As has been pointed out this ban on some rifles is unlikely to have any significant effect on crime, and is about politics, but that is the reality of policy making.
The politics of this are interesting. The liberals ran on a platform that promised this type of legislation, they are...
While DFO makes lots of poor decisions, it seems not having west coast stocks being raised in an area where straying to the Cowichan would be a distinct possibility is just common sense, particularly when it was at a time the Cowichan numbers were depressed. The same with taking stock from the...
Leafs don't need to play the regular season. Just start off with them playing a best of seven with Boston. Their season will just take seven games and end with a loss. Then everyone in Toronto can do other things Saturday night, and save the price of tickets to the AC center. Maybe use the...
Unfortunately with the latest court cases it is true that to stop the FN netting on the Fraser which is the main problem for these Fraser stocks, everyone else has to stop fishing them too. It sucks but it is the reality. The problem is enforcement , DFO will not take the necessary actions to...
Have you been to Sechelt lately? new developments all over the place, all those new residents drawing water from the inadequate reservoir that feeds Chapman creek. Unfortunately Its a casualty of increased population in the area and dry summers. The hatchery isn't being shut down by DFO, its...
Almost all of the hatchery clipped fish are of American origin. We mark (and tag) a very small proportion of fish. The marking strategies have been agreed within the salmon commission. I would have to think Canada instituting a policy that basically targets American origin fish would be an issue...
No, not at all. That fishery was kept open for years Despite the science telling them it was collapsing. The science in this case is that most stocks are not collapsing, that the Rec sector impact on the stocks of concern is low, and could have been made almost 0 with a marked restriction in the...
You better figure it out quickly. It's not that difficult. If you are fishing in the areas covered by this report( Vancouver, Howe sound or Sechelt) it's non retention of chinook.
According to the minister, the entire coast is closed to chinook retention for a few runs of early fraser chinook, so as to allow a ban on native netting of those stocks as it is the main source of mortality. Legal precedent has established that that native needs must be met first, so to some...
The conservatives under Sheer putting "significant budget" toward anything is unlikely. Hes pretty much already said it will be cut cut cut to balance the budget. While the liberals are bad, the increased funds being put towards salmon will likely disappear.
Just my opinion, but what this came down to was a recognition by the government that the ONLY way to have a positive impact on the early Fraser chinook runs was to shut down native fishing in the river, and the only way to do that based on recent court cases was to shut down all fishing on...
Whats Kadri being an idiot got to do with the Canuck's ineptitude? Kadri has two years in a row put his team in a bad position in the playoffs for reckless and dirty hits.
Canucks, like the Leafs, have been perpetually bad except for a few stretches for the last 5 decades mostly because of...
Its very early in the chinook season, but the Chinook counts are also up at the Willamette ladder, 119 have passed vs only 20 last year. The 10 year average is 135 by this time in April. An overview of the program and the Sea Lions trapped and euthanized by week is available at...
You can't be looking very hard, there are several threads already devoted to this, one is
Important Chinook Information - Feedback Required
It has option A and B, and the timing on the new regulations is: soon
Closing herring isn't just about food for chinook. Its about removing trillions of eggs, billions of larvae, and hundreds of millions of juvenile herring from the ecosystem, that a wide variety of organisms depend on. Removing a species instrumental in converting plankton to useable protein, to...
So the science WMY posted showing about 60% of the chinook diet is herring is nonsense? It shows they do feed on a variety of species, but preferentially feed on herring. Of particular importance are "young of the year and juvenile herring" which would be reduced substantially by a roe fishery.
I've watched that bit again, he seems to not believe overall that problem seals are not the issue, that there is enough overall predation to have an effect. Those seals you mention are also moving into the river for upstream migrating salmon in the summer, which he isn't addressing in his...
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