Raincoast wants total closure of ALL fisheries.
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OldBlackDog
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This has a direct relationship to the thread noted that Admin. Closed.
Ignore at your own risk.
https://www.sportfishingbc.com/foru...fighting-against-this-is-effecting-you.74081/
Ignore at your own risk.
https://www.sportfishingbc.com/foru...fighting-against-this-is-effecting-you.74081/
It’s really hard to justify total closures for conservation reasons when IMO we have really just gotten started at many new measures to help with declining stocks. Closing everything down simply means our government watched another collapse of a coastal fishery. I’m not sure they want to tell folks in BC that oops we blew another one. I applaud activism its certainly needed but I would be interested to hear their plan to replace the hundreds of millions of dollars of lost revenue and thousands of lost jobs due to the closures. It’s easy to call for a complete ban on something when your livelihood doesn’t rely on it. We haven’t reduced annual catch limits for the rec sector, why not? It might help. Reduce legal size limits down to 50 cm Province wide. Where I fish it’s 24 1/2 inches to keep a legal Chinook. Too big folks, too many injured Chinook being thrown back because they’re an inch or two undersized. There’s lots of things we could be doing. Let’s just start. It’s achievable.
wildmanyeah
Crew Member
They also want to shut down fish farms, seal harvests, Chinook fishing and commercial herring fishing.
Instead of pointing fingers at all the industry's and doing their dirty work for them we should be working together.
Instead of pointing fingers at all the industry's and doing their dirty work for them we should be working together.
walleyes
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Lol,, well no **** !!
But let’s close down the threads that discuss these groups cause well, they have nothing to do with fishing, nor does politics have anything to do with fishing cause regulations make up themselves right ? Politicians don’t have any influence on these decisions
Derby
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Derby
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and we need people to show up to these to call out all the miss information that NGO are throwing out there ... too start to call them out and hold them accountable... perhaps visit some of there social medi accounts & start calling them out... accountability needs to demand now for the so wrong and misguided statements.....
Fishmyster
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Where, what or when is the best venue to have a public discussion with them? I would like to rattle them up a little.
searun
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I would say its a must attend if nothing else than to show up and let them look at some of the 9,000 faces they are working to put out of work and onto the streets. These ENGO's care not about the impacts their actions have on real people who are also part of the ecosystem. We need to show up and send a message, let them see what the impacts are and answer tough questions about what they propose to do about all the people they impact and the devastation to coastal communities. Unless they see and feel the impact of their actions, it will always be easy to kick the recreational dog and not fear it will bite back.
searun
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More interesting linkages...and you all wonder why the ENGO's seem to have the ear of this Liberal Government??
https://business.financialpost.com/...-oil-activists-infiltrated-canadas-government
https://business.financialpost.com/...-oil-activists-infiltrated-canadas-government
These are the ENGO Social Media sites that need to be followed and commented on. With good science based responses, it will help put doubt into the minds of their followers. Georgia Strait Alliance and Rain Coast have a massive following but do not seem to be very knowledgeable about chinook salmon and their dynamics. So far, a lot of the science based challenges that some of us have posted on their social media sites have demonstrated that they really lack a thorough understanding of salmon in general and are not credible sources. The unfortunate part of the scenario is most of their followers are even more clueless and recklessly follow these ENGOs and unfortunately the rec sector will bear the brunt of their petitions.
https://www.facebook.com/GeorgiaStraitBC/
https://www.facebook.com/Raincoast/
https://www.facebook.com/SalishSeaOrcas/
Birdsnest
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WWF+Gerald Butts+Trudeau.... Connect the dots. This is not good.
OldBlackDog
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But the American anti-oilsands funding effort didn’t stop at encouraging opposition to oil pipelines. The Victoria-based Dogwood Initiative received millions of dollars from Tides Canada to run get-out-the-vote campaigns in the 2017 B.C. provincial election, including deploying a throng of campaign workers in the riding of Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver. After his election, the B.C. government would be in the hands of an NDP/Green alliance bent on fighting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
ILHG
Crew Member
In 7 months we have a federal Election. Liberals need BC for a majority. BC actually has a way to put the brakes on this.
wildmanyeah
Crew Member
Kinda annoying to listen to all the sport fishermen at last nights SFAC meeting spend time to ***** about the Herring fishery, Fish Farms and gill nets. Honestly seemed more worry about all that then our own closures. Guess the ENGO media is really powerful.
well hope your happy with a catch and release fishery because that all Vancouver going to get this year.
well hope your happy with a catch and release fishery because that all Vancouver going to get this year.
Don't know why that would be annoying as those are three major contributors to the problem and must be addressed.
wildmanyeah
Crew Member
Have you personally ever talked face to face a DFO manager about those topics??
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