Quickly? That's a joke right? Thompson River has been in the 18-20C range for nearly two-weeks, Fraser has rarely exceeded 20C all summer (though the PSC likes to report the instantaneous high in their reports, rather than the 24-hr or 7-day mean temp …) and yet they just opened both. Meanwhile the South Thompson continues to range between 20C as a low to 23C as a high and that fishery has been open for over a week. Chilliwack/Vedder has been experiencing historic low flows and high temps all season and yet was exempt from the Lower Fraser Region closures. Clearly DFO has no framework for how environmental flow and temp factors into fishery openings.
The flossing impact on low returns of sockeye is also a joke. This is the same Department that last year extended the snag fishery for Adams Sockeye on the Thompson well into the Thompson Steelhead and Interior Fraser Coho conservation windows - stocks that don't number in the 100's of thousands and millions, as the sockeye stocks passing through right now do, but rather 600 or so fish for the Thompson Steelhead run last year and some of the Interior Coho stocks being far lower than that. To justify the sockeye harvest commercially and recreationally DFO more than doubled the allowable exploitation of COSEWIC listed coho, an exploitation rate they promised to stick to in order to avoid listing these coho as a SARA protected species, and then blew that inflated exploitation rate out of the water with their continued extended harvest season.
DFO, putting the "Mis-" in "Management"!!
Cheers!
Ukee