SpringVelocity
Crew Member
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In the Vancouver-Sunshine Coast area there has been an explosion of recreational prawning in the last 20 years. There are days I estimate there are easily 300 or more traps prawning with sport sized mesh in the dead of winter—-in a Saturday and Sunday. When the spring weather hits....possibly many more. Never mind the ones I don’t see. Now that boats are bigger and electric pullers are more popular and readily available...participation is up..way up.
Personally, prawns are great...love ‘em. For how much I get out it sucks that I get 100.... but hey... go with 2 buddies and 300 prawns makes for a great feast! Add the Dungeness and Chinook and I have no complaints!
Thanks @SpringVelocity I appreciate you taking the time to post this here, so us no FaceBookers can have a read too. I wish all the minutes of all the working groups were posted on line, with at least links here, on SFBC to their home sites. It would make it easy for everyone to know when new info was released and keep up to speed with what is going on.I posted this up on our SFAB Area 17 Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/NanaimoSFAC/, and circulated out by email . Please see the response from the SFAB sent to the DFO regarding potential shellfish management changes for 2019 ( Prawns, Crabs, Oysters and Crabs).
All of the pages are there, and see key points. Pay close attention to the Prawning section.
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I fully agree all the points that you require to hit DFO with are laid out in the SFAB letter...
I'll dig out some info as to were to send the letters or Cuba libra can u ?
Respectfully Derby,Its all available on the SFAC/SFAB thread...
Respectfully Derby,
Yes there are current minutes from last years meetings posted there, but this is new (much appreciated by me) and only contains last years meetings. This is the first time I have seen any formal position from the SFAC /SFAB posted anywhere. I have been trying for the last couple of years to get up to speed with what is happening with /to our sport, and it's been really hard to become informed. Yes there is the SFIBC, and now there is an excellent link to the SRKW issue on the main page. But until recently, if you wanted to find what they are working on; you had to (and still do if you want to know about more than SRKW) click on the about us link to find the issues tab. Try googling value of sports fishing in BC. I Get some useful stuff from the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC, a bunch of useless links DFO sites, and nothing from the SFIBC, or the Pacfic Salmon Foundation (where you have to know the name of document you want to search)
So once again I really appreciate that minutes and letters from the SFAC/SFAB are being posted here. I would LOVE for all the other groups to do the same. A midterm report from each group between meeting would be nice too. I don't post this to slag the people who are doing the work and taking the time to go to the meetings. But not everyone can be involved in those ways, and I think that the lack of easy to find information is not helping organize all the different fractions and upset people become more in line with the best interests of everyone
Thank you and the others for doing this. I would still like to see the minutes from a SVIAC and the SFIBC posted here, how about something from BCWWF or any of the other groups doing good work on our behalf.Yup.... I hear..as there is no paid person at this time to do it ..it falls to a few of us to gather it all up and thank u to SFBC to allow us to post what we have up..... We can only post up what is considered public documents .. ..
This is the email list of most of those in DFO Pacific who have responsibility for at least some aspects of our recreational shellfish harvesting. If you are sending an email to express your concern about how we are being treated-- please make reference to the SFAB paper. The Minister should receive a snail mail as well as electronic. And importantly, request a reply so they have to respond-- otherwise your letter will most likely get deleted after reaading.
The Honorable Johnathan Wilkinson, Minister of Fisheries and Canadian Coast Guard,
< Min@dfo-mpo.gc.ca >
Minister’s Office
200 Kent Street
Station 15N100
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0E6
Rebecca.Reid@dfo-mpo.gc.ca ( Regional Director-General)
Laura.Brown@dfo-mpo.gc.ca ( Director, South Coast)
Colin.Masson@dfo-mpo.gc.ca (Director, North Coast )
Jeff.Johansen@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Regional Shellfish Manager
Andy.Thompson@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Neil.Davis@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Jeff.Grout@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Brad.Breith@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Carole.Eros@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Stephen.Groves@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Juanita.Groves@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
John.Webb@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
This is the email list of most of those in DFO Pacific who have responsibility for at least some aspects of our recreational shellfish harvesting. If you are sending an email to express your concern about how we are being treated-- please make reference to the SFAB paper. The Minister should receive a snail mail as well as electronic. And importantly, request a reply so they have to respond-- otherwise your letter will most likely get deleted after reaading.
The Honorable Johnathan Wilkinson, Minister of Fisheries and Canadian Coast Guard,
< Min@dfo-mpo.gc.ca >
Minister’s Office
200 Kent Street
Station 15N100
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0E6
Rebecca.Reid@dfo-mpo.gc.ca ( Regional Director-General)
Laura.Brown@dfo-mpo.gc.ca ( Director, South Coast)
Colin.Masson@dfo-mpo.gc.ca (Director, North Coast )
Jeff.Johansen@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Regional Shellfish Manager
Andy.Thompson@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Neil.Davis@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Jeff.Grout@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Brad.Breith@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Carole.Eros@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Stephen.Groves@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Juanita.Groves@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
John.Webb@dfo-mpo.gc.ca