wildmanyeah
Crew Member
On to the next campaign now that they got chinook closed. Now they want C&R closed and hatcheries.....
"But MacDuffee said she wants to see even stronger restrictions. She hopes the DFO will halt fishing activity for all salmon species in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Strait of Georgia because even the catch and release of chinook can cause mortality.
At this point, the ailing southern resident orcas need all the help they can get, she said.
She is also calling for a decrease in the number of hatcheries — where juvenile salmon are raised by humans before being released into the wild — because human-reared salmon weaken the genetic pool of wild fish, she said."
https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2...tect-bcs-southern-resident-killer-whales.html
"But MacDuffee said she wants to see even stronger restrictions. She hopes the DFO will halt fishing activity for all salmon species in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Strait of Georgia because even the catch and release of chinook can cause mortality.
At this point, the ailing southern resident orcas need all the help they can get, she said.
She is also calling for a decrease in the number of hatcheries — where juvenile salmon are raised by humans before being released into the wild — because human-reared salmon weaken the genetic pool of wild fish, she said."
https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2...tect-bcs-southern-resident-killer-whales.html