Subject: Fishing for answers: who gets to fish for B.C. salmon in the future?

[Derby]

Subject: Fishing for answers: who gets to fish for B.C. salmon in the future?





https://www.westerlynews.ca/news/fishing-for-answers-who-gets-to-fish-for-b-c-salmon-in-the-future/

 

[ship happens]

That's the worst fillet job I've seen in a long time lol

 

[Capt_Ed]

There's not a day goes by that I don't miss my long commercial fishing career. When I sold and retired in 2000 it was definitely the peak but the writing was on the wall then on where things were going. I would have hated to watch it go the way it has from the inside and seeing all the hard work and financial gain get slowly stripped away . It was a hell of a life while it lasted.

 

[searun]

Great article. Folks should pay close attention to what Jim McIsaac is saying about the need for transformative change within the commercial fishery - particularly the need on the West Coast to move back to Owner-Operator regulations that would protect jobs and economic benefits for small coastal communities in BC. Time for the age of the slipper skipper to die a swift death.

 

[Capt_Ed]

Great article. Folks should pay close attention to what Jim McIsaac is saying about the need for transformative change within the commercial fishery - particularly the need on the West Coast to move back to Owner-Operator regulations that would protect jobs and economic benefits for small coastal communities in BC. Time for the age of the slipper skipper to die a swift death.

Unfortunately it is WAY to late for that , we tried to stop it before it started but there was no hope then and unfortunately no chance now , IMHO

 

[Teal]

Great article. Folks should pay close attention to what Jim McIsaac is saying about the need for transformative change within the commercial fishery - particularly the need on the West Coast to move back to Owner-Operator regulations that would protect jobs and economic benefits for small coastal communities in BC. Time for the age of the slipper skipper to die a swift death.

This is the perfect opportunity to move rapidly towards selective fisheries, community based/owned processing facilities, and a BC based brand initiative. ( Think Copper River Salmon) .

 

[IronNoggin]

This is the perfect opportunity to move rapidly towards selective fisheries, community based/owned processing facilities, and a BC based brand initiative. ( Think Copper River Salmon) .

Under both the current fed & prov gov's that will never ever happen.

 

[wildmanyeah]

This is the perfect opportunity to move rapidly towards selective fisheries, community based/owned processing facilities, and a BC based brand initiative. ( Think Copper River Salmon) .

kinda the opposite of what is happening with that "small scale" first nation fishery of the west coast. That was designed and sold to the courts to be just that.

 

[Hardy Guy]

Yeah unfortunately the small scale local FN fishery went out the window fast and now its big boats, big gear and the court defined area is not so important.

 

[SpringFever552]

Under both the current fed & prov gov's that will never ever happen.

You said it, tidal wave of 1st nation commercial fisheries coming...
A colonial may be able to "contract" themselves and their boat out to a band, but that will be it..