DFO Research Validates Anglers’ Position on Chinook Non-Retention

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DFO Research Validates Anglers’ Position on Chinook Non-Retention - Island Fisherman Magazine

In 2023, 128 boat days produced 1,084 Chinook for analysis. In 2024, 316 boat days produced 2,436 Chinook samples in the test fishery.

islandfishermanmagazine.com

 

[Whole in the Water]

Great news! Will DFO pay any attention to it?

More importantly how does this impact the upper Fraser FN's who are currently pressuring DFO for more chinook for FSC needs?

Some of the proposed solutions are to further restrict the public fishery for chinook in the Salish Sea and JDF Strait even more then it already is!!!

This could led to virtually no public chinook fishery for south Van Isle in the summer!!! How is this a solution - other then a purely expedient political response.

How about they talk to the FN's on the lower Fraser to let more salmon past their nets for the FN's up stream?

 

[searun]

Nailed it - this is a political issue not a science-based issue. Has everything to do with the Reconciliation agenda in Ottawa. You have an opportunity on April 28th to change that.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Nailed it - this is a political issue not a science-based issue. Has everything to do with the Reconciliation agenda in Ottawa. You have an opportunity on April 28th to change that.

unfortunately it looks like my wife will cancel out my vote shes to worried that PP will cut healthcare spending and is not impressed with his MPs that came out and said they wanted become the 51st state. Weather i can go fishing or not is no concern of hers lol

 

[Corey_lax]

unfortunately it looks like my wife will cancel out my vote shes to worried that PP will cut healthcare spending and is not impressed with his MPs that came out and said they wanted become the 51st state. Weather i can go fishing or not is no concern of hers lol

I'm in the same boat at home LOL

 

[SG2.0]

unfortunately it looks like my wife will cancel out my vote shes to worried that PP will cut healthcare spending and is not impressed with his MPs that came out and said they wanted become the 51st state. Weather i can go fishing or not is no concern of hers lol

They’ve said they will continue the increase healthcare spending at the same rate as previous liberals and conservatives governments fyi.

Back to the OP… doubt dfo even cares. Unless the study shows what they want it to show they just ignore it. Insane.

 

[agentaqua]

They’ve said they will continue the increase healthcare spending at the same rate as previous liberals and conservatives governments fyi.

Back to the OP… doubt dfo even cares. Unless the study shows what they want it to show they just ignore it. Insane.

Yep. Nailed it. It's a rigged game.

If the science/data is inconvenient - they claim (lie) that they only accept data/science from the CSAS/PSARC process and not independent science. They normally wait until you do the study and they get to see the results before admitting this.

Then if they do a CSAS review - they are very selective about who they allow to referee on that paper. If the topic is reasonably non-controversial to their game plan - they are way more open to being inclusive. We have all seen that play in action numerous times - esp. in the sea lice/aquaculture end of CSAS reviews.

 

[RalphH]

After I read this article I was left with a nagging question; how high does low have to be before it is not low enough?

 

[cohochinook]

Public Fishery Alliance has Facebook post up on it on their page Post

 

[SpringVelocity]

This why we are restricted and why it will get worse in coming years. You have the environmental groups positioning themselves to work with other sectors to stamp out all ocean fishing.

My belief is there is push to increase river terminal fishing by moving our allocation behind closed doors till there isn't anything left for our sector.

This statement was from Raincoast at beginning of year in Times Colonist. It can't be any more crystal clear where this is going.

"One way to address this is by changing our harvest of migrating and rearing chinook salmon. Moving interception fisheries from the ocean to the river could allow the larger body sizes and older ages of past chinook to return over time.

It would also rebuild many weak salmon populations. These “terminal” fisheries were the way First Nations, and even early colonial, fisheries were once conducted.

In addition to benefiting whales and chinook salmon, terminal fisheries provide social and economic benefits to river-based communities that are otherwise last in line to catch returning fish."

 

[Ryan A]

Are any of the heads of our public fishery groups making the media or politicians aware of DFO’s sudden realization that we were right all along?

 

[onefish]

If the new facts don't agree with the agenda they will likely just be ignored or discredited. Same old DFO.

 

[Derby]

Are any of the heads of our public fishery groups making the media or politicians aware of DFO’s sudden realization that we were right all along?

Yes they are & have been for a while. What I can say the right people are being talked to and anyone that will listen in Ottawa. However this is the current government agenda and will continue to until a change in government

 

[ILHG]