New fish Hatchery

[Derby]

http://www.newsdata.com/fishletter/390/3story.html

 

[Aces]

Too bad Canada doesn’t add more hatcheries

 

[Whole in the Water]

We need to pressure DFO to put more $ and resources into hatcheries to help augment declining chinook numbers. We cannot wait for wild salmon numbers to somehow increase on their own. Many SRKW will starve to death by then!

 

[Derby]

• DFO has increased chinook production in the Veddder river hatchery from 1 million to 1.5 million for 2019 and 2 million for 2020

 

[wildmanyeah]

• DFO has increased chinook production in the Veddder river hatchery from 1 million to 1.5 million for 2019 and 2 million for 2020

R they going to mark them?

 

[Whitebuck]

As someone who is on the Vedder daily in the fall and encounters a large amount of these hatchery fish...it is truly sad at how small a % of actual clipped return.

 

[Whole in the Water]

It is good the DFO is increasing hatchery production on the Vedder, but we need a lot more than this to feed the starving SRKW's, etc.. We need all hatcheries to increase production and more support for local, community run hatcheries and temporary net pens to increase survival rates. We need to produce more fish now, not wait for more studies.

 

[High Time]

Do we know what percentage of the Vedder hatchery smolts are marked? How do you provide and manage a "marked only " fishery and get any meaningful data and outcome, unless all the hatchery smolts are marked? Aren't you producing harvestable fish that can not be harvested? More rocket science from DFO. They will do anything but put the necessary resources into managing the West Coast fishery properly. Never have,and probably never will...

 

[Dave]

One of the reasons Chilliwack chinooks are not CW tagged is they are a put and take fishery - there is virtually no recruitment of wild white chinooks on this system.
Pretty sure that will have to change in the future - more money meaning another program will likely be cut to fund marking.

 

[Derby]

DFO is being urged to purchase more machine & clip them all... the current clip rate varies system to system.. we will be most likely be seeing more hatchery production come into play but like everything there needs to be a balanced approach.... habitat, problem seal & sea loin controls in place ect ..ect... its about checks and balances & yes , is there any money for it...

 

[Whole in the Water]

Totally agree to a balanced approach. IMO increased clipped hatchery production can bring faster results then some of the big habitat restoration projects needed and is much easier to implement publically and politically then seal lion culls. Nevertheless we need them all and to by brought on line quickly if we hope to reduce SRKW starvation and meet the increasing pressure from in-river salmon harvesting.

The public fishing sector, public and lobby groups needs to keep pressuring our politicians to fund more hatchery production of clipped fish. Need to make it a political and election issue. This is a very important issue for BC's coastal communities!