Did any one see this last night on Check TV

[Derby]

Ottawa’s plan to limit Chinook Salmon fishing to help resident orcas gets mixed reaction
Posted By: Isabelle Raghemon: May 26, 2018In: CHEK, News
WATCH: Federal government announced this week it will be reducing the total fishery removals for Chinook salmon by up to 35 per cent. The plan is getting mixed reactions. Isabelle Raghem reports.








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Ottawa is getting mixed reactions to its plan to protect southern resident killer whales by putting limits on Chinook salmon fishing, the orcas' primary food.

"This notion that somehow you can simply say well if everyone stopped fishing, the whales would be better off or the fish would be better off simply makes no sense," says the Chair of the Sport Fishing Advisory Board, Gerry Kristianson.

Kristianson says while the group wants to be part of the solution, he fears the fishing community is being unfairly singled out.

"Whale watchers, commercial crab fishing, all these other things continue to take place... this will mean that in effect the recreational fishery is being sacrificed when others are not being asked to make the same contribution."

In the announcement, the Ministry of Fisheries says they will be implementing "a reduction in the total fishery removals of chinook salmon of 25-35 percent," and placing "fishery closures for recreational finfish and commercial salmon fisheries in portions of the Strait of Juan De Fuca and portions of the Gulf Islands."

But the director of the Watershed Salmon Watch Society says 35 per cent isn't going far enough.

"There's this huge array of threats so when we're confronting these threats we need to address the ones that we can and certainly reduce the over-fishing of these endangered Chinook population is something we can do right now," says Aaron Hill.

"[Chinook Salmon] are in severe crisis and so there really isn't any fishing to be done on them at all," he adds.

There still many questions surrounding this plan that have not yet been answered including how it will be implemented and where. Those are details expected to come out in the coming weeks.

The Sport Fishing Advisory Board would like to see the government work to produce more Chinook salmon rather than limiting anglers.

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[wildmanyeah]

But the director of the Watershed Salmon Watch Society says 35 per cent isn't going far enough.

"There's this huge array of threats so when we're confronting these threats we need to address the ones that we can and certainly reduce the over-fishing of these endangered Chinook population is something we can do right now," says Aaron Hill.

"[Chinook Salmon] are in severe crisis and so there really isn't any fishing to be done on them at all," he adds.

Is that not that same group that fiercely opposes fish farms? now they are going after recreational fishing wow. I bet some are rethinking their watershed salmon watch donations....

 

[california]

Thats always the dilemma, NGOs are universally opposed to net pen salmon farming and have the resources and communication savvy to get the message out which aligns with most sport fisherman's views. However they also often advocate for moratoriums or severe restrictions on sport and commercial fishing for chinook, which is an issue they are turning towards more than ever as a part of the SRKW debate.

 

[Derby]

Ya..I didn't like seeing Arron in there and as always with NGO did back up anything he said or offer really any solutions.....

 

[Powerset]

Ottawa’s plan to limit Chinook Salmon fishing to help resident orcas gets mixed reaction
Posted By: Isabelle Raghemon: May 26, 2018In: CHEK, News
WATCH: Federal government announced this week it will be reducing the total fishery removals for Chinook salmon by up to 35 per cent. The plan is getting mixed reactions. Isabelle Raghem reports.








<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div>
Ottawa is getting mixed reactions to its plan to protect southern resident killer whales by putting limits on Chinook salmon fishing, the orcas' primary food.

"This notion that somehow you can simply say well if everyone stopped fishing, the whales would be better off or the fish would be better off simply makes no sense," says the Chair of the Sport Fishing Advisory Board, Gerry Kristianson.

Kristianson says while the group wants to be part of the solution, he fears the fishing community is being unfairly singled out.

"Whale watchers, commercial crab fishing, all these other things continue to take place... this will mean that in effect the recreational fishery is being sacrificed when others are not being asked to make the same contribution."

In the announcement, the Ministry of Fisheries says they will be implementing "a reduction in the total fishery removals of chinook salmon of 25-35 percent," and placing "fishery closures for recreational finfish and commercial salmon fisheries in portions of the Strait of Juan De Fuca and portions of the Gulf Islands."

But the director of the Watershed Salmon Watch Society says 35 per cent isn't going far enough.

"There's this huge array of threats so when we're confronting these threats we need to address the ones that we can and certainly reduce the over-fishing of these endangered Chinook population is something we can do right now," says Aaron Hill.

"[Chinook Salmon] are in severe crisis and so there really isn't any fishing to be done on them at all," he adds.

There still many questions surrounding this plan that have not yet been answered including how it will be implemented and where. Those are details expected to come out in the coming weeks.

The Sport Fishing Advisory Board would like to see the government work to produce more Chinook salmon rather than limiting anglers.

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So limiting our take of Chinook Salmon is the governments answer? So governments that woefully underfunded the fishery, governments that issued hydro projects,mining profects,fish farm licenses,issued building permits to developers along pristine waterways that resulted in salmon habitat destruction,and governments that allowed decades of logging and clear cutting along the rivers and streams of BC, and governments that allowed year after year of commercial fishing as stocks continued to decline,are now going to blame recreational fishing as the cause of declining fish stocks? That’s really rich! This has been a complete failure of government management just like the East Coast fishery. Finally after decades of screaming for more funding because of declining salmon stocks are we finally getting noticed, and as a thank you, we’re going to get told we can’t fish anymore because we’ taken too many fish for too long!

 

[OldBlackDog]

So if you are the general public and you see and hear this comment, what is your opinion of the sportsfishing community?



This notion that somehow you can simply say well if everyone stopped fishing, the whales would be better off or the fish would be better off simply makes no sense," says the Chair of the Sport Fishing Advisory Board, Gerry Kristianson.

Kristianson says while the group wants to be part of the solution, he fears the fishing community is being unfairly singled out.

"Whale watchers, commercial crab fishing, all these other things continue to take place... this will mean that in effect the recreational fishery is being sacrificed when others are not being asked to make the same contribution."


Then you hear this :


But the director of the Watershed Salmon Watch Society says 35 per cent isn't going far enough.

"There's this huge array of threats so when we're confronting these threats we need to address the ones that we can and certainly reduce the over-fishing of these endangered Chinook population is something we can do right now," says Aaron Hill.

"[Chinook Salmon] are in severe crisis and so there really isn't any fishing to be done on them at all," he adds.


So, what do you think now?

 

[Whitebuck]

Good news!! The first couple of sockeye started to show up in the FN nets last night!! An 8 and a 10lb early endangered Stuart return!

 

[Dave]

Wow, that seems early, no pun intended.

 

[Derby]

right time of the year for Stuart fish

 

[Derby]

So if you are the general public and you see and hear this comment, what is your opinion of the sportsfishing community?



This notion that somehow you can simply say well if everyone stopped fishing, the whales would be better off or the fish would be better off simply makes no sense," says the Chair of the Sport Fishing Advisory Board, Gerry Kristianson.

Kristianson says while the group wants to be part of the solution, he fears the fishing community is being unfairly singled out.

"Whale watchers, commercial crab fishing, all these other things continue to take place... this will mean that in effect the recreational fishery is being sacrificed when others are not being asked to make the same contribution."


Then you hear this :


But the director of the Watershed Salmon Watch Society says 35 per cent isn't going far enough.

"There's this huge array of threats so when we're confronting these threats we need to address the ones that we can and certainly reduce the over-fishing of these endangered Chinook population is something we can do right now," says Aaron Hill.

"[Chinook Salmon] are in severe crisis and so there really isn't any fishing to be done on them at all," he adds.


So, what do you think now?

Believe or not we do have science behind our statement or Gerry would not have said it... but you already know that OldBlackDog

 

[OldBlackDog]

That is not the point.
This is not about science, this is about the public’s perception of what is said.

Believe or not we do have science behind our statement or Gerry would not have said it... but you already know that OldBlackDog

 

[Derby]

Okay....

 

[Reel Time]

What a mess. FIRST - Move the fish farms - too many baby smolts end up in the stomachs of farmed Atlantics. Too much lice on migration routes, too much disease tiring out Salmon from making it upstream to spawn. With warmer waters comes exponential disease and lice outbreaks as well. 2 cents.