Listen to Jason Tonelli on CKNW Jill Bennett Show September 8th

This was put out by the Sportfishing Institute on the Election:

The Federal Election

The next Federal election will be fast upon us and it is safe to say that this is likely to be one of the most important elections in decades for our fishery. Regardless of who or which party is elected, ensuring that the government understands, supports and is willing to invest in the future of our fishery and the resources that it depends upon has never been more important.

Healthy, abundant salmon stocks and the fisheries they support are critically important to many British Columbians. With over 300,000 individuals who purchase recreational fishing licenses each year, the effects, impacts and benefits to small communities and businesses from access to sustainable resources is socially and economically vital to BC. We believe that our elected officials need to recognize and support initiatives to maintain and, where necessary and possible, rebuild salmon populations in order to avoid a repeat of the harmful and, in many cases, unnecessary restrictions that were imposed on fisheries on the South Coast in 2019.

Here are some key points that every potential MP should be asked to address and provide a position for. Ask your local candidates;

Do you and your party:

  • Support the use of hatchery-based enhancement to either maintain or rebuild salmon populations at a level that will support vibrant, healthy, sustainable fisheries?
  • Support the use of Mass Marking and Mark Selective Fisheries as a way to provide access to abundant stocks of hatchery produced salmon and avoid wild stocks of concern?
  • Support the need for government to enforce existing laws and regulations that protect salmon habitat, and invest in habitat rehabilitation initiatives to promote long term sustainability?
  • Support the idea of science-based predator control in specific areas to address the unprecedented impacts that predators are incurring on salmon stocks?
  • Understand the importance of the public fishery to your riding, and the impact that a lack of certainty and stability in regulations and access has on businesses and citizens who either support or participate in the fishery?
  • Understand the impact that open net pen salmon farming has on wild salmon, and support a transition to mandatory closed containment salmon farming by 2025? (for more detail please click here)
  • Understand that fishery resources are a common property resource, managed by the Federal Government at tax-payers expense for the benefit of all Canadians, and are willing to support the idea that all Canadians should be able to benefit from those resources in a meaningful way?
We urge all SFI members to make candidates understand that the public fishery is important to you and your community. Get out there, ask the questions and make sure your potential MP understands that the public fishery is important to their riding, that their feedback on these important issues is vitally important, and that their responses will be held to account following the election.
 
We definitely need to ask the SFI questions.

I agree with others on here that we need to be hard on all the parties and the Conservatives definitely need to answer for their lack of results when they held power for a decade, it is a fair question.
 
Miss the friday news post

https://www.canada.ca/en/fisheries-...-oceans-canada-to-advance-reconciliation.html

"Expanding the co-development, co-design, and co-delivery approach, building on AICFI/PICFI and IPR"


Transformative change underway at Fisheries and Oceans Canada to advance reconciliation

Looked at some of the chapters in the Action Plan document and it scared the **** outame.
They are openly talking about permanent funding to enhance FNs commercial fishing in the ocean with no investment justifications for the taxpayers’ money or the oversight process.
 
Looked at some of the chapters in the Action Plan document and it scared the **** outame.
They are openly talking about permanent funding to enhance FNs commercial fishing in the ocean with no investment justifications for the taxpayers’ money or the oversight process.

Unbelievable.

But believable.

The best we might hope for is an additional salmon stamp to buy our fish from FN.

What a country.
 
Can't say I believe any of the parties are in there for the little guy or for protecting wild salmon - or that any of them are immune to corruption and scandal.

However, the assumption that by voting Conservative - is the best choice to preserve fish and fishing opportunity - is simply naive to the point of delusional and flies in the face of the history of the terrible things the Harper regime accomplished: systematically dismantling all the Acts and checks and balances that protected salmon and habitat through undemocratic omnibus bills. Harper and the Conservatives dismantled the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, the Navigable Waters Act, the Ports Act, and numerous others. Here's but a brief sampling of that history:

https://canadians.org/node/3471
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/08/10/Harper-Abuses-of-Power-Final/
https://below2c.org/2015/01/stephen-harper-is-the-worst-prime-minister-in-my-lifetime/
https://lietracker.ca/2019/01/20/war-on-democracy-and-science-with-stephen-harper/
http://behindthenumbers.ca/2011/04/27/harpers-attack-on-democracy-itemized-by-lawrence-martin/
http://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2015/10/greed-and-destruction-real-legacy-stephen-harper

So - I don't see where Harper's puppet would be any better; nor boy-blunder Trudeau neither.

As others have stated: the best option is a minority government at the moment.

False. A liberal minority would still have idiot Wilkinson at fisheries. Conservatives won’t get a majority this election. A conservative minority would be ideal. Vote conservative.
 
False. A liberal minority would still have idiot Wilkinson at fisheries. Conservatives won’t get a majority this election. A conservative minority would be ideal. Vote conservative.
Actually whomever is the Fisheries Minister always seems to be an idiot - regardless of what party is in power or whatever people think the Minister's potential is.

I remember all the nice things said about David Anderson - and about how it was "time that a Fisheries Minister from the West Coast was in that position" - everyone was saying at the time.

I also remember Tom Siddon, Bernard Valcourt, John Crosbie (all Conservatives); Brian Tobin, Fred Mifflin, David Anderson, & Herb Dhaliwal (all Liberals). I can't say anyone seemed much better than the last - with the exception of maybe Brian Tobin who was a liberal. He cut the Spanish nets and brought one on a barge to Europe.

And Gail Shea (a Conservative) was about the worst I've ever seen or had to live through - as was the whole Harper regime. I hope I never have to do that again - live through another Harper regime.

I think you confuse party affiliation with administration - 2 very different things - and really - parties are inherently undemocratic anyways. The cabinet is but a fast track to a life-long pension for party sycophants who support the latest tyrant in waiting. Just a figurehead job with a signature on a rubber stamp.
 
Another blanket statement from special interest groups and the supporting media. And of course nobody talks about some areas of Alaska that had some of the best sockeye runs this year.
 
ya - but South of AK the sockeye runs were largely a disaster this year...
 
Yes but some sockeye migrate differently. Maybe that stream in Alaska they take off right away and don't stay in the system.

Ok let's look at sockeye then. Does anyone know a side by side comparison of a sockeye that goes out to sea right away vs a sockeye that stays in the system one or two years. If there is big variation that screams habitat and predator. Also if we go backwards these fish from this run would be right in the time of the warm water blob. I don't know why we keep assuming we won't see an effect from this.

Sorry derailing...
 
Think you hit one of the problems spot-on, SV. pinks and excessive stock enhancement.

The other one on the slightly earlier post - ocean production & capacity - is arguably even a bigger issue.

Yes - different sockeye stocks can and do rear in a slightly different area of the Pacific - and the plankton blooms are spotty - and dependent upon both temps and nutrients.

It's concerning in that it is slightly cooler water temps (less than 7 oC or so) and upwelling gives high nutrient cooler-water plankton assemblages - and - those conditions are getting less frequent and in a much smaller areas of the Pacific.

But as you say - don't want to derail this thread, neither, so...

back to politics and salmon....
 
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