Table 6 Breakdown of numbers of wild chum and pink salmon by DFO zone, with a summary of their mean sizes over the months March to June.

From: Sea lice infestation dataset for wild and farmed salmon populations on the Pacific coast of Canada (2001–2023)

DFO Zone

Number of fish sampled

Mean length of fish (mm)

Mean weight of fish (g)

March

April

May

June

Mar

Apr

May

June

Mar

Apr

May

June

Chum

14,561

66,031

78,691

24,667

2.3

2,394

12,445

8,918

504

37.8

41.4

48.0

56.1

0.5

0.7

1.1

2.1

2.4

7,592

15,066

10,258

736

38.4

39.9

44.0

55.7

0.5

0.7

1.0

2.4

3.1

581

2,546

1,396

35.2

37.4

40.5

0.5

0.7

0.9

3.2

2,477

2,951

1,455

38.6

56.5

104

0.6

2.8

11.8

3.3

3,992

31,035

48,906

19,803

37.5

42.3

53.3

75.8

0.5

0.8

2.5

7.2

3.4

2

600

538

129

44.4

54.2

55.9

1.0

2.7

2.3

3.5

1,862

5,724

2,040

41.3

45.1

55.5

0.8

1.1

2.2

Pink*

4,785

41,814

65,309

35,043

        

3.1

144

1,222

720

31.6

36.4

40.6

0.4

0.6

0.9

3.2

2,029

2,004

1,087

33.9

52.7

86.1

0.4

2.1

6.8

3.3

4,630

34,044

49,986

28,198

32.2

37.7

51.4

71.8

0.3

0.5

1.9

4.8

3.4

11

2,307

2,019

403

31.3

35.8

48.8

64.7

0.3

0.5

1.4

3.7

3.5

2,212

10,580

5,355

38.4

44.3

56.9

0.6

1.2

2.6

  1. *In Zones 2.3 and 2.4, over all years, only a total of 18 pink salmon were recorded, as such these are not reported in this table.