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This whole process we are dragged into each year is like a giant game of whack a mole...sanctuary proposals popping up everywhere the whales swim from one year to the next. There is no consideration for achieving any sort of balance that respects small coastal communities, their social and economic well-being. These proposals in Area 20-3 to 21-0 that close the shoreline are a tragic mis-calculation by DFO - the fishery there will be killed without a shoreline fishery corridor that is so critical for the survival of the recreational fishery and communities like Port Renfrew. Mean spirited and tragic death by a thousand cuts, chipping away each year to claw back a little more here and there so there isn't a huge uproar.
This is all being pushed by the ENGO's who care only about what serves their business model so they can create yet another pretty map to drum up more research money and funding. There is a reason why the folks south of us in the US haven't followed suit implementing massive fishery closures and creating sanctuaries. Think about it.
And on the topic of prey availability and recreational fishing competing with whales for prey....hasn't anyone been paying attention - most of the east coast VI and west coast VI hatchery rivers are forecasting abundant returns for 2024, and 2023 was an epic year. Stamp had close to 200,000. And we are starting to get data on escapement to Interior rivers. Summer 4/1 was 623,000 escapement, Harrison was 143,000 against an escapement target of 85,000. Cowichan - 3x escapement target....one river after another with record returns and positive forecasts.
The Chinook crisis does affect a lot of the Stream-type Chinook - but many of the Ocean-type returns are abundant creating lots of Chinook prey for whales. So how is there a Chinook crisis that creates the emergency lack of food for SRKW? We are being fed a line of BS by the whale researchers. Who benefits when there is all this crisis talk?
I guess as long as we can post up a bunch of new mapswith more closures that gives a pretty media post that big things are happening to save the whales - weird when there has been no science to evaluate if these sanctuary measures are even bringing a recovery benefit for whales.
Look at the maps. They telall. All their dirty work is being done where the fewest voices will be heard. Another step in the Liberal agenda to achieve their goal to protect 30% of da's land and sea areas, green wash the pipeline expansions by appearing to protect killer whales and chinook stocks, and at the same time scori political points with the ignorant publicSomeone has to lose something somewhere, so we see the chipping away of the fringes