Public Fishery Alliance speaks out on Chinook Closure and Action You can take!

[cohochinook]

Public Fishery Alliance speaks out on Chinook Closure and Action You can take:
https://www.facebook.com/108665030783122/posts/122998392683119/

Sustainable Chinook Retention for Proposal 2020-2021 April, May, June, July!

Sooke - Sidney - Sechelt - Victoria - Vancouver - Duncan - Nanaimo - Comox - Campbell River - Powell River - Pender Harbour- Port McNeill - Port Hardy - Port Renfrew

Look at the pictures included with this post to see what is proposed in your area. It is a very cautious approach and needs to be accepted.

Letters needed NOW!!! Deadline for emails/letters is April 20th/2020.

Please CC all 3 of these emails with your letter of support. There is a sample letter for reference.

min@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

DFO.PacificSalmonRMT-EGRSaumonduPacifique.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

info@sportfishing.bc.ca

The Sport Fishing Advisory Board has worked tirelessly to create, an extremely cautious, data supported proposal for chinook retention in very limited areas in Southern BC waters that are out of the migration corridors of Early Timed Fraser Chinook! Let's move forward with science, and not go backwards with politics. The Coast is broken and in trouble.

Time is running out for coastal communities, Bernadette Jordan, where are you? We need your leadership to save endangered chinook and we need you to support science based opportunities to give coastal communities a lifeline.

Here is the link to the full SFAB proposal

 

[scott craven]

Some area's have obviously been missed with MSF possibility's.
I would assume that is by design.

 

[agentaqua]

Here's another survey that maybe should get more than the typical urban marine mammal enthusiasts submissions:
https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/srkwandsalmon

 

[Gong Show]

Here's another survey that maybe should get more than the typical urban marine mammal enthusiasts submissions:
https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/srkwandsalmon

What a strange survey.
Lots of how do you identify yourself bs.
I really don't think the author understands that most recreational fishermen and hunters consider themselves conservationists.
What is being taught is Science classes these days?

 

[agentaqua]

bias, GS, bias

 

[ziggy]

Would you sell your soul for a Picasso? Or are you a worthless Philistine who has no appreciation for fine art and deserves a slow and painful death. I love those surveys.

 

[wildmanyeah]

The conservationists question are funny. Are you a hippy that likes paintings of the outdoors lol

Do you have shells in your bedroom

 

[Gong Show]

The conservationists question are funny. Are you a hippy that likes paintings of the outdoors lol

Do you have shells in your bedroom

Yeah, that one especially about the shells, feathers and other momentos in your room.
It's illegal to have an eagle feather in your possession, except if you're FN.
Does having momentos make you a conservationist, or a craven collector/harvester removing nature from its home to artificially naturalize your home?

 

[agentaqua]

Wow! Interesting how the topic of this survey has taken us into the land of the Philistines, sea shells, FNs & Picasso. Maybe it would be worthwhile to give the researcher and her sometime in the future publishing a different narrative and more comprehensive and accurate data? Sound like a good idea???

 

[wildmanyeah]

Wow! Interesting how the topic of this survey has taken us into the land of the Philistines, sea shells, FNs & Picasso. Maybe it would be worthwhile to give the researcher and her sometime in the future publishing a different narrative and more comprehensive and accurate data? Sound like a good idea???

R u saying we are not conservationists?

 

[ziggy]

Wow! Interesting how the topic of this survey has taken us into the land of the Philistines, sea shells, FNs & Picasso. Maybe it would be worthwhile to give the researcher and her sometime in the future publishing a different narrative and more comprehensive and accurate data? Sound like a good idea???

I used the final comment section for that, I think that was what it was there for? Funny thing about surveys though, they only tend to publish answers they agree with and never mention anyone questioning their mythology. I always believed you should ask a question and provide a means for a written answer. Ticking boxes are too easy to misrepresent, wouldn’t you agree? If not you must be a Picasso hating Philistine Agent, and somehow I had always thought you might be a patron of the arts lol.

 

[agentaqua]

Appreciate the humour guys. Didn't understand all of the references until I went through the survey too. Wow, eh? Ya I used the box @ the end to vent as well. Interesting that the survey is what one "feels" about the SRKW and not a peep about seals, neither.

 

[cohochinook]

Write your letters! Deadline is April 20th. Here's some tips on what to include in your letter:

https://www.facebook.com/108665030783122/posts/123404222642536/

By now you may have had a chance to review our post from yesterday re: the proposed chinook management plans presented by the Sport Fish Advisory Board to DFO for consideration – if you haven’t check out the link here!

https://mcusercontent.com/…/April_9th_FINAL_SFAB_2020_2021_…

We urge you to consider writing a letter to DFO and elected officials to express the importance of access and opportunity for you! Not sure what to write? Check out some tips from our friends Pacific Angler on what you might want to consider including in your letter.

Points to mention:
•You support the proposed Chinook Retention Proposals, be specific about your area in your response.
•You expect science-based management decisions that respect all Canadian’s rights to access water and associated stocks of non-concern.
•You spend a lot of money on your boat, moorage, gas, supplies and you support the local economy in doing so.
•You should have the right to harvest chinook stocks that are healthy, especially if stocks of concern are not encountered.
•You expect DFO to vigorously pursue real solutions to save endangered chinook stocks
-increasing patrols to remove illegal gill nets in the
Fraser River
-emergency hatchery production
-restoration of habitat
-removal of select seals that are devastating out
migrating chinook smolts
•Canada only clips 10% of our chinook and you support the mass marking of all hatchery chinook and quickly.
•If we clipped all of our chinook the science shows the mark rate in our local waters in April, May, June would be in excess of 50% and you support a hatchery retention fishery (marked selective fishery) in these months instead of a blanket closure.
•Remind them you are a taxpayer and a voter, you are not going away, this issue is not going away, and you will vote accordingly in the next election.

Send your letter to Fisheries Minister Jordan and the DFO Pacific Salmon Team

Minister Jordan: min@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
DFO’s Pacific Salmon Team: DFO.PacificSalmonRMT-EGRSaumonduPacifique.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Rebecca Reid, DFO Regional Director General: rebecca.reid@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Andrew Thomson, DFO Regional Director: andrew.thomson@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Terri Bonnet, DFO Area Director, Fraser & Interior: terri.bonnet@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Dean Allan, Resource Management Program Co-ordinator: dean.allan@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Jeff Grout, DFO Regional Resource Manager: jeff.grout@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Sport Fishing Institute of BC: info@sportfishing.bc.ca

Also consider sending to Fisheries Critics:
NDP: Gord Johns: gord.johns@parl.gc.ca
Conservative: Mel Arnold: Mel.arnold@parl.gc.ca

DFO is accepting feedback on these proposals now. We need letters of support by Monday, April 20th at midnight.

Remember - It doesn’t have to be long, one paragraph will do. I know you wrote letters last year, and we need you to do it again. This consistent pressure is the only means to change. We can’t do it without your letters. Let’s get our public fishery back! It is only through public pressure that DFO will adopt these proposals and transition into mass marking of all hatchery produced chinook.