Birdsnest
Well-Known Member
Perhaps read post #53 slowly and repeatedly until it sinks in. I'm tired of this never ending assault on our wild salmon and your latest finger pointing that it's overfishing of Chinook and coho as the reason for the decline here in BC. The facts is your side lost this debate and the courts have spoken. Get to work and you just might find that there are many of us that will support your industry in getting off the migration routes and/or onto land. That's the path forward as post #53 points out.
added: Is see your using your other hand to point to Alaska. It's their fault. It seems it's always someone else's fault, never look at what your doing.
let me get this clear. When you post a graph and with an idea it is absolute and not to be challenged and not finger pointing but when I post a few graphs to show similar coronations with identical timelines its just me finger pointing. It must get tiring shifting the goal posts constantly. Really at one time you were all about the science and now that the issue has come to a boiling point where the scientists cant agree suddenly you're all about how strong and informed governments are and the court system is so amazing. Thats quite a shift in beliefs. Now you're finalizing your opinion as fact and very article you site doesn't say what you seem to think it is saying.
from your article that i had to read very slow, some terms:
should be shifted out of sensitive wild salmon migration pathways This is non descriptive.
His department’s scientists cannot agree whether open-net farms of Atlantic salmon pose health risks to wild Pacific salmon. As I noted earlier.
Mr. Wilkinson said he will err on the side of caution. Great! Nothing stoping this from happening to sport fishing when decisions are based on unquantifiable Maybe's.
That will put the federal government in compliance with a Federal Court decision that quashed a Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) policy allowing fish farms to transfer salmon to open-net fish farms without testing for piscine orthoreovirus, And these court decisions to not apply to hatchery releases?
We need to move to area-based management, which means we are actually thinking about siting of these facilities in areas where you don’t run into issues around migration pathways, areas where communities are actually interested in the economic development that comes through [fish farming] rather than in areas where those communities are very much opposed.” Just wow. This is almost saying two opposite things. I refer back to what are "sensitive areas"?
Indigenous opponents of open-net fish farms negotiated a pact with the B.C. government, which will shut down at least 10 farms over the span of four years in the Broughton Archipelago off the north coast of Vancouver Island. What then when first nations appose sport fishing? This is a slippery slope.
And now I will be accused of being a fear monger.
You'll have to take that to the government and the courts apparently lol.does PRV shrink the size of salmon???