OldBlackDog
Well-Known Member
Read it and weep. Whereas the announcement is anything but a surprise given that the stage had already been set by co-conspirator Fisheries Minister Wilkinson, we didn't need the twisting of the dagger already implanted between our shoulder blades.
The only thing I'd take issue with in the article is the continuing silence with respect to the fishery that is now doing the most harm - the lower Fraser gill net fisheries prosecuted by the long list of First Nations who target enhanced chum salmon, primarily for the eggs of the females.
It isn't the commercial fishermen who are "the winners" here, although they certainly aren't losers. The net fleets continue to be relatively constrained, especially what remains of the licensed gill net fleet. The FNs, on the other hand, will be fishing in the same times and places, with the same gear that has already pushed those revered Thompson and Chilcotin steelhead to the brink. Fish that may be saved from death in commercial fishing nets in the Fraser approaches are not going to make it to their spawning grounds as long as their migration corridor on the upstream side of the commercial fleet remains a continuous succession of indiscriminate gill nets.
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/catherine-mckenna-denies…/
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...8pwA6P_O561VWisikV3aht4VEKnFp7blwQIi9jWDhISGQ
The only thing I'd take issue with in the article is the continuing silence with respect to the fishery that is now doing the most harm - the lower Fraser gill net fisheries prosecuted by the long list of First Nations who target enhanced chum salmon, primarily for the eggs of the females.
It isn't the commercial fishermen who are "the winners" here, although they certainly aren't losers. The net fleets continue to be relatively constrained, especially what remains of the licensed gill net fleet. The FNs, on the other hand, will be fishing in the same times and places, with the same gear that has already pushed those revered Thompson and Chilcotin steelhead to the brink. Fish that may be saved from death in commercial fishing nets in the Fraser approaches are not going to make it to their spawning grounds as long as their migration corridor on the upstream side of the commercial fleet remains a continuous succession of indiscriminate gill nets.
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/catherine-mckenna-denies…/
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...8pwA6P_O561VWisikV3aht4VEKnFp7blwQIi9jWDhISGQ
