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Originally posted by SerengetiGuide
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Originally posted by richmake
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Originally posted by The Fish Assassin
quote:mr assassin, i have to just shake my head in disbelief when i read what you type.
what we are talking about is commercial harvest of fishes by native and non-native commercial fishermen.
Well perhaps you either read a different article then me or you’re adding your own views to it. This topic is about over fishing by commercial and sports, there is no mention in the article about terminal Native fisheries. That is what makes this a good article. Finally someone puts the blame where it belongs. So don't try to ruin a good article by adding your own narrow minded views on this subject. This article was written based on
data over a 55-year period. I guess your welcome to ignore the facts but it's completely your prerogative. It is no real surprise to me that DFO manages with tainted information. If they had listend to First Nations we wouldn't be in as bad a situation as we are in now. There is no-one in BC that relys so heavily on the salmon more so than Natives. It is an itegral part of our culture. When we told DFO to stop the sports fishing and Commercial fishing or the stocks would collapse it always fell on deaf ears. So now that the **** is hitting the fan is is almost commical to watch people like yourself blame Natives at all for the demise of Salmon. This is simply a case of
I told you so!!
Take only what you need.
reading your statements on here is like watching train wreck....
You are totally supportive of only one user group and completely wrong in so many ways.
It's not that you stand up for what you believe right...
it's how you portray the First Nations in the year 2008 and beyond as victims in society and it's just starting to get old on the board...
just my 2 cents
www.coastwidesportsfishing.com
x a million
www.serengetifishingcharters.com
X 3
Commercial... is Commercial and the selling of fish by anyone should be considered commercial! I don't care what nationality!
But that aside, when you read articles like the one below everyone needs get involved! I don’t recommend shutting it down for the commercial fleet (including the selling of fish by Natives), the natives, or the sport fisherman… I recommend monitoring the stocks and shutting them down completely for all when necessary giving the stock a chance to rebuild. If we don’t the only thing left will be “hatchery” and “farmed” fish!
“One-Quarter of World's Sockeye Salmon Face Extinction Press Releases
International Union for the Conservation of Nature Adds Pacific Sockeye to Global Red List of Threatened Species. Most endangered runs in British Columbia.
Vancouver, B.C./ Portland, OR, USA, October 6, 2008
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) today placed Pacific Sockeye Salmon on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The Red List is the international standard for measuring species' risk of extinction.
The listing is based on IUCN's first global assessment of the commercially and recreationally valuable sockeye, whose native range covers the Pacific Rim from southern Russia to Oregon. Most of the critically endangered sockeye runs are in British Columbia, where dramatic declines have occurred in stretches of the Fraser and Skeena Rivers.
"Placing Pacific sockeye Salmon on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species should be a wakeup call to all the nations and peoples of the Pacific Rim," said Guido Rahr, President of the Wild Salmon Center, which works to conserve a network of Wild Salmon ecosystems in Japan, Russia, Canada and the United States. "While many runs of sockeye in Alaska and Russia remain strong, certain runs in British Columbia and the U.S. Pacific Northwest are at high risk of extinction."
B.C. runs listed as threatened or endangered.
The majority of threatened subpopulations are in British Columbia, according to the Salmonid Specialist Group (SSG), which prepared the IUCN Assessment. Subpopulations at risk include those in sections of the Fraser and Skeena Rivers, as well as smaller rivers in the southern coast of the province. Many have experienced steep declines, with runs in some areas declining by more than 80 percent in the last three generations (or twelve years). Several of the runs were listed as critically endangered.
"Not since the devastating landslide at Hell's Gate in the Fraser River in the early 1900's have B.C.'s Sockeye Salmon been at this level of risk," said Dr. Pete Rand, the lead assessor on the IUCN report. "And the risk is not limited to the Fraser, but includes many populations along coastal waters and larger interior watersheds, particularly the famed Skeena River."
Although many factors have contributed to the sockeye's decline, current threats include: mixed-stock fishing, poor ocean survival rates that may be linked to global climate change, habitat deterioration, and effects from hatcheries and artificial spawning channels.
"The deteriorating situation for western Canada's sockeye has been suspected for some time," said Dr. Mart Gross of the University of Toronto. "The IUCN assessment provides the evidence that some populations are rapidly approaching extinction."
While sockeye as a species does not face global extinction, the decline and potential loss of so many subpopulations diminishes its genetic diversity and resilience in the face of environmental threats. Regionally, the loss or decline of sockeye subpopulations could hurt Salmon-dependent economies and ecosystems.”
