SpringVelocity
Crew Member
Very true.
Possible closures to fishing, MPA’s
- Thread starter OldBlackDog
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Very true.
ziggy
Well-Known Member
When did the Pender residents ask for the SRKW sanctuary? I don’t live there but if I recall correctly, one poster who does, reported a meeting was held and it was opposed? Is there other verified info?
Derby
Crew Member
This is not accurate. The SFI did submit a request provisionally and on behalf of the SFAB last year. Before the SFI applied on behalf of the SFAB, it was discussed at SFAB meetings in the fall of 2018. The SFAB can’t seek or hold funding so it was suggested that the SFI could apply and hold funds. To date very little of that funding has been accessed, the SFI is not holding it. The SFAB in the North organized some community meetings to gather feedback on the MPA draft materials in April and submitted reimbursement forms against the fund then.
FYI, members of the MPA team are planning to provide a MPA status update at the next SFAB south coast meeting.
OldBlackDog
Well-Known Member
Great that they are planning to meet with the South Coast.
They might be able to give the breakdown of the dollars allocated to the groups?
Sure appears the Commercials are getting a fair amount?
Be interesting to see a financial breakdown.
Also to see the minutes from meetings held.
This is just a warm up for the South Coast closures.
They might be able to give the breakdown of the dollars allocated to the groups?
Sure appears the Commercials are getting a fair amount?
Be interesting to see a financial breakdown.
Also to see the minutes from meetings held.
This is just a warm up for the South Coast closures.
searun
Well-Known Member
The MPA Team is presenting at South Coast Meeting, you are welcome to attend. It is an open to the public meeting. MPA's will be on agenda for Saturday Nov 23. Meeting is at the Vancouver Island Convention Center in Nanaimo. If you have questions for the MPA team, this would be an opportunity to listen to the presentation.
SerengetiGuide
Well-Known Member
Where would one find the agenda for the whole weekend?
Cuba Libre
Well-Known Member
Hey Derby-- Please make sure the SFAC's get a proper notice in a timely manner. Tanks....
OldBlackDog
Well-Known Member
Very interesting that they are coming to the South Board Meeting.
One would think that they would be addressing the North Board and the Main Board?
Why the South Board now?
One would think that they would be addressing the North Board and the Main Board?
Why the South Board now?
OldBlackDog
Well-Known Member
From Facebook.
(2) Facebook
The Marine Planning Team (MPT - Brian Mose, Grant Dovey, Mike Atkins and Bruce Turris) would like to provide another update to commercial fishing industry members regarding our ongoing efforts to develop a coordinated meaningful response to the Northern Shelf Bioregion MPA Network draft scenario released by the NSB Partners (DFO, the Provincial Government and 16 First Nations).
From late September through October we met with commercial fishery members from all of the shellfish, groundfish, salmon, herring and tuna fisheries to develop initial fishery specific layers for each of the 24 commercial fisheries that occur in the Northern Shelf Bioregion. During the first week of November we met with large groups of fishermen across multiple fisheries to combine individual fishery layers and develop overlay maps for:
1. All salmon & herring fisheries, 2. All shellfish fisheries, and 3. All groundfish and tuna fisheries.
During the second week of November, the MPT held meetings to further merge the layers developed in the first week. On November 13 we met with 28 groundfish, tuna, and salmon troll fishermen to develop an "Offshore" layer. On November 14 we met with 40 shellfish, herring and salmon seine and gillnet fishermen to develop an "Inshore" layer. During both of these merging meetings work was also done to adjust boundaries or zoning designations, or create new zones within the respective "Offshore" and "Inshore" areas, to capture important ecological targets. Each day of meetings with industry captures an enormous amount of knowledge and consensus advice that results in up to 20 additional hours of work by the MPT (specifically Grant and Mike) to ensure all of the advice (boundary lines, designations, and associated rationale and implications) received from the fishermen at each meeting is incorporated properly into the Seasketch mapping program. This work will be done early this week, so that we can run updated reports and determine how well each of the merged "Offshore" and "Inshore" maps score against the ecological targets and compare to the NSB MPA Network draft scenario provided by the Partners (DFO, Province and 16 First Nations).
To date we have drawn upon extremely valuable knowledge and experience from an amazing reservoir of commercial fishery participants. Over the next two weeks the MPT will also be holding meetings in Alert Bay, and possibly Port Hardy, with central coast and Northern Vancouver Island First Nations commercial fishing interests to seek their input on the "Offshore" and "Inshore" layers.
On November 12, the MPT met with environmental organizations (David Suzuki Foundation, World Wildlife Fund, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Living Oceans Society, and Nature Fund) to provide them with an update on the MPT process and to discuss work being undertaken by them and how it may be beneficial to the commercial industry efforts. The MPT is scheduled to meet again with
the ENGOs on November 21. The MPT also provided an update to 31 members of MPATT (MPA Technical Team) and the Partners on November 12 and are scheduled to do the same on November 20.
We have scheduled meetings for December 3, 4, and 5 at the Coast Bastion Hotel in Nanaimo with commercial fishing representatives from all of the shellfish, groundfish, tuna, herring and salmon fisheries to merge the "Offshore" and "Inshore" layers into a singular Commercial Fishery Map. This map will balance the need for important fishing access with protection of valuable ecological and cultural targets and will be the product of the collective knowledge and expertise of hundreds of commercial fishermen.
Since September 25 we have held 24 commercial fishing industry meetings with a registered attendance of 372 participants representing valuable input from 216 separate individuals. It is crucial that we continue to have substantial and comprehensive attendance and participation by experienced and knowledgeable fishermen at the upcoming meetings on December 3, 4 and 5 to ensure that each fisheries interests are being properly represented. Please share this with your fishery representatives. The map coming out of the meetings on December 3, 4 and 5 will be reviewed by commercial industry members at general industry meetings in the first two weeks of January (see attached schedule of meetings). As we have stated at the meetings, the final map will be presented to the Partners as a complete package not to be cherry picked or dissected because it represents hundreds of complex integrated compromises and agreements between fishing sectors and regions such that the change of one boundary and/or management designation affects many other boundaries and/or designations and, as such, the overall balance achieved by hundreds of commercial fishing industry participants. It is the MPT's stated position that any suggested or requested changes by the Partners will need to be brought back to the industry for their consideration and advice.
The MPT wishes to express our continued thanks and appreciation to all the individuals that have taken the time to attend these meetings and provide valuable input. We are developing a commercial fishing industry response and your participation is essential to the success of this initiative. Please don't hesitate to contact any one of the MPT members identified below if you have any questions or require additional information.
Brian Mose: bmose@uniserve.com
Grant Dovey: gdoveyoffice@shaw.ca
Mike Atkins: mike@tridentbc.ca
Bruce Turris: bruceturris@shaw.ca
(2) Facebook
The Marine Planning Team (MPT - Brian Mose, Grant Dovey, Mike Atkins and Bruce Turris) would like to provide another update to commercial fishing industry members regarding our ongoing efforts to develop a coordinated meaningful response to the Northern Shelf Bioregion MPA Network draft scenario released by the NSB Partners (DFO, the Provincial Government and 16 First Nations).
From late September through October we met with commercial fishery members from all of the shellfish, groundfish, salmon, herring and tuna fisheries to develop initial fishery specific layers for each of the 24 commercial fisheries that occur in the Northern Shelf Bioregion. During the first week of November we met with large groups of fishermen across multiple fisheries to combine individual fishery layers and develop overlay maps for:
1. All salmon & herring fisheries, 2. All shellfish fisheries, and 3. All groundfish and tuna fisheries.
During the second week of November, the MPT held meetings to further merge the layers developed in the first week. On November 13 we met with 28 groundfish, tuna, and salmon troll fishermen to develop an "Offshore" layer. On November 14 we met with 40 shellfish, herring and salmon seine and gillnet fishermen to develop an "Inshore" layer. During both of these merging meetings work was also done to adjust boundaries or zoning designations, or create new zones within the respective "Offshore" and "Inshore" areas, to capture important ecological targets. Each day of meetings with industry captures an enormous amount of knowledge and consensus advice that results in up to 20 additional hours of work by the MPT (specifically Grant and Mike) to ensure all of the advice (boundary lines, designations, and associated rationale and implications) received from the fishermen at each meeting is incorporated properly into the Seasketch mapping program. This work will be done early this week, so that we can run updated reports and determine how well each of the merged "Offshore" and "Inshore" maps score against the ecological targets and compare to the NSB MPA Network draft scenario provided by the Partners (DFO, Province and 16 First Nations).
To date we have drawn upon extremely valuable knowledge and experience from an amazing reservoir of commercial fishery participants. Over the next two weeks the MPT will also be holding meetings in Alert Bay, and possibly Port Hardy, with central coast and Northern Vancouver Island First Nations commercial fishing interests to seek their input on the "Offshore" and "Inshore" layers.
On November 12, the MPT met with environmental organizations (David Suzuki Foundation, World Wildlife Fund, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Living Oceans Society, and Nature Fund) to provide them with an update on the MPT process and to discuss work being undertaken by them and how it may be beneficial to the commercial industry efforts. The MPT is scheduled to meet again with
the ENGOs on November 21. The MPT also provided an update to 31 members of MPATT (MPA Technical Team) and the Partners on November 12 and are scheduled to do the same on November 20.
We have scheduled meetings for December 3, 4, and 5 at the Coast Bastion Hotel in Nanaimo with commercial fishing representatives from all of the shellfish, groundfish, tuna, herring and salmon fisheries to merge the "Offshore" and "Inshore" layers into a singular Commercial Fishery Map. This map will balance the need for important fishing access with protection of valuable ecological and cultural targets and will be the product of the collective knowledge and expertise of hundreds of commercial fishermen.
Since September 25 we have held 24 commercial fishing industry meetings with a registered attendance of 372 participants representing valuable input from 216 separate individuals. It is crucial that we continue to have substantial and comprehensive attendance and participation by experienced and knowledgeable fishermen at the upcoming meetings on December 3, 4 and 5 to ensure that each fisheries interests are being properly represented. Please share this with your fishery representatives. The map coming out of the meetings on December 3, 4 and 5 will be reviewed by commercial industry members at general industry meetings in the first two weeks of January (see attached schedule of meetings). As we have stated at the meetings, the final map will be presented to the Partners as a complete package not to be cherry picked or dissected because it represents hundreds of complex integrated compromises and agreements between fishing sectors and regions such that the change of one boundary and/or management designation affects many other boundaries and/or designations and, as such, the overall balance achieved by hundreds of commercial fishing industry participants. It is the MPT's stated position that any suggested or requested changes by the Partners will need to be brought back to the industry for their consideration and advice.
The MPT wishes to express our continued thanks and appreciation to all the individuals that have taken the time to attend these meetings and provide valuable input. We are developing a commercial fishing industry response and your participation is essential to the success of this initiative. Please don't hesitate to contact any one of the MPT members identified below if you have any questions or require additional information.
Brian Mose: bmose@uniserve.com
Grant Dovey: gdoveyoffice@shaw.ca
Mike Atkins: mike@tridentbc.ca
Bruce Turris: bruceturris@shaw.ca
OldBlackDog
Well-Known Member
Whole in the Water
Well-Known Member
Anyone know the proposed MPA areas for or seen (have links to) maps for the south coast and south Vancouver Island (i.e. west coast, JDF and Salish Sea)? So far only for the north coast.
SerengetiGuide
Well-Known Member
Why isn’t SFaB having this many meetings with dfo over this?
OldBlackDog
Well-Known Member
The incentive is jobs and money.
There is no drive like this in the Sports Fishing Sector.
There is no drive like this in the Sports Fishing Sector.
wildmanyeah
Crew Member
rather then sit and complain I tried to write some emails and see what I could find out. This is the best I could get with respect to maps.
Thank you for your email and your interest in the MPA Network planning process for the Northern Shelf Bioregion (NSB). The draft design scenario for the NSB MPA Network is very preliminary at this stage; none of the proposed sites or management measures have been endorsed by any of the three governance partners (Canada, Province of British Columbia and partnering First Nations).
At this point in the planning process, members of the five Network Advisory Committees have been asked to collect input on the draft network scenario and provide feedback by January 30, 2020. Each member has been asked to liaise with representatives of their sector to collect feedback which will then be considered carefully, along with input from the governance partners, as a revised network design scenario is developed. In light of the reviews that are currently underway, we anticipate that refinements will be made to the draft MPA Network design, which aims to support the conservation of important ecological and cultural values while minimizing impacts to various marine users.
I have attached a table here which shows you who the recreational fishing sector members are for the Network Advisory Committees, and recommend that you contact them for further information or if you are interested in providing input on the draft design.
Broad public consultations on a revised MPA Network design, which considers input from advisory committee members, is anticipated to take place later in 2020 or early 2021. The approach to public engagement will likely include open houses as well as an online survey, pending input from local governments and/or advisory committee members. I hope that the recreational fishing representatives on the Network Advisory Committees will be able to keep you apprised of these opportunities, as they arise.
Thank you,
MPATT co-chairs
Thank you for your email and your interest in the MPA Network planning process for the Northern Shelf Bioregion (NSB). The draft design scenario for the NSB MPA Network is very preliminary at this stage; none of the proposed sites or management measures have been endorsed by any of the three governance partners (Canada, Province of British Columbia and partnering First Nations).
At this point in the planning process, members of the five Network Advisory Committees have been asked to collect input on the draft network scenario and provide feedback by January 30, 2020. Each member has been asked to liaise with representatives of their sector to collect feedback which will then be considered carefully, along with input from the governance partners, as a revised network design scenario is developed. In light of the reviews that are currently underway, we anticipate that refinements will be made to the draft MPA Network design, which aims to support the conservation of important ecological and cultural values while minimizing impacts to various marine users.
I have attached a table here which shows you who the recreational fishing sector members are for the Network Advisory Committees, and recommend that you contact them for further information or if you are interested in providing input on the draft design.
Broad public consultations on a revised MPA Network design, which considers input from advisory committee members, is anticipated to take place later in 2020 or early 2021. The approach to public engagement will likely include open houses as well as an online survey, pending input from local governments and/or advisory committee members. I hope that the recreational fishing representatives on the Network Advisory Committees will be able to keep you apprised of these opportunities, as they arise.
Thank you,
MPATT co-chairs
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SerengetiGuide
Well-Known Member
The map OBD posted is different than the one on seasketch. Lots of different information floating around.
wildmanyeah
Crew Member
because its in the DRAFT stage anyone one can put anything on a map and submit it to the team.
You could map out all your favorite fishing holes and send them in saying that it important areas to the recreational fishing community and that if they were closed it would cost the industry millions of dollars and well as millions of dollars in tourist revenue to the local communities.
There is 4 guys listed there for north vancouver island you can always email them and provide them with feedback and ask them questions.
You could map out all your favorite fishing holes and send them in saying that it important areas to the recreational fishing community and that if they were closed it would cost the industry millions of dollars and well as millions of dollars in tourist revenue to the local communities.
There is 4 guys listed there for north vancouver island you can always email them and provide them with feedback and ask them questions.
wildmanyeah
Crew Member
The reality is everything done by the rec industry is volunteer, we dont have some paid person spearheading all this crap like other sectors do.
Derby
Crew Member
Jerry give your head a facking shake...
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