Liberals to ban fishing in BC?
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ship happens
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I'm 100 percent onboard with this. The million dollar question. Can we get a large amount of money on deck? How?
Sharphooks
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C&R works if people are educated on how to do it correctly. This summer in my local fishery I saw stunningly bad behavior with wild chinook hook-ups….(wild chinook are 100% mandatory C&R) ….
Every boat, and I mean every boat, netted EVERY fish they hooked…there was zero attempt to even look at the fish and see what they had before the net came out….the fish was netted and came over the gunnel into the boat….then if it was determined to be wild (while flopping in the net on the deck) it was finally either removed from the net and tossed over board or the net was placed back in the water and turned inside out.
Many of these boats were sophisticated fish-catching machines. I was floored watching this behavior from people who should have known better
If I was a fishery manager, I’d be very tempted to count these C&R disasters as a 50% mortality data point. I know they already count “incidents” of juvenile chinook catches as a mortality and close down fisheries when those “incidents” reach a certain threshold.
It blows my mind how uninformed (or lazy) people are in these fisheries. This automatic reaching for a net on every fish has to change when it comes to chinook C&R. Meanwhile, I had hoped the guides in that fleet would have shown better behavior but they were the worst.
Every boat, and I mean every boat, netted EVERY fish they hooked…there was zero attempt to even look at the fish and see what they had before the net came out….the fish was netted and came over the gunnel into the boat….then if it was determined to be wild (while flopping in the net on the deck) it was finally either removed from the net and tossed over board or the net was placed back in the water and turned inside out.
Many of these boats were sophisticated fish-catching machines. I was floored watching this behavior from people who should have known better
If I was a fishery manager, I’d be very tempted to count these C&R disasters as a 50% mortality data point. I know they already count “incidents” of juvenile chinook catches as a mortality and close down fisheries when those “incidents” reach a certain threshold.
It blows my mind how uninformed (or lazy) people are in these fisheries. This automatic reaching for a net on every fish has to change when it comes to chinook C&R. Meanwhile, I had hoped the guides in that fleet would have shown better behavior but they were the worst.
SpringFever2359
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Pathetic if true, but thats what the lie brals are known for..being Pathetic
Time to fk with the liebral government and get as many boats out everywhere on the water, stack a bunch of rods with no gear onto cannon balls or send jig down with no hooks, "test" some new gear without hooks for a weekend...all in closed areas...
SpringVelocity
Crew Member
I keep telling people this has all has been brought to us by our environmental friends. Why do you think DFO had that SEP review process a while back, and asked people to give feedback.
I find it sad still to this day people haven't clued in to what is going on.
But hey keep blaming FN for everything while NGO sit back and laugh dividing all of us. Told you guys before they don't want any hatcheries, and all this whale stuff is eating up funding. I am not surprised as the SRKW initiatives they keep making are costing DFO a fortune.
But hey lets all follow the NGO groups on Facebook and join all their causes like many of our fellow anglers like to do. When there are no salmon and fishing is closed you can stand with them to close herring
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