Quote from TC today:
Venture seeks to revive sport fishery by releasing hatchery-reared fry
Sandra Mcculloch, Times Colonist
Published: Monday, February 11, 2008
They're growing fast now, and the 250,000 pink salmon fry have lost the egg sacs from their bellies.
It's starting to look like about 8,000 of them might survive a two-year journey to the open ocean and return to be caught on a fishing line in Cowichan Bay.
Paul Rickard is optimistic that a venture to release pink salmon from a net pen in Cowichan Bay this spring will bring a thriving sport fishery back to the seaside community south of Duncan.
This is a joke. Let's release thousands of pink fry just in time for 2010 and hide from the World the incompentence and environmental disasters including fish farms and overfishing perpetuated by our governments. Does anyone remember expo 86'? Coho Everywhere. They released more coho fry to be adults for that event than any other year (at least that was our experience in CR.) We never had it so good. It was all down-hill from there. What was it... 2-3 cycles to total collapse and closure of the coho sports fishery? (reminds me of the Broughton predictions.) The fish couldn't be worse off.
Venture seeks to revive sport fishery by releasing hatchery-reared fry
Sandra Mcculloch, Times Colonist
Published: Monday, February 11, 2008
They're growing fast now, and the 250,000 pink salmon fry have lost the egg sacs from their bellies.
It's starting to look like about 8,000 of them might survive a two-year journey to the open ocean and return to be caught on a fishing line in Cowichan Bay.
Paul Rickard is optimistic that a venture to release pink salmon from a net pen in Cowichan Bay this spring will bring a thriving sport fishery back to the seaside community south of Duncan.
This is a joke. Let's release thousands of pink fry just in time for 2010 and hide from the World the incompentence and environmental disasters including fish farms and overfishing perpetuated by our governments. Does anyone remember expo 86'? Coho Everywhere. They released more coho fry to be adults for that event than any other year (at least that was our experience in CR.) We never had it so good. It was all down-hill from there. What was it... 2-3 cycles to total collapse and closure of the coho sports fishery? (reminds me of the Broughton predictions.) The fish couldn't be worse off.