Adler
Well-Known Member
This is now up on Facebook from SVIAC:
It's time - we need your support. SVIAC has partnered with the Public Fishery Alliance and Fraser River SportFishing Alliance to create a formal WRITTEN petition to deliver to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Joyce Murray. The petition calls on the department to implement Mass Marking and Marked Selective Salmon Fisheries immediately.
You will find this written petition at the PFA and SVIAC booth at the Victoria Outdoor Adventure Show 2023 this weekend, Friday - Sunday, at West Shore Parks and Recs in Colwood. You can also sign it in person at many of the major fishing retailers from Victoria to Nanaimo in the coming days.
The petition needs your full name, home address including POSTAL CODE, email and signature, and must be clearly legible. It can only be signed once (do not sign in multiple locations). We are aiming to have thousands of signatures in the coming weeks, so please share and tell your friends. Plans have already been made for the presentation of this petition in the House of Commons.
Please come out to the Show this weekend to sign the petition.
PETITION LANGUAGE
The petition is addressed to the Honourable Joyce Murray, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
Whereas:
• Anglers in British Columbia support conservation and the recovery of Fraser Chinook stocks of concern, as well as Southern Resident Killer Whales, by their selfless volunteer efforts in restoring salmon and donating millions of dollars to conservation annually;
• To avoid undue economic disruption and loss of angling and tourism opportunities, the economically and socially valuable public salmon fishery must have expectation and opportunity to catch and keep a fish as well predictable access to salmon with fishery announcements well in advance of any regulation changes;
• Current Chinook non-retention fishing regulations, where anglers cannot keep adipose-fin-clipped hatchery Chinook, run contrary to the department’s own Salmon Enhancement Program’s purpose of raising salmon specifically for fisheries;
• The well-funded, DFO led Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative intends harvest transformation and a move to mass marking (MM) by adipose-fin-clipping hatchery raised salmon as well as implementation of marked selective salmon fisheries (MSF) where appropriate;
• Exceedingly slow implementation of MM and MSF is causing the Southern BC angling community, businesses and small coastal communities’ economic disruption and unnecessary uncertainty;
• In Southern BC, for the fifth straight year, the public salmon fishery continues to be severely harmed by four key months of Chinook non-retention;
• As of April 24, 2023, your department failed to approve and open MSF opportunities proposed by your own Pacific staff, originally planned to start on April 1, 2023.
We call upon the Honourable Joyce Murray, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard to open all scientifically
defensible, data-supported, hatchery Chinook retention Opportunities immediately and expedite the implementation of the Mass Marking and Marked Selective Salmon Fisheries.
I've spoken with Chris and understand there are good reasons for doing hardcopy, handwritten petitions in the House of Commons versus electronic versions, at least at this stage. I expect the list of retailers where you can sign the petition will also be listed in the coming days.
It's time - we need your support. SVIAC has partnered with the Public Fishery Alliance and Fraser River SportFishing Alliance to create a formal WRITTEN petition to deliver to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Joyce Murray. The petition calls on the department to implement Mass Marking and Marked Selective Salmon Fisheries immediately.
You will find this written petition at the PFA and SVIAC booth at the Victoria Outdoor Adventure Show 2023 this weekend, Friday - Sunday, at West Shore Parks and Recs in Colwood. You can also sign it in person at many of the major fishing retailers from Victoria to Nanaimo in the coming days.
The petition needs your full name, home address including POSTAL CODE, email and signature, and must be clearly legible. It can only be signed once (do not sign in multiple locations). We are aiming to have thousands of signatures in the coming weeks, so please share and tell your friends. Plans have already been made for the presentation of this petition in the House of Commons.
Please come out to the Show this weekend to sign the petition.
PETITION LANGUAGE
The petition is addressed to the Honourable Joyce Murray, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
Whereas:
• Anglers in British Columbia support conservation and the recovery of Fraser Chinook stocks of concern, as well as Southern Resident Killer Whales, by their selfless volunteer efforts in restoring salmon and donating millions of dollars to conservation annually;
• To avoid undue economic disruption and loss of angling and tourism opportunities, the economically and socially valuable public salmon fishery must have expectation and opportunity to catch and keep a fish as well predictable access to salmon with fishery announcements well in advance of any regulation changes;
• Current Chinook non-retention fishing regulations, where anglers cannot keep adipose-fin-clipped hatchery Chinook, run contrary to the department’s own Salmon Enhancement Program’s purpose of raising salmon specifically for fisheries;
• The well-funded, DFO led Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative intends harvest transformation and a move to mass marking (MM) by adipose-fin-clipping hatchery raised salmon as well as implementation of marked selective salmon fisheries (MSF) where appropriate;
• Exceedingly slow implementation of MM and MSF is causing the Southern BC angling community, businesses and small coastal communities’ economic disruption and unnecessary uncertainty;
• In Southern BC, for the fifth straight year, the public salmon fishery continues to be severely harmed by four key months of Chinook non-retention;
• As of April 24, 2023, your department failed to approve and open MSF opportunities proposed by your own Pacific staff, originally planned to start on April 1, 2023.
We call upon the Honourable Joyce Murray, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard to open all scientifically
defensible, data-supported, hatchery Chinook retention Opportunities immediately and expedite the implementation of the Mass Marking and Marked Selective Salmon Fisheries.
I've spoken with Chris and understand there are good reasons for doing hardcopy, handwritten petitions in the House of Commons versus electronic versions, at least at this stage. I expect the list of retailers where you can sign the petition will also be listed in the coming days.
