The focus in the coming year will be on supporting business planning as well as funding strategic workshops and conferences to explore new fisheries, value-added products and capacity building in fishing communities. It funds innovative and cost effective projects that contribute to the corporation's strategic goals. An example is an event to promote and sell surplus chum salmon that would not have been harvested otherwise. The project guaranteed fishing income and helped raise awareness about salmon and the salmon industry. This figure represents the total costs associated with these projects not only FsRBC funding.
Most projects receive funding from other sources as well.
These employment figures are estimates only, based on a set of assumptions regarding labour costs, wage rates, working hours per year and average project length. Once the project proponents have submitted their final reports, more accurate and standardized numbers will be available .