Little Hawk
Active Member
Governor;
Your enthusiasm is infectious. Keep it up!
Where were you when the WSA was born?
Please do not interpret this as an attempt to derail your thread.
Too bad the halibut fisheries manager's weren't calling the shots for Pacific salmon a couple of decades back; maybe we would still have more salmon around as well.
You are dead-right about apathy and dis-organization amongst BC's sport-fishing community, and true as well, our government, the commercial's, and the fish-farmers all play on it like a finely tuned violin.
I have no bones with commercial fishermen, they are simply taking what is being given to them. What I have issue with, as do many, is the obvious lack of apportionment of the resource. It does not work to the greater-benefit of the people of BC and needs to be fixed!
If it helps you at all, I would offer but a humble word of caution in your efforts to organize the 'boys': choose your words carefully. In the last year or so I've been trying to build the WSA into something formidable to do battle with government and the fishfarmers, I've given rein to my mouth (ahead of my brain) on more than one occasion and it has not served the cause; several have quit the movement. I have been called names and jabbed-at by my fellow 'sporties' as well as the fish-farmers. I have been accused by the RCMP of making bomb and extortion threats against an office (DFO) of the Canadian government. In short, I have had what your average dude might say is ample reason and opportunity to simply throw my hands in the air and quit this battle against this great 'blight' on our coastline.
Yet, I have no intention of quitting and I will continue to learn from my mistakes and use what I learn to try to help ensure there are still some fish around for my kids and grandkids.
Stay focused on your goal and let everything else run off your back like water off a duck.
Whatever develops from your noble efforts here, you can count on my support as well as that from the WSA that I can enlist. Good on you.
Cheers to you and the rest of the 'Warriors' on this forum!
Terry Anderson
Wild Salmon Alliance
Your enthusiasm is infectious. Keep it up!
Where were you when the WSA was born?
Please do not interpret this as an attempt to derail your thread.
Too bad the halibut fisheries manager's weren't calling the shots for Pacific salmon a couple of decades back; maybe we would still have more salmon around as well.
You are dead-right about apathy and dis-organization amongst BC's sport-fishing community, and true as well, our government, the commercial's, and the fish-farmers all play on it like a finely tuned violin.
I have no bones with commercial fishermen, they are simply taking what is being given to them. What I have issue with, as do many, is the obvious lack of apportionment of the resource. It does not work to the greater-benefit of the people of BC and needs to be fixed!
If it helps you at all, I would offer but a humble word of caution in your efforts to organize the 'boys': choose your words carefully. In the last year or so I've been trying to build the WSA into something formidable to do battle with government and the fishfarmers, I've given rein to my mouth (ahead of my brain) on more than one occasion and it has not served the cause; several have quit the movement. I have been called names and jabbed-at by my fellow 'sporties' as well as the fish-farmers. I have been accused by the RCMP of making bomb and extortion threats against an office (DFO) of the Canadian government. In short, I have had what your average dude might say is ample reason and opportunity to simply throw my hands in the air and quit this battle against this great 'blight' on our coastline.
Yet, I have no intention of quitting and I will continue to learn from my mistakes and use what I learn to try to help ensure there are still some fish around for my kids and grandkids.
Stay focused on your goal and let everything else run off your back like water off a duck.
Whatever develops from your noble efforts here, you can count on my support as well as that from the WSA that I can enlist. Good on you.
Cheers to you and the rest of the 'Warriors' on this forum!
Terry Anderson
Wild Salmon Alliance