It’s not acoustic equipment. It’s a net pen used to store salmon before they are lifted out.They are pulling a damaged acoustic receiver out of the river.
Could be the only thing holding up that side from falling in like the other side did already.As the water drops the more debris on the blast side will create more of a funnel. They need to be blasting the other side as well.
This among many other reasons is why I don’t have much faith in this team of experts.
What are you doing right now at Big Bar to assist?Simply more Lies and Mistruths to the general public for the appearance they are Saviors to the plight of the Salmon.
Sickening really.
Seems more like a FN appeasement press conference.
- Dead salmon are very common on the Fraser along the gravel bars this time of year.
-“FN have decided not to fish up and down the coast for conservation”
https://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fraserriver/firstnations/HTMLs/CeremonialOpeningTimes.html
https://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/...ns/HTMLs/CeremonialOpeningTimes_Previous.html
- Why is the sonar Above the slide being taken down when there is only a moderate bump of water?
- There is calm areas above the slide why is the sonar not being properly installed and tied down in those areas?
- Why is this all of a sudden called a complete blockage when water levels have been pretty stable the last few weeks or so?
- Why are the numbers of fish migrating passed the slide not being given out?
https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/report...7&prm1=46&y1Max=&y1Min=&prm2=47&y2Max=&y2Min=
-“ runs of salmon circling around below the slide “
If there was complete runs of of salmon or 5k of springs and sockeye it would be spotted out from the drones instantly.
-Why isn’t the FN leadership holding DFO accountable for not finding out about this slide until 7months after the fact?
-If this a natural disaster why are more(army) helicopters not being flown into the area to help drop more boulders to create a break in the flow?
- With the timeline that these salmon are facing why isn't all resources being used, regardless of the cost!
This press conference has all the signs of a salmon closure coming. 41 minutes of ******** from Wilkinson.
Once again too little to late from DFO
When and if these efforts fail, who is to blame DFO or the FN leadership panel?
Calm areas are not necessarily great acoustic sites. Before the slide those areas immediately above the slide (like French Bar) could have probably been good. However, after the slide, it backed up the water more where it almost resembles a lake. In those situations, Sockeye can potentially migrate further away from the banks because the flow is reduced. The Fraser River is very wide enough to begin with, but even more in that area immediately above the slide now. With salmon potentially moving further away from the banks that makes it more difficult to detect and count fish with the sonars being used. After a certain distance, sonars will switch to lower frequency with signal return weakening the further you go out. You may see fish at 60m but probably not very good. The water is also deeper making it difficult to ensonify the water column and be confident you are not missing fish.Seems more like a FN appeasement press conference.
- Dead salmon are very common on the Fraser along the gravel bars this time of year.
-“FN have decided not to fish up and down the coast for conservation”
https://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fraserriver/firstnations/HTMLs/CeremonialOpeningTimes.html
https://www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/...ns/HTMLs/CeremonialOpeningTimes_Previous.html
- Why is the sonar Above the slide being taken down when there is only a moderate bump of water?
- There is calm areas above the slide why is the sonar not being properly installed and tied down in those areas?
- Why is this all of a sudden called a complete blockage when water levels have been pretty stable the last few weeks or so?
- Why are the numbers of fish migrating passed the slide not being given out?
https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/report...7&prm1=46&y1Max=&y1Min=&prm2=47&y2Max=&y2Min=
-“ runs of salmon circling around below the slide “
If there was complete runs of of salmon or 5k of springs and sockeye it would be spotted out from the drones instantly.
-Why isn’t the FN leadership holding DFO accountable for not finding out about this slide until 7months after the fact?
-If this a natural disaster why are more(army) helicopters not being flown into the area to help drop more boulders to create a break in the flow?
- With the timeline that these salmon are facing why isn't all resources being used, regardless of the cost!
This press conference has all the signs of a salmon closure coming. 41 minutes of ******** from Wilkinson.
Once again too little to late from DFO
When and if these efforts fail, who is to blame DFO or the FN leadership panel?
I was told that 650 chinook were estimated to have gotten by the slide prior to the Chilcotin flood.or how about the early chinook runs, it's been reported that this is a total blockage does that mean they are still still sitting there from May, June and July?
Close Fraser River to all fishing while assessing rockslide, Musqueam say
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/close-...le-assessing-rockslide-musqueam-say-1.4542244
What are you doing right now at Big Bar to assist?
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• 44 Sockeye and 36 Chinook salmon have been tagged and transported upstream of the landslide, which allows fish biologists to monitor upstream movement of salmon.
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/p.../update_big_bar_landslide_incident_aug_11.pdf
Thanks for these updates GLG. Not sure if I read an earlier post correctly, when it said to date none of these radio tagged fish had been detected by hydroacoustic equipment upstream of the slide. Can anyone respond to this question?