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VANCOUVER — B.C. sport fishermen are set to launch a complaint with federal authorities about the waste of hundreds of pink salmon at a First Nations fishery.
"I can't imagine wastage like that, it's unbelievable," said Brian Braidwood, president of the Steelhead Society of B.C. and manager of the Sea Run Fly and Tackle shop in Coquitlam, B.C.
Braidwood said he plans to submit photos taken by Randy Lee to the federal Fisheries Department.
Lee, a sport fisherman and retired captain with the North Vancouver, B.C., fire department, said he photographed the salmon in totes as well as in piles near Chilliwack, B.C., last week.
Lee said the eyes of the salmon had already been plucked out by birds.
"I don't care who is doing it — waste is waste. I stand up for what I saw. I'm only speaking the truth," he said.
While Lee was there, he said some aboriginal fishermen showed up to load some of the fish by hand into a large vessel, raising questions about whether such fish are fit for human consumption.
"If they were going to take that to market, some poor soul is going to buy an old rotten pink because it had been sitting in the sun," he said.
Grand Chief Ken Malloway of the Sto:lo Tribal Council said that he suspects the breakdown of a commercial buyer's skiff may have contributed to the fish not being picked up as planned. "I don't like it," he said. "I feel bad about fish going to waste."
Malloway said the fish and totes were all gone on Wednesday, one day after the photos were taken, and two days after the native fishery closed.
He doesn't know what ultimately happened to the fish, but said they might have been used as fertilizer.
Fishermen of all sectors this summer have caught about seven million pink salmon in the Fraser River system — the highest in about a decade — out of an estimated run of 17.5 million fish, a figure that is subject to further revision in the coming days.
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VANCOUVER — B.C. sport fishermen are set to launch a complaint with federal authorities about the waste of hundreds of pink salmon at a First Nations fishery.
"I can't imagine wastage like that, it's unbelievable," said Brian Braidwood, president of the Steelhead Society of B.C. and manager of the Sea Run Fly and Tackle shop in Coquitlam, B.C.
Braidwood said he plans to submit photos taken by Randy Lee to the federal Fisheries Department.
Lee, a sport fisherman and retired captain with the North Vancouver, B.C., fire department, said he photographed the salmon in totes as well as in piles near Chilliwack, B.C., last week.
Lee said the eyes of the salmon had already been plucked out by birds.
"I don't care who is doing it — waste is waste. I stand up for what I saw. I'm only speaking the truth," he said.
While Lee was there, he said some aboriginal fishermen showed up to load some of the fish by hand into a large vessel, raising questions about whether such fish are fit for human consumption.
"If they were going to take that to market, some poor soul is going to buy an old rotten pink because it had been sitting in the sun," he said.
Grand Chief Ken Malloway of the Sto:lo Tribal Council said that he suspects the breakdown of a commercial buyer's skiff may have contributed to the fish not being picked up as planned. "I don't like it," he said. "I feel bad about fish going to waste."
Malloway said the fish and totes were all gone on Wednesday, one day after the photos were taken, and two days after the native fishery closed.
He doesn't know what ultimately happened to the fish, but said they might have been used as fertilizer.
Fishermen of all sectors this summer have caught about seven million pink salmon in the Fraser River system — the highest in about a decade — out of an estimated run of 17.5 million fish, a figure that is subject to further revision in the coming days.
© Copyright (c) The Vancouver S
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/...irst+Nations/5461518/story.html#ixzz1Z8OME3ou