finaddict
Well-Known Member
Most of the "rational" is comical at best. Lobbying for the complete decimation of any stocks at risk. Certainly they are doing their best to jockey for position for the peak Adam's run Year.......
An example:
Interior Fraser Steelhead – SPABC is very concerned with the proposed rolling window closure for “protection” of interior Fraser steelhead. First the assessment of the conservation status of Interior Fraser steelhead population undertaken by COSEWIC is flawed and does not properly assess the status and issues surrounding a “species at risk”. Steelhead and rainbow trout are part of the same population and the status and threats to steelhead cannot be assessed separately. There is no definitive analysis that the “species” or actual “populations” are at risk.
Another example:
Cultus Sockeye – SPABC recommends that Cultus Lake sockeye be managed simply as part of the Late Run aggregate with no differential to provide added protection. All evidence is that reduced exploitation rates below the late run aggregate rate (even as far as zero) cannot maintain or rebuild Cultus sockeye. Without significantly increased survival rates Cultus will not be maintained or rebuilt. Very drastic measures to improve the freshwater habitat are necessary and there is no indication that governments are prepared to undertake these extremely costly measures.
When there are potentially hundreds of thousands to millions of co-migrating Summer and Late Run sockeye available to harvest in 2018, it makes no sense to impose those millions of dollars in foregone income and loss of First Nations FSC harvest to ensure a handful of Cultus sockeye make it to an inhospitable lake habitat.
An example:
Interior Fraser Steelhead – SPABC is very concerned with the proposed rolling window closure for “protection” of interior Fraser steelhead. First the assessment of the conservation status of Interior Fraser steelhead population undertaken by COSEWIC is flawed and does not properly assess the status and issues surrounding a “species at risk”. Steelhead and rainbow trout are part of the same population and the status and threats to steelhead cannot be assessed separately. There is no definitive analysis that the “species” or actual “populations” are at risk.
Another example:
Cultus Sockeye – SPABC recommends that Cultus Lake sockeye be managed simply as part of the Late Run aggregate with no differential to provide added protection. All evidence is that reduced exploitation rates below the late run aggregate rate (even as far as zero) cannot maintain or rebuild Cultus sockeye. Without significantly increased survival rates Cultus will not be maintained or rebuilt. Very drastic measures to improve the freshwater habitat are necessary and there is no indication that governments are prepared to undertake these extremely costly measures.
When there are potentially hundreds of thousands to millions of co-migrating Summer and Late Run sockeye available to harvest in 2018, it makes no sense to impose those millions of dollars in foregone income and loss of First Nations FSC harvest to ensure a handful of Cultus sockeye make it to an inhospitable lake habitat.
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