Whales heed DFO's "Chinook Ban"

[islandboy]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...-t-been-spotted-in-b-c-s-salish-sea-1.5193357
Kudos to the guys/gals out fishing. Proving the salmon are there and the whales are not?
Enjoy the fishing.
Keep records of what you catch and see.

 

[agentaqua]

Pretty unprofessional reporting - not fact-checking nor getting another perspective. Where's info/comments from people who instead make their living studying salmon? Are Chinook runs actually down from last year in the Salish Sea especially after all these closures? Are the Northern Residents (who's numbers are expanding and are healthy) pushing Southern residents out of the area? Did the Southern residents stay late to take advantage of Chinook numbers in the states?

And wouldn't the Southern Residents have to appear 1st and try the area out to tell there were no Chinook and then leave? Kinda logical - no?

 

[islandboy]

All good questions. More reason for the sporties to get back out there in numbers and keep an eye on what is happening.

 

[searun]

Anyone who is actually out on the water fishing will tell you there are way, way more Chinook this year and the fish are larger than prior years. Also, incidentally the Upper Fraser indicator stocks are showing larger than forecast returns to the Albion Test Fishery. Again, even larger than the revised forecast which indicated the preliminary sky is falling forecast was way off course.

 

[SpringVelocity]

We believe that is because there currently aren't enough chinook salmon returning to the river area. So they have to be somewhere else to get food," said Joan Lopez, a marine naturalist with Vancouver Whale Watch, a tourism outfit.

What a load of ********.

 

[ab1752]

We believe that is because there currently aren't enough chinook salmon returning to the river area. So they have to be somewhere else to get food," said Joan Lopez, a marine naturalist with Vancouver Whale Watch, a tourism outfit.

What a load of ********.

Just a self serving sound bite from someone who is totally in a conflict of interest. Total garbage article full of click bait.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Its hard to take this crap serious anymore....like sweet Jesus...First they said there is no chinook around so we needed closures...They said we needed closures immediately because these animals were not capable of adapting....Now they are saying they are not in the salish sea because they are what adapting??? lol

Christ almighty

 

[wildmanyeah]

need a strong stomach to read some one this stuff. Engo's getting lots of airtime..

WA's resident orcas go missing
https://www.chinookobserver.com/new...cle_5e23bf5a-9c4b-11e9-b311-9f79914ea1ba.html

Where are the whales? Concern over no-show endangered orcas in Salish Sea

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/...show-endangered-orcas-in-salish-sea-1.4491006

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1720995&jwsource=cl

 

[wildmanyeah]

This one is a much watch. Was on last night, The wildmanyeah even makes brief appearance although you only can see the back of me.

 

[halimark]

Just more BS. I fully understood the scientist at the Vic meeting when he stated that the SRKW while STARVING will swim past/thru schools of pinks, sockeye, and other species and ultimately starve to death, they will only prey on the chinook. What an butt. Ties in with last nights report on the missing whales, the new 40 meter up from 20 meter buffer zone cannot be studied for its impact. Not 200 and 400. News these days has more mistakes than real details. Trumps US fake news is Canada also.

HM