Charter Tofino
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Because the seines have not found the quality they want and it’s getting late.
Is that due to the Herring being too small or roe quality?
Because the seines have not found the quality they want and it’s getting late.
Gill net takes the best quality 5 to 8 year olds and normally a ratio of 2 to 1 Females to males.Is that due to the Herring being too small or roe quality?
Quality. I hear they are trying again today.Is that due to the Herring being too small or roe quality?
Yet the yearly limit on chinook is still 30. Maybe start looking at your own fishery.And salmon, and rockfish, and lings, and well, pretty much anything that eats herring eggs, larvae, juveniles or adults, or eats anything that depends on the herring (SRKW)!
Yet the yearly limit on chinook is still 30. Maybe start looking at your own fishery.
There are many contributors to the decline of Chinook salmon. What is being looked at harder than sport fishing right now with closure zones, likely reductions in limits and fishing opportunities? So with more sport fishing reductions coming, its appropriate also to look at a rape and pillage fishery removing tens of millions of fish that the rest of the ecosystem depends on right before they spawn. To top it off 90%+ of the biomass goes to West Coast reduction to make animal and fish feed, and the rest is sold as supermarket sushi in Japan. Absolutely mindless destruction of the ecosystem and waste for comparable little money. At least sport fishing generates significant economic benefits spread out among many individuals coast wide, not just a few wealthy license holders and processors.
What are the benefits exactly for coastal communities? Most of the boats aren't from the area where the herring are extracted from as far as i can see.Seems like you are not open minded enough to understand or even consider understanding how commercial fisheries work, the science used to set the quotas, how the wealth is distributed or how it benefits coastal communities. Mindless destruction of an ecosystem is again laughable. You almost sound like one of those paid American protesters trying to destroy BC resource industries to further American interests.
As for what the sportsfish sector generates that is a different discussion for a different thread.
Is it just your opinion that there is far more than 120,000 tons in the gulf or can you point us to some posted data to check out. Where are the facts to support a value far higher than $500.00 per ton so we can reference? Thanks for the info and I would like to point out in California they cap the take at up to 5% of the spawners based on data and precautionary principle.
Thats why we need proportional representation at the ballot box so the focus will shift to what is right for the voters because as far as their political business goes thats who they are supposed to work for.Ask anyone that has worked for DFO, They will tell you they spent 35 years screaming at Ottawa to close fisheries or to amend the fisheries act ororor..... politicians move slow and it's never been good public policy to hurt businesses. The simple fact of the matter is Conservation is bad for business.
You sound just like an American alt right wing nut trying to deflect any criticism as being "paid protestors", right out of the NRA/republican playbook last used against the Florida students. If some rich American wants to pay me for protesting I'd gladly take it, unfortunately its not so, I'm just an unpaid Canadian concerned about the rape of the resource.You almost sound like one of those paid American protesters trying to destroy BC resource industries to further American interests.
What are the benefits exactly for coastal communities? Most of the boats aren't from the area where the herring are extracted from as far as i can see.
As far as the science to set quotas all i see is a fail, the stocks are a shadow of what they used to be.
Has the disappearance of Pilchards in recent years forced some species to rely more on herring? If so, do we need to adjust harvest rates to reflect this?
Kelly. Another question missed is how much has natural environmental conditions been effecting the populations? When considering that all species of starfish coast wide died off recently without any commercial harvesting why would we consider herring stocks to not be effected in a similar way. I have not caught a sun star in four years. Tube snouts are another local species that totally crashed lately. Their populations are not monitored or considered but they can still be an indicator of ecological health.
I think the point is if the overall ecological health of the Straight is in decline (for whatever reason), does it make sense to keep fishing a keystone species when there is in fact very little demand for herring and the repercussions are spread throughout a food chain that we are trying to preserve?