totally tyee
Active Member
Well folks, I was sitting here doing some thinking about the never endeing BAD NEWS that we keep hearing over and over again about our precious west coast salmon stocks.
With so many stakeholders such as the commercial fishing industry, the sport fishing industry, the native fisheries, and several others there is a constant pounding on the fish stocks. Not to mention the terrible weather that is washing out the reds in the rivers.
I thought I would pose a question to you guys. I know there are so many other factors that contribute much more to the demise of the stocks but for the purpose of answering this question lets just think about the sportfishing aspect of things. And lets just pick Chinook and focus on them.
Lets face it, our precious salmon stocks aren't doing so well.
Which of the following options would you support as sportfishers to help sustain and/or re-build our salmon stocks?
A) Close the winter spring fishery until stocks can improve
B) Go back to the 1 under / 1 over rule
C) Close all retention in and near Chinook spawning rivers
D) Lower day and poss. limits to 1 and 2
E) No retention of Chinooks for 1 year (similar to previous coho)
F) No change, everything is fine
What do you guys think? hopefully this can spark some discussion over these sad winter months.
TT
With so many stakeholders such as the commercial fishing industry, the sport fishing industry, the native fisheries, and several others there is a constant pounding on the fish stocks. Not to mention the terrible weather that is washing out the reds in the rivers.
I thought I would pose a question to you guys. I know there are so many other factors that contribute much more to the demise of the stocks but for the purpose of answering this question lets just think about the sportfishing aspect of things. And lets just pick Chinook and focus on them.
Lets face it, our precious salmon stocks aren't doing so well.
Which of the following options would you support as sportfishers to help sustain and/or re-build our salmon stocks?
A) Close the winter spring fishery until stocks can improve
B) Go back to the 1 under / 1 over rule
C) Close all retention in and near Chinook spawning rivers
D) Lower day and poss. limits to 1 and 2
E) No retention of Chinooks for 1 year (similar to previous coho)
F) No change, everything is fine
What do you guys think? hopefully this can spark some discussion over these sad winter months.
TT