Cohen Report: due this week!

[Little Hawk]

Good article here. High level of anticipation everywhere, but with guarded expectations.



http://www.vancouversun.com/news/na...+sockeye+Fraser+River+2009/7459983/story.html

I'm not holding my breath; I attended one of the Legatt Inquiry into Salmon Farming sessions and look what that scathing report brought us from the Campbell govt. - more fishfarms!

 

[tincan]

Great article from Otto Langer (ex DFO) as well. Will be interesting to see if/when the public gets access to this report as I'm sure several on this forum will be eager to read through it in detail.

http://thecanadian.org/item/1789-ot...arper-cohen-enquiry-sockeye-commission-report

 

[IronNoggin]

"DFO and DFO management has to be rehabilitated in that they are a major problem to overcome in resolving many fishery issues"

"... they “did not want anyone that was critical of DFO”"

"DFO and the Harper Government really cut Cohen off at the knees"

"The power to make those changes is now in the hands of government and that is where we can even have much greater reservations of what can or will happen. DFO will probably pick off the ripe low fruit that will support what they want to do and ignore the rest. Meanwhile, DFO and the Harper government will stubbornly go in their own direction as determined by the rigid control and less than scientific approach as seen in many other similar matters in the past few years."

Once again I concur with Otto. He's been inside and seen just what the guts of The Dino consist of. While there almost certainly has to be some good recommendations coming along via the Final Report, sadly I perceive there is little or No Intent to implement them. Great Job, thanks for the good work. Life carries on as we know it...

Nog