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Ya Right!.............
Do you have ideas to provide a viable solution that can help improve this issue?
I just watched Big Blue the rebirth of Monteray Bay. It shows how nature can rebuild itself if we really want it to. Amazing to see the huge schools of smelt and it just makes me wonder if we actually let our herring stocks rebuild to their full potential what could occur in the southern gulf.
Do you have ideas to provide a viable solution that can help improve this issue?
Seems there are only two options
1) increase the stock
2) decrease the harvest
Both have potential downfalls in addition to possible upsides. You have to wonder how healthy "salmon ranching" is long term. Would the closing of the spring fishery kill the guides and resorts?
Perhaps closing or limiting herring fishery would be a good start, until we can choose a more holistic approach, but I don't think it alone will solve the problem. On a lighter note; too bad they can't change their diet to include seals. Plenty of them!
Seems there are only two options
1) increase the stock
2) decrease the harvest
Both have potential downfalls in addition to possible upsides. You have to wonder how healthy "salmon ranching" is long term. Would the closing of the spring fishery kill the guides and resorts?
Perhaps closing or limiting herring fishery would be a good start, until we can choose a more holistic approach, but I don't think it alone will solve the problem. On a lighter note; too bad they can't change their diet to include seals. Plenty of them!
Here is just a few sources from a variety of organizations that confirm that the SRKW are indeed endangered. The fact that a few orcas have been born and the Chinook returns have been good this year does not mean that they are no longer endangered now or in the foreseeable future.
http://conservationbiology.uw.edu/research-programs/killer-whales/
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/whales/killer-whale.html
http://whalemuseum.org/pages/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-southern-resident-endangered-orcas
http://www.westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov/protected_species/marine_mammals/killer_whale/esa_status.html
http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/species/speciesDetails_e.cfm?sid=699
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/species-especes/killerWhalesouth-PAC-NE-epaulardsud-eng.htm
http://www2.epa.gov/salish-sea/southern-resident-killer-whales
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/jf14/orca-threatened-species.asp
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/31/puget-sound-endangered-killer-whales-decline
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...f-protection-resident-orcas-still-in-trouble/
http://www.whaleresearch.com/#!orca-population/cto2
http://www.oceandiscovery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/HSP-Species-at-Risk-Brochure-no_coupon.pdf
http://www.vancouversun.com/technol...found+dead+Strait+Georgia/10441674/story.html
Just so it,s clear.Seems there are only two options
1) increase the stock
2) decrease the harvest
Both have potential downfalls in addition to possible upsides. You have to wonder how healthy "salmon ranching" is long term. Would the closing of the spring fishery kill the guides and resorts?
Perhaps closing or limiting herring fishery would be a good start, until we can choose a more holistic approach, but I don't think it alone will solve the problem. On a lighter note; too bad they can't change their diet to include seals. Plenty of them!