OldBlackDog
Well-Known Member
Taken from part of the article,
Recent social media pronouncements concerning the allocation of salmon (chinook in this particular situation) originating from the Somass River watershed on the central west coast of Vancouver Island tell one side of a story. This has been the hallmark of mainstream media throughout the fisheries crises plainly evident on the Fraser system this year but also in other times and places throughout British Columbia. Have a look at the news piece by CHECK News on Sept 2 for some background.
[URL]https://www.cheknews.ca/one-alberni-valley-first-nation-says-its-being-left-out-of-chinook-fishery-697357/?fbclid=IwAR12ag8d4DmCKN86eLVokaNXLGqYI8UwDBuZGXl0rXpLlGKejNNGnz4f0zU
The comments of protest rally organizer Martin Watts at 1.20 – 1.28 are what catalyzed my remarks.
In part:
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“We have a right to this territory. We have a right to the fish in this water. That’s important to our people and it’s been important for centuries,”
Well Mr. Watts here are some facts you and a host of others, not the least of them the current cast of Department of Fisheries and Oceans “fisheries managers”, apparently aren’t aware of. Either that or all of you are wilfully blind. Take your choice.
The fish you claim rights to did not exist at a fraction of their recent abundance historically. Robertson Creek Hatchery was built after a failed attempt to produce pink salmon from spawning channels constructed in the late 1950s at what eventually became the hatchery. The spawning channel was officially opened by then Minister of Fisheries, J. Angus McLean on November 4, 1960. The conversion to a chinook (and coho and steelhead) production facility occurred over a number of years that followed. As memory serves me, the first significant returns of chinook didn’t occur until the early 1970s. As with all salmon hatcheries in this part of the world, the honeymoon was comparatively dramatic. However, the typical longer term pattern of declining survival from juvenile release to adult return prevailed there too. Returns of the present may seem dramatic to some but the cost and technical issues around sustaining those levels is disproportionately much greater today. The point is, the current chinook population is vastly in excess of anything that existed historically.
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http://steelheadvoices.com/?p=2179&fbclid=IwAR32iUHkt844u0kCywGS4mpgBaqLsVPMINVhg5oR5evBNPIDCWWvionHp_g
Recent social media pronouncements concerning the allocation of salmon (chinook in this particular situation) originating from the Somass River watershed on the central west coast of Vancouver Island tell one side of a story. This has been the hallmark of mainstream media throughout the fisheries crises plainly evident on the Fraser system this year but also in other times and places throughout British Columbia. Have a look at the news piece by CHECK News on Sept 2 for some background.
[URL]https://www.cheknews.ca/one-alberni-valley-first-nation-says-its-being-left-out-of-chinook-fishery-697357/?fbclid=IwAR12ag8d4DmCKN86eLVokaNXLGqYI8UwDBuZGXl0rXpLlGKejNNGnz4f0zU
The comments of protest rally organizer Martin Watts at 1.20 – 1.28 are what catalyzed my remarks.
In part:
.
“We have a right to this territory. We have a right to the fish in this water. That’s important to our people and it’s been important for centuries,”
Well Mr. Watts here are some facts you and a host of others, not the least of them the current cast of Department of Fisheries and Oceans “fisheries managers”, apparently aren’t aware of. Either that or all of you are wilfully blind. Take your choice.
The fish you claim rights to did not exist at a fraction of their recent abundance historically. Robertson Creek Hatchery was built after a failed attempt to produce pink salmon from spawning channels constructed in the late 1950s at what eventually became the hatchery. The spawning channel was officially opened by then Minister of Fisheries, J. Angus McLean on November 4, 1960. The conversion to a chinook (and coho and steelhead) production facility occurred over a number of years that followed. As memory serves me, the first significant returns of chinook didn’t occur until the early 1970s. As with all salmon hatcheries in this part of the world, the honeymoon was comparatively dramatic. However, the typical longer term pattern of declining survival from juvenile release to adult return prevailed there too. Returns of the present may seem dramatic to some but the cost and technical issues around sustaining those levels is disproportionately much greater today. The point is, the current chinook population is vastly in excess of anything that existed historically.
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http://steelheadvoices.com/?p=2179&fbclid=IwAR32iUHkt844u0kCywGS4mpgBaqLsVPMINVhg5oR5evBNPIDCWWvionHp_g