searun
Well-Known Member
The Election is here - now is time for each of us in the various fishery stakeholder sectors to hold candidates accountable. Each one of us can ask the candidates when they visit to campaign at your door or at local all candidates meetings some pointed tough questions. Our sector needs to help make investing in our fishery, creating real abundance a top political priority....that comes from asking candidates difficult questions.
The SFI recently published a set of excellent questions - please take the time to hold your local candidates accountable to stand up for our fishery, protect real western Canadian jobs and communities.
The election is a time where each of us can stand up for our fishery and demand meaningful investment in making positive change.
The Federal Election
The next Federal election will be fast upon us and it is safe to say that this is likely to be one of the most important elections in decades for our fishery. Regardless of who or which party is elected, ensuring that the government understands, supports and is willing to invest in the future of our fishery and the resources that it depends upon has never been more important.
Healthy, abundant salmon stocks and the fisheries they support are critically important to many British Columbians. With over 300,000 individuals who purchase recreational fishing licenses each year, the effects, impacts and benefits to small communities and businesses from access to sustainable resources is socially and economically vital to BC. We believe that our elected officials need to recognize and support initiatives to maintain and, where necessary and possible, rebuild salmon populations in order to avoid a repeat of the harmful and, in many cases, unnecessary restrictions that were imposed on fisheries on the South Coast in 2019.
Here are some key points that every potential MP should be asked to address and provide a position for. Ask your local candidates;
Do you and your party:
The SFI recently published a set of excellent questions - please take the time to hold your local candidates accountable to stand up for our fishery, protect real western Canadian jobs and communities.
The election is a time where each of us can stand up for our fishery and demand meaningful investment in making positive change.
The Federal Election
The next Federal election will be fast upon us and it is safe to say that this is likely to be one of the most important elections in decades for our fishery. Regardless of who or which party is elected, ensuring that the government understands, supports and is willing to invest in the future of our fishery and the resources that it depends upon has never been more important.
Healthy, abundant salmon stocks and the fisheries they support are critically important to many British Columbians. With over 300,000 individuals who purchase recreational fishing licenses each year, the effects, impacts and benefits to small communities and businesses from access to sustainable resources is socially and economically vital to BC. We believe that our elected officials need to recognize and support initiatives to maintain and, where necessary and possible, rebuild salmon populations in order to avoid a repeat of the harmful and, in many cases, unnecessary restrictions that were imposed on fisheries on the South Coast in 2019.
Here are some key points that every potential MP should be asked to address and provide a position for. Ask your local candidates;
Do you and your party:
- Support the use of hatchery-based enhancement to either maintain or rebuild salmon populations at a level that will support vibrant, healthy, sustainable fisheries?
- Support the use of Mass Marking and Mark Selective Fisheries as a way to provide access to abundant stocks of hatchery produced salmon and avoid wild stocks of concern?
- Support the need for government to enforce existing laws and regulations that protect salmon habitat, and invest in habitat rehabilitation initiatives to promote long term sustainability?
- Support the idea of science-based predator control in specific areas to address the unprecedented impacts that predators are incurring on salmon stocks?
- Understand the importance of the public fishery to your riding, and the impact that a lack of certainty and stability in regulations and access has on businesses and citizens who either support or participate in the fishery?
- Understand the impact that open net pen salmon farming has on wild salmon, and support a transition to mandatory closed containment salmon farming by 2025? (for more detail please click here)
- Understand that fishery resources are a common property resource, managed by the Federal Government at tax-payers expense for the benefit of all Canadians, and are willing to support the idea that all Canadians should be able to benefit from those resources in a meaningful way?
