Chasin' Dreams
Well-Known Member
There's been a lot of us upset and venting about the new Spring Salmon regs and the continued disappointing mismanagement of our resources by DFO and their obviously biased coalition they have formed with the Natives in BC.
I for one am fed up with the discrimination the government, DFO, and the Natives are showing to the rest of us who are all part of sharing and protecting this resource.
It is my believe that the government and DFO have put such heavy restrictions on the commercial fishermen and the sportsfishermen so that they can let the Fraser River get overloaded with Springs so that the Natives can completely annihilate them to decimated numbers. I believe this is completely arbitrary and discriminatory to all the other sectors that have interests in these fish.
It is also my belief that DFO has been purposely meeting with other interested parties of this resource to gather information, statistics, etc to use that info to take it to the Natives (who have been lobbying them hard) to use that info to go ahead with these regulations that are ONLY targeted to negatively affect the commercial and sportfishermen of our Province; while the Natives continue to see all of the benefits from them.
This has been the reason I have stayed away from any meetings, info gathering/sharing etc by sportfishing and commercial fishing organizations whom I know have been sharing all of that info with DFO. Yes I know and understand these organizations have good intentions and have hoped that the work they have been doing would help us in the end but it has not been the believe of mine which sadly comes from my negative opinion and outlook about DFO and the government that was driven into me by my own very negative experiences when trying to help politically, personally, and financially in past years.
So enough is enough and I hope that we can try to shed some light what is going to go on on the Fraser River this Summer with regards to the Natives and our Spring Salmon and DFO's mismanagement.
I am volunteering to use my drone and whatever resources I can muster from friends, family etc to get some video footage of the blood bath on the Fraser River this Summer. I do have some friends with jet boats that I will go to to ask for help volunteering and I have a friend with a small media business, but I am posting this hear to also ask for help from other concerned folks who want to do something about this.
We will need people that are good with video editing, people that are level headed and mature enough to stay away from conflict with the parties involved. This HAS TO BE done in a way that our goals are met to gather information and video footage to show the rest of the world what is really going on here. We will need people that may have contacts with the major media outlets and ways of getting this information onto social media in ways that it is monitored by us so that it is not lead down a darker path where everything will be removed. Yes we are all very upset but we have to do this the right way so that it is the resource that we are working for, not our egos. We will also need people who may have some inside information with regards to when and where the Natives will be fishing etc. I do have some of that info but as much as possible the better.
I will be away for a few days on a fishing trip but I will have email/wifi so feel free to send me messages with your contact information. We can then communicate through emails, phone calls etc.
Please refrain from any racist comments or sharing thoughts of physical harm, vandalism etc. We are going to keep this professional and organized.
Please share your thoughts, ideas etc on this thread but if something is better kept to a personal information level then message me and we can communicate by email/phone calls.
I for one am fed up with the discrimination the government, DFO, and the Natives are showing to the rest of us who are all part of sharing and protecting this resource.
It is my believe that the government and DFO have put such heavy restrictions on the commercial fishermen and the sportsfishermen so that they can let the Fraser River get overloaded with Springs so that the Natives can completely annihilate them to decimated numbers. I believe this is completely arbitrary and discriminatory to all the other sectors that have interests in these fish.
It is also my belief that DFO has been purposely meeting with other interested parties of this resource to gather information, statistics, etc to use that info to take it to the Natives (who have been lobbying them hard) to use that info to go ahead with these regulations that are ONLY targeted to negatively affect the commercial and sportfishermen of our Province; while the Natives continue to see all of the benefits from them.
This has been the reason I have stayed away from any meetings, info gathering/sharing etc by sportfishing and commercial fishing organizations whom I know have been sharing all of that info with DFO. Yes I know and understand these organizations have good intentions and have hoped that the work they have been doing would help us in the end but it has not been the believe of mine which sadly comes from my negative opinion and outlook about DFO and the government that was driven into me by my own very negative experiences when trying to help politically, personally, and financially in past years.
So enough is enough and I hope that we can try to shed some light what is going to go on on the Fraser River this Summer with regards to the Natives and our Spring Salmon and DFO's mismanagement.
I am volunteering to use my drone and whatever resources I can muster from friends, family etc to get some video footage of the blood bath on the Fraser River this Summer. I do have some friends with jet boats that I will go to to ask for help volunteering and I have a friend with a small media business, but I am posting this hear to also ask for help from other concerned folks who want to do something about this.
We will need people that are good with video editing, people that are level headed and mature enough to stay away from conflict with the parties involved. This HAS TO BE done in a way that our goals are met to gather information and video footage to show the rest of the world what is really going on here. We will need people that may have contacts with the major media outlets and ways of getting this information onto social media in ways that it is monitored by us so that it is not lead down a darker path where everything will be removed. Yes we are all very upset but we have to do this the right way so that it is the resource that we are working for, not our egos. We will also need people who may have some inside information with regards to when and where the Natives will be fishing etc. I do have some of that info but as much as possible the better.
I will be away for a few days on a fishing trip but I will have email/wifi so feel free to send me messages with your contact information. We can then communicate through emails, phone calls etc.
Please refrain from any racist comments or sharing thoughts of physical harm, vandalism etc. We are going to keep this professional and organized.
Please share your thoughts, ideas etc on this thread but if something is better kept to a personal information level then message me and we can communicate by email/phone calls.
