opportunity to meet in smaller groups of like-minded people so they feel comfortable asking questions and making comments. The following sector groups are proposed:

  • Resident anglers (with no economic interests related to steelhead)
  • Non-guiding local economy (accommodation and meal providers, bait and tackle stores, etc.)
  • Licenced guides
  • Elected officials
  • Business, economic development and tourism organizations
  • Non-residents

Phase II stakeholder meetings will occur in October and November 2008. Meetings will be held depending on local demand. If you would like to be involved in one of these meetings, please contact the facilitator.

There a variety of different ways to find out more about the draft plan and let us know what you think. These include:

  • Sectoral stakeholder meetings
  • Public Open Houses (advertised extensively in local papers and promoted through other media channels)
  • Online Response Form (also available at the public meetings)
  • This website
  • E-mail and telephone

Please note that the deadline for all comments on the draft Angling Management Plan, including completing the online Response Form, is November 30, 2008.

Phase II Community Engagement Timeline

The community engagement process for the Skeena Quality Waters Strategy involves stakeholder meetings and public open houses, with communications through this website, the media and targeted e-mails to those interested in staying informed of the process. If you want to be on our e-mail mailing list, contact Alan Dolan, Facilitator, Skeena Quality Waters Strategy. Response forms will also be available at the public open houses.

Oct.-Nov., 2008 Stakeholder Meetings Review draft Angling Management Plans
Nov. 13-19, 2008 Public Open Houses All six communities
January, 2009 Phase II Consultation report published Summary of public and stakeholder meetings
January 2009 Finalize draft AMPs Last Working Group meeting
Fall 2009 Review and approval of regulation changes Director of Fish and Wildlife
2010 Regulation changes implemented Reflected in Synopsis


Phase I Consultation (January – March 2008)

Phase I Consultation Report Available for Download

The Consultation Report, Phase 1 (January-March 2008), Skeena Quality Waters Strategy is now available for downloading [PDF 5.7MB]. (Please note this is a large file and not suitable for download if you do not have high speed Internet service.) The report, prepared by facilitator Alan Dolan, summarizes all the input received through stakeholder meetings, public meetings, Response Forms, and other sources. The report is an important source of information for members of the Working Groups, who are developing Angling Management Plans for priority waters in the Skeena River watershed. The report helps Working Groups understand the broad range of interests in Skeena River steelhead that participants in the consultation process have. It also identifies problems and solutions and provides water- and area-specific comments.

Phase I Community Engagement Timeline

Jan. 17-22, 2008 Stakeholder Meetings Informal sectoral meetings to identify problems and suggest solutions (Smithers, Houston, Hazelton, Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert)
Feb. 7-12, 2008 Stakeholder Meetings Same as Jan. 17-22, 2008
Public Meetings
Feb. 25, 2008 Houston – Seniors’ Centre
  3250 14th Street 		Open house: 5–7pm;
  public meeting 7–9pm
Feb. 26, 2008 Smithers – Hudson Bay Lodge
  3251 Highway 16 		Open house: 5–7pm;
  public meeting 7–9pm
Feb. 27, 2008 Hazelton – Kispiox Valley Hall
  Kispiox Road 		Open house: 5–7pm;
  public meeting 7–9pm
Feb. 28, 2008 Terrace – Coast Inn of the West
  4620 Lakelse Avenue 		Open house: 5–7pm;
  public meeting 7–9pm
Feb. 29, 2008 Kitimat – Kitimat River Lodge Community Centre
  654 Columbia Avenue 		Open house: 5–7pm;
  public meeting 7–9pm
March 1, 2008 Prince Rupert – Highliner Plaza
  815 1st Avenue West 		Open house: 12–2pm;
  public meeting 2–4pm
Mar. 31, 2008 Consultation report Summary of public and stakeholder meetings
April-Aug., 2008 Draft Angling Management Plans (AMPs) Developed by stakeholder-based Working Group