Newf
Crew Member
I don't think that many would disagree that this is a multifaceted problem. My intent with the video clip is to show that there are also many that believe that seals/sea lions is just one of them but is denied by many others as being a factor. As for your point about herring and the fisherman participating in a fishery that has "scooped up in huge numbers just BEFORE they reproduce", I would say two things. One is that he is participating in a fishery that is authorized and heavily monitored by the fisheries and two, if he waited until they spawned then it would not be called a roe herring fishery. It will always be a fact that fisherman will continue to fish in a fishery that's permitted and will attempt to catch the quota's they are given and we will continue to debate what's right and wrong. There will soon be more experts on the subject than there are fish and since I am far from an expert I will end it there. PS. Yes, I do know that the seiners almost wiped out the herring fisher on this coast in the 60's. Many boats of the West coast fleet then moved to the East coast and almost wiped them out there as well.The reasons for the decline of the SRKW are multifaceted, shipping traffic, human competition for chinook, they swim in waters full of sewage effluent of various degrees of treatment, pinniped competion etc