drhook
Active Member
Is anyone else getting concerned about the numbers of fish showing up this year? Although it appears that the inside is doing a little better than previous years, it seems like its shaping up to be a pretty awful year in general.
Also look at the continued restrictions placed on us like the closure of all chinook on the inside. Knee jerk reactions to a salmon fishery that looks to be ready to collapse.
Fifteen years ago there were fish taken regularly at Porlier, then that died. So we went to Juan de Fuca and thats been a former shadow of itself. So we go to Rennie and thats been scratchy at best so far this year.
What does the future hold for us as sporties? We're on the teminal end of the fishery after U.S. and Canadian commercials and we're the ones to get closed down when it looks like there are too few fish.
We spend more time flogging the water for fewer and fewer fish.
I love fishing but it seems like there isn't a reasonable expectation of catching fish any more and when you do DFO won't let you keep it anyway.
I know, I've been ranting. But if you look back a few years the spiraling decline of our fisheries is alarming!
Judging by the poor showing of winter springs this year in Juan de Fuca and Barkley Sound, the future looks grim.
Also look at the continued restrictions placed on us like the closure of all chinook on the inside. Knee jerk reactions to a salmon fishery that looks to be ready to collapse.
Fifteen years ago there were fish taken regularly at Porlier, then that died. So we went to Juan de Fuca and thats been a former shadow of itself. So we go to Rennie and thats been scratchy at best so far this year.
What does the future hold for us as sporties? We're on the teminal end of the fishery after U.S. and Canadian commercials and we're the ones to get closed down when it looks like there are too few fish.
We spend more time flogging the water for fewer and fewer fish.
I love fishing but it seems like there isn't a reasonable expectation of catching fish any more and when you do DFO won't let you keep it anyway.
I know, I've been ranting. But if you look back a few years the spiraling decline of our fisheries is alarming!
Judging by the poor showing of winter springs this year in Juan de Fuca and Barkley Sound, the future looks grim.