Deewar25
Well-Known Member
not so much heckling, but more like rebuttals if the comments felt misguided. Most comments were more along the lines of that is incorrect, or I don't agree, or look, studies are saying this - here is a link, here is an example. It's easy to just state, 'whales are this, because of that' and the sheep will drink it up, but if you present to them, yeah, but what if, and what about! They need to hear different viewpoints IMH and I did see several comments along those lines.Heckling doesn't do much to help our cause. I watched the entire video that was posted. What is the remarkable difference is the message they put out. We as sports fisherman all knew prior to this the impact these types of closures would have on coastal communities. These closures were inevitable, and when they present a well structured, multiple impact argument to the decline of early run Fraser stocks and how that all ties into the state of the SRKWs, and we come back with literally nothing....then who s going to win? We need to structure ourselves better, invest in scientific studies and have the right people vocalizing our concerns if we want to get ahead. The one argument they made, which I do agree with, is our reliance on hatcheries to bring back the stocks. Hatcheries have their place, no doubting that, but stream and river enhancement projects, protections of those habitats and allowing more wild stock to carry on the gene pool are much more important. If we are going to protect our ability to fish and retain, then I don't think constantly fighting out in the open is doing us any favours.