SerengetiGuide
Well-Known Member
A blockade as Spring Velocity states is more likely to backfire because we would be perceived by the public as just a greedy bunch wanting to continue to over fish the ocean stocks to even lower levels. You have the SRKW issue going on right now with not enough Chinook salmon to feed them....it will all get intertwined by the media. Just interview a couple of rednecks and the whole effort and message is lost. As Chris 73 says join an advocacy group that speaks on your behalf on the issues you want to be brought forward. SVIAC was mentioned by Serengeti...this group started and concentrates on the south Island because this is where the most severe restrictions on the recreational fishery exist. This group decided to be proactive and not just sit back and watch our local fisheries become increasingly more restrictive and watch fish populations continue to decline without a fight. Why not start a NVIAC? Local people with local knowledge working on local issues. Is that not what you would want? Obviously there would be cross over on many issues (Fraser River Chinook for one) and the groups could work together on those and become an even stronger unified voice.
I honestly can say I think this is a **** poor post. One BC wide is million times more powerful than a bunch of smaller advocacy groups. That’s just a fact.
And a blockade would not backfire...it gets attention on the subject which there is zero of now. That’s the key. You frame it as jimmy Pattison vs the average joe Canadian. The more spotlight on the subject mattter the better. Period.
Keep just doing the status quo and the “process”. See how that’s working for us....