Development of a Draft First Nations Community Based Fishery Fisheries Monitoring and Reporting Framework - Consultant

Development of a Draft First Nations Community Based Fishery Fisheries Monitoring and Reporting Framework (Framework) in collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Coastal First Nations – Great Bear Initiative (CFN), and the signatory Nations of the Fisheries Resources Reconciliation Agreement as well as conducting a review of existing CBF or Rights Based Fisheries (RBF) and potentially overlapping commercial fisheries.This contract is the first step towards creating a First Nations Fishery Monitoring Framework that will standardize the development of fishery- or species-specific monitoring programs and advance the implementation of the FRRA community-based commercial fisheries in the Pacific Region. This work will provide guidance as to how First Nations fisheries monitoring programs could be implemented elsewhere as well.