Vancouver Sun continuing Sockeye stories.

[Aquaholic]

High hopes for Fraser River sockeye dashed by precipitous returns​

Returns for the fabled Adams River sockeye run will likely be just one-third of expected abundance, according to revised estimates of the Pacific Salmon Commission.

High hopes for Fraser River sockeye dashed by precipitous returns

Fraser River sockeye salmon returns will likely be just 56 per cent of the Pacific Salmon Commission's conservative pre-season forecast.

vancouversun.com

 

[Ringo]

"This is something that I sort of anticipated, but hoped would never come to pass,” said Greg Taylor, a fisheries adviser for conservation group the Watershed Watch Salmon Society."

Well, Vancouver Sun is just becoming part of the ENGO's effort to spread misinformation and lies. Is Greg Taylor the most credible source n the topic to be interviewed? All he does is masking the scientific facts, giving biased info and hiding DFO's mismanagement of the run. Someone should write to Vancouver Sun and ask for clarification/correction.

 

[Aquaholic]

When Derek Penner was writing the real estate columns in the Vancouver Sun years ago, he was so bad, misinformed, and negative that all of our offices stopped their subscriptions to the paper. However, like many, his column about three weeks ago was suggesting that there were enough numbers in the tests at that time that there would be an opening this year.

 

[Ringo]

This guy is full of BS. No mention of the in-river nets, overharvesting the previous major run and more importantly, DFO's sh*ty job of forecasting the runsize. Just look at this one:

"At this point, granted it’s still very early, but it looks like the low returns are definitely impacted by what’s happening in the river for those systems,” Michielsens said.
To Taylor, the troubled Shuswap and Thompson returns speak to “real challenges in the Fraser watershed in terms of habitat and climate change.”
“We’ve really overdeveloped that whole area, we’ve got forest fires, all of it compromising the freshwater habitat and it’s really, really worrisome,” Taylor said.

 

[wildmanyeah]

This guy is full of BS. No mention of the in-river nets, overharvesting the previous major run and more importantly, DFO's sh*ty job of forecasting the runsize. Just look at this one:

"At this point, granted it’s still very early, but it looks like the low returns are definitely impacted by what’s happening in the river for those systems,” Michielsens said.
To Taylor, the troubled Shuswap and Thompson returns speak to “real challenges in the Fraser watershed in terms of habitat and climate change.”
“We’ve really overdeveloped that whole area, we’ve got forest fires, all of it compromising the freshwater habitat and it’s really, really worrisome,” Taylor said.

The adams was over harvested in 2018, The gulf troll over estimated how many was in the gulf, then the area B bag fleet cleaned up, In river they had First nations economic opens, Then they nettered more all the way through the canyon (illegal and legal), Then the bag fleeted them in kamloops lake.

theee end