DFO Ministers Take on Mark Selective Fisheries

[wildmanyeah]

Thanks to the Public fishery Alliance for putting this video out there!! and thanks to Ed Fast for asking the questions!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=395555728070904

Public Fishery Alliance
34 mins ·

BREAKING!!!!!!!!
Chinook Management Measures for 2020/2021.
Minister
Bernadette Jordan
's update on June 10th/2020!!
Sadly, there is nothing to update and there is no clarity moving forward. Very dissapointing as our coastal communities are in trouble and the system is broken.
Have a listen to a portion of yesterday's Standing Committee for Fisheries and Oceans session.
A big thank you to
Ed Fast
for pressing the Minister, the coast is desperate for answers. Also, thanks to
Gord Johns MP for Courtenay-Alberni
and
Mel Arnold, MP
for their questions to the Minister, it is noted and appreciated.
Can any of the MP's listed here give the coast an idea of when the new regulations will be released?
Terry Beech, MP
Ken Hardie - Member of Parliament, Fleetwood - Port Kells
Patrick Weiler, MP
Bernadette Jordan
Justin Trudeau
Gord Johns MP for Courtenay-Alberni
John Horgan
Mel Arnold, MP
We encourage you to join our growing collective voice. Join the PFA today =>

https://publicfisheryalliance.ca/membership-sign-up

 

[wildmanyeah]

 

[Unreel]

shocker, zero surprise there probably get a reply july 14.

 

[the butcher]

I am always surprised when we have appointmented officials like Bernadette who is at the top of the food chain at DFO responsible for making decisions that impact millions of lives and jobs and our natural resources, yet look at her resume and you tell me if she has the experience, credentials and intelligence to properly do the job... The answer is obviously no and therefore you get her dragging her feet, ignoring and beating around the bush when asked tough questions, etc..

When the questions get tough and she doesn't want to answer them any longer, she presses a button and her minion interrupts and tells Ed fast his 5 mins is over.

 

[ericl]

Plenty of info on MSF's here:
https://www.psc.org/about-us/struct...hery-evaluation/#squelch-taas-tab-content-0-0

The official process is that the MSF plan gets submitted by June 1 each year with earliest implementation June 1 the following year.

Nobody wants to be the bearer of unpopular news on this, including those on the SFAB as well as DFO.
From what I have heard, DFO did submit the plan proposed by SFAB, but the PSC has issues with the plan:

"There are several concerns regarding the B.C. recreational Chinook proposal, including complex (mark-mixed or mark- and size-mixed bag) regulations, visual sampling of heads leading to no unmarked tag recoveries, misalignment of catch sampling and CWT recovery programs with regulation boundaries, lack of estimates of released catch and for catch in certain periods, and no projected mark rates. The current evaluation of this proposal was based on some assumptions due to the non-specific nature of the proposal; the committee will reevaluate the proposal when an updated version is submitted."

 

[High Time]

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Plenty of info on MSF's here:
https://www.psc.org/about-us/struct...hery-evaluation/#squelch-taas-tab-content-0-0

The official process is that the MSF plan gets submitted by June 1 each year with earliest implementation June 1 the following year.

Nobody wants to be the bearer of unpopular news on this, including those on the SFAB as well as DFO.
From what I have heard, DFO did submit the plan proposed by SFAB, but the PSC has issues with the plan:

"There are several concerns regarding the B.C. recreational Chinook proposal, including complex (mark-mixed or mark- and size-mixed bag) regulations, visual sampling of heads leading to no unmarked tag recoveries, misalignment of catch sampling and CWT recovery programs with regulation boundaries, lack of estimates of released catch and for catch in certain periods, and no projected mark rates. The current evaluation of this proposal was based on some assumptions due to the non-specific nature of the proposal; the committee will reevaluate the proposal when an updated version is submitted."

And another year goes by..................

 

[ericl]

If you look at the web page I referenced above, there are documents with the names of the Canadians who are part of the MSF committee - might be worth a try to get a straight answer from them.

If the SFAB MSF goes the route we did in WA it will be a complex & expensive journey - studies/modeling/simulations/catch monitoring on the impact of a MSF on the wild fish is a big deal. There are a handful of Marine Area's that each get a summer season with a catch quota of around 5K fish per area; takes about 2 weeks to burn thru that quota. There are sometimes winter seasons with a similar quota, but it takes longer to burn thru the quota. Requires fish counters at virtually every access point to the S/W.
There is money provided by the US to fund the above stuff defined in the latest 2019 PST, but it is "based on the availability of funds"; which means the money needs to be approved by US Congress.