Herring Sale Cancelled Again

[High Time]

Email just received
Dear Friends of the Herring and Hake Sale:
After two nights of fishing the score is: Sea Lions 2 and Fishermen 0. Lots of herring but too many sea lions and a narrow window to fish.

CANCELLED. The herring and hake sale set for Saturday, December 7th is CANCELLED.

There may be a sale in January, but it is too early to tell.

The good news is that the herring you bought in years past helped us to save enough money for a bad year - the programs we fund for kids with cancer at BC Children's Hospital will not be affected.
Thanks for helping kids with cancer,

The Crew at Fishermen Helping Kids with Cancer


2019 HERRING AND HAKE SALE QUICK FACTS CANCELLED
Date: Saturday, December 7, 201 CANCELLED
Richmond Location: CANCELLED
Maple Ridge Location:CANCELLED
Victoria Location: CANCELLED

 

[Zodiac fisher]

Thanks for the update. Too bad, was looking forward to going this weekend.

 

[ChinookExerciser]

Can we get some good news? is there any out there?

 

[the butcher]

I received the email from them when the original date was cancelled but have not received an email this time around. Checked their website and there is no indication on that site that tomorrow's event is cancelled. I hope they can update the website and send out the emails(I am on their email list but did not receive the recent update). Would be a shame if lots of people were not informed and showed up tomorrow.

Just checked and their facebook page seems like the only place where they indicate that it has been cancelled. If I wasn't browsing the sportfishingbc.com forum yesterday or today, I wouldn't have known and would have shown up tomorrow.

 

[Wireman]

I just came back from the fish market down by fishermans wharf and I talked to a person that worked there and said that there were hundreds of sea lions breaking through the nets going after the herring and wrecking the nets.
What a shame!

 

[Rockfish]

I just came back from the fish market down by fishermans wharf and I talked to a person that worked there and said that there were hundreds of sea lions breaking through the nets going after the herring and wrecking the nets.
What a shame!

That is really a shame. But hay, no Pinniped problem right. Just ask the ENGO's.

 

[BigReel]

I just came back from the fish market down by fishermans wharf and I talked to a person that worked there and said that there were hundreds of sea lions breaking through the nets going after the herring and wrecking the nets.
What a shame!

 

[Matthew S.]

Ohhhhh baby!

 

[onefish]

I saw the footage on the news a week or so ago. Just a mass of seething giant brown maggots in the net. Absolutely impossible to try and fish under those conditions. Hard to imagine any herring sales in the future going up against the brown menace.

 

[fogged in]

I saw the footage on the news a week or so ago. Just a mass of seething giant brown maggots in the net. Absolutely impossible to try and fish under those conditions. Hard to imagine any herring sales in the future going up against the brown menace.

Where are all these Sea Lions coming from. They were not much of a problem 10 years ago.
I have heard it said they are California Sea Lions.
If so they should be treated as an invasive species and eradicated.

 

[silverscaletails]

There is another charity Herring Sale happening in Steveston in January.
https://www.sportfishingbc.com/forum/index.php?threads/herring-sale-in-steveston-january-11.78291/

I went to this sale the last two years and its been great - in and out within 10 minutes. Proceeds are for an autism charity.

 

[the butcher]

I can't make it on that date but will ask my buddy to grab some for me. Are the bags the same size as the charity event for kids with cancer? Will help me figure how many bags to ask my buddy to get for me.

There is another charity Herring Sale happening in Steveston in January.
https://www.sportfishingbc.com/forum/index.php?threads/herring-sale-in-steveston-january-11.78291/

I went to this sale the last two years and its been great - in and out within 10 minutes. Proceeds are for an autism charity.

 

[silverscaletails]

I can't make it on that date but will ask my buddy to grab some for me. Are the bags the same size as the charity event for kids with cancer? Will help me figure how many bags to ask my buddy to get for me.

I think so. They have 20lb bags for $20. I pre-ordered last year the charity's website - www.actcommunity.ca/herring. The line wasn't long when I got there though.

 

[Slabbedout]

Any news of a sale in Victoria ?