Skeena Shut Down

[IronNoggin]

FN0495-RECREATIONAL - Chinook Salmon - Region 6 - Recreational fishing for Chinook - Closed - Effective Immediately

Effective May 24th, 2022 at 00:01 hours through March 31, 2023, recreational fishing for Chinook salmon will be closed on the Skeena River watershed and all rivers and lakes in Region 6 flowing into PFMAs 3 to 6, not including the Kitimat River and Nass River watersheds.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Fishery Notices

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca

 

[Whitebuck]

Great now we get to play bumper boats on the Kitimat next two months.


Imagine the Skeena actually stayed closed for all user groups and this closure was really about conservation.

 

[IronNoggin]

This closure is being sold under the guise of conservation, and were ALL user groups were to be shut down for a spell that might be believable.

But they are not.

So in reality this closure isn't so much about "conservation" as it as allowing one sector to continue netting stocks that are depleted, with the distinct possibility of that trend getting worse. Much worse that is...

Nog

 

[Whitebuck]

Its the same ******** line that Vancouver area anglers are shutdown to preserve endangered Fraser Chinook.

The facts remain these anglers have a .002% chance of catching one of the endangered Fraser stocks.


Yet DFO still allows netting which directly and only targets these fish.


With the amount of hatchery fish within the SOG and off the Westcoast there is more than enough to supplement these groups rather than targeting stocks that are on the brink of extinction.

There is a better way....but the clueless general public just buys into DFOs unscientifical false agenda while communities and our economy suffer.

 

[steeler]

Its the same ******** line that Vancouver area anglers are shutdown to preserve endangered Fraser Chinook.

The facts remain these anglers have a .002% chance of catching one of the endangered Fraser stocks.


Yet DFO still allows netting which directly and only targets these fish.


With the amount of hatchery fish within the SOG and off the Westcoast there is more than enough to supplement these groups rather than targeting stocks that are on the brink of extinction.

There is a better way....but the clueless general public just buys into DFOs unscientifical false agenda while communities and our economy suffer.

DFO seems only concerned with maintaining their own jobs and keeping themselves protected in their phony positions rather than protecting the environment or economy. The upper level managers make decisions based on their own interests ie keeping their positions and don't respect the scientists that work for the department. They have spent so long focused on protecting and sheltering economic interests such as salmon farms and commercial fisheries that they are clueless how to actually manage anything except blowing budgets on useless studies and expense accounts. Now they have a new group to shelter and pander to or risk losing their positions and expense accounts and that is first nations. After ignoring and disrespecting first nations rights and titles for years they now see the writing on the wall and that is fish stocks are tanking and first nations are the first in line to get the fish they are entitled to. The reality is first nations are getting the rights they were always entitled to now and that isn't because of any kind of serious change of heart from managers its because society is acknowledging that they have gotten the short end of the stick for years and they deserve the right to be more involved with decisions and allocations. The reasons however for giving allocations to first nations whether its fishing or logging is to use their consent as free reign to continue with the extractive policies which have gotten us into the situations we are in today with less than 2% of productive old growth left and probably less than 1% of historical salmon stocks coast wide if not less. Every shady thing done from directly targeting at risk stocks to leaving ghost nets in rivers or not recording steelhead mortality is directly the fault of dfo and the province for not doing anything to stop it. If white folks felt as if they would not have repercussions for their actions i would hate to see the state we would be in now.

 

[agentaqua]

Skeena Fishers Told To Stand Down By DFO While Alaska Increases Its Chinook Catch

The bad news dropped the day after the long weekend and hit local Skeena fishermen like a Hecate squall. For the second time in as many years DFO announced the closure of the Skeena River recreational Chinook fishery.

www.theskeena.com

 

[wildmanyeah]

Skeena Fishers Told To Stand Down By DFO While Alaska Increases Its Chinook Catch

The bad news dropped the day after the long weekend and hit local Skeena fishermen like a Hecate squall. For the second time in as many years DFO announced the closure of the Skeena River recreational Chinook fishery.

www.theskeena.com

If i recall correctly there is wording in the treaty that allows them to harvest more if we harvest less. It was put in In part to get them to agree to take a 7.5% reduction as part of the 2019 negotiations but whos laughing now.