Whole in the Water
Well-Known Member
It is the end of August and the release was dated July - Did they sit on this info for 2 months?
Sounds to me like someone has their wires crossed and the story came back conveniently tied to salmon farms.
The herring that enter the pens live safely until harvest when they are "caught" and released.
I'd say they fare better than all the ones used as bait by guys like you.
I am not sure of the time of the harvest (happened in the last 2-3 months, can find out if need be) but that it not the important point. What is important it that there are eye witnesses to what happened at the salmon feedlot/farm. Also the herring were NOT released like they are supposed to be, they when questioned about this it was found out that they were sold to Walcan!
So what do we have here; (1) herring and other small wild fish being mixed up with feedlot salmon and potentially getting diseased (see articles about recently found diseased herring), (2) wild fish (in this case herring) being illegally harvested and then illegally sold by salmon feedlots to help sustain their economically and environmentally unsustainable industry!
Herring populations in this area are down and in some areas haven't spawned in siginficant numbers in 3-4 years, but oh well, not a problem for the feedlot farmers... disgusting, shamefull and illegal I and others say!!!
If your industry didn't have such strong 'paid for' political support from DFO & other Govt bureaucrats the offending parties would be fined and/or shut down for such activities!