Whole in the Water
Well-Known Member
If you want to keep our Chinook fisheries open this summer and onwards please complete this survey.
Environmental groups are surveying people (mostly their supporters) to find out how people feel about closing down Chinook fisheries along the entire coast to provide more Chinook for endangered orcas.
These groups are pressuring the Fed Govt. hard to shut this fishery down! They may succeed if the rec fishing sector does not provide their input for a more balanced decision. Closing Chinook fishing is mostly only a optics measure and not a long term solution, as all the Chinook caught by the rec sector on the whole coast would only feed the orcas for 2-3 weeks at current populations and harvesting rates. We need to have a holistic solution that includes ways to increase the abundance of Chinook, not just fighting over a decreasing number of these fish.
Please consider completing this survey.
http://georgiastrait.org/2-minute-survey-for-orca-recovery-oat/
2 Minute Survey for Orca Recovery
georgiastrait.org
Coastal communities can play an integral role in guiding government decisions to turn the tides on the critical situation the southern resident killer whales are facing. We would like to learn more about the priorities you support in salmon recovery for the southern resident killer whales.
Environmental groups are surveying people (mostly their supporters) to find out how people feel about closing down Chinook fisheries along the entire coast to provide more Chinook for endangered orcas.
These groups are pressuring the Fed Govt. hard to shut this fishery down! They may succeed if the rec fishing sector does not provide their input for a more balanced decision. Closing Chinook fishing is mostly only a optics measure and not a long term solution, as all the Chinook caught by the rec sector on the whole coast would only feed the orcas for 2-3 weeks at current populations and harvesting rates. We need to have a holistic solution that includes ways to increase the abundance of Chinook, not just fighting over a decreasing number of these fish.
Please consider completing this survey.
http://georgiastrait.org/2-minute-survey-for-orca-recovery-oat/
2 Minute Survey for Orca Recovery
georgiastrait.org
Coastal communities can play an integral role in guiding government decisions to turn the tides on the critical situation the southern resident killer whales are facing. We would like to learn more about the priorities you support in salmon recovery for the southern resident killer whales.