Nov. 24, 7-9pm Victoria & Area Local SFAB Committee Meeting

[Whole in the Water]

Are you interested in finding out what is happening to the management and regulations concerning sport fishing in our area? Do you want to have some input and ask questions about how our saltwater fisheries are managed? If so please come to this meeting.
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Our next Victoria and Area Local SFAB Committee meeting will be held at the Esquimalt Anglers Lounge, 1101 Munro Street, Victoria on Thursday November 24th at 7:00 p.m. We will be discussing important local fisheries issues from this past season and seeking guidance from the local angling community about their wishes and concerns regarding next year’s fisheries.

The draft meeting agenda will include updates, reports and discussions on the following topics:
- Fraser Chinook salmon management;
- Halibut fishing and regulations;
- Dungeness Crab allocation;
- SARA - Yellow Eye Rockfish Recovery Plan;
- South Coast and Main Board SFAB Meetings;
- Recreational Vision Implementation;
- Wild Salmon Policy;
- Pacific Salmon Treaty;
- Local Salmon Enhancement; and,
- Transportation of Fish.

The meeting is open to the public and we encourage you to invite others to attend. FYI - 1101 Munro Street is at the foot of Lampson Street in Esquimalt. I look forward to seeing you there.

Kindest regards,
Chris
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Christopher Bos
Victoria Committee Chair
(778) 426-4141
chris@anglerscoalition.com

 

[fish brain]

Could we have two or three weeks heads up about the next meeting?
I would like to have attended the meeting tonight, but unfortunately I will not be able to attend due to prior commitments

 

[ziggy]

Great to see an agenda posted, now if DFO could start publishing minutes from the various meetings....

 

[Derby]

Request the minutes from the meeting from your local sfab rep. he will be only happy to put you on his email distribution list...

 

[Whole in the Water]

So who is coming to this important meeting tonight?

 

[ziggy]

Request the minutes from the meeting from your local sfab rep. he will be only happy to put you on his email distribution list...

Thanks, will do that.Wouldn't it make more sense though to publish the minutes online rather than having the rep respond online to individual emails requesting them? Seems to me that would decrease the workload?

 

[gamechanger]

we are planning on doing that in the future through www.sfab.ca. Right now the Department has challenges doing that because of translation requirements for information that gets posted on their website.

 

[ziggy]

we are planning on doing that in the future through www.sfab.ca. Right now the Department has challenges doing that because of translation requirements for information that gets posted on their website.

Wow! That's pretty sad! I understand the Federal bilingual policy was to ensure all Canadians had access to information in either official language. Hard to believe it has now evolved into providing access in neither official language. Got to love bureaucrats! Lol

 

[profisher]

Fish Brian...its been posted since Nov 7th down in the thread for these such things...meetings, derbies etc.

 

[fish brain]

Fish Brian...its been posted since Nov 7th down in the thread for these such things...meetings, derbies etc.

shoot. I guess I missed it. Who can I contact for a copy of the minutes?

 

[profisher]

Chris Bos is the chair of the local committee. You can contact him through the SVIAC webite www.anglerscoalition.com

 

[Whole in the Water]

Had the local area SFAB meeting on Thursday night. Apart from the SFAB, DFO reps and SVIAC BOD members there were maybe 6-7 other people there. Considering the thousands of anglers that live in this area - pretty damn, sad attendance IMHO!

Local anglers have a chance to get regularly informed on important fisheries issues, to ask DFO staff questions, and pass motions to try to influence DFO management decisions and we get only a handful of people that show up???

The SFAB process is not perfect, but it is one of the few regular, public involvement processes we have into rec fisheries management and we need to use it as best we can to try to change things, or we can continue to not be involved and learn to accept the results of non-involvement in our fisheries management.

If we want things to change we have to work for change - that's what the other fishing sectors do and that is why the rec sector always gets the short end of the stick, My 2 bits.

 

[Derby]

Yup.... there should be more showing up...lots coming down the pipe with the slot stuff......