There is only one option- by Bob Hooton

[OldBlackDog]

There’s Only One Option

It’s crystal clear that the revered Thompson River steelhead are facing extirpation. The other stocks in that same Interior Fraser Steelhead (IFS) group have already been forgotten (i.e.writt…

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[wildmanyeah]

Once a species is listed under the Species at Risk Act, it becomes illegal to kill, harass, capture or harm it in any way.

Threats (direct, from highest impact to least, as per IUCN Threats Calculator)​

Was a threats calculator completed for this species? Yes.

1. Biological resource use (High)
   • Fishing and harvesting aquatic resources (H)
2. Natural system modifications (High)
   • Dams and water management/use (L)
   • Other ecosystem modifications (H)
3. Invasive and other problematic species and genes (High-medium)
   • Problematic native species/diseases (H-M)
4. Pollution (Medium)
   • Domestic and urban waste water (L)
   • Industrial and military effluents (L)
   • Agricultural and forestry effluents (M)
5. Geologic events (Low)
   • Avalanches/landslides

 

[Confused]

Once a species is listed under the Species at Risk Act, it becomes illegal to kill, harass, capture or harm it in any way.

Threats (direct, from highest impact to least, as per IUCN Threats Calculator)​

Was a threats calculator completed for this species? Yes.

1. Biological resource use (High)
   • Fishing and harvesting aquatic resources (H)
2. Natural system modifications (High)
   • Dams and water management/use (L)
   • Other ecosystem modifications (H)
3. Invasive and other problematic species and genes (High-medium)
   • Problematic native species/diseases (H-M)
4. Pollution (Medium)
   • Domestic and urban waste water (L)
   • Industrial and military effluents (L)
   • Agricultural and forestry effluents (M)
5. Geologic events (Low)
   • Avalanches/landslides

Yelloweye???? There are couple different levels of SARA I believe.....no?

 

[wildmanyeah]

Yelloweye???? There are couple different levels of SARA I believe.....no?

They were probably classified as threatened or endangered but guaranteed they were never listed.

Edit: its seems like they are listed as a special concern but how this how process was explained to me is that a listed would result in the above that i posted.

so not sure what the deal is with yelloweye

 

[wildmanyeah]

They were probably classified as threatened or endangered but guaranteed they were never listed.

Edit: its seems like they are listed as a special concern but how this how process was explained to me is that a listed would result in the above that i posted.

so not sure what the deal is with yelloweye

ah i figured it out yellow eye were listed as a special concerned., COSEWIC i believe has said this population of steelhead are "Endangered"

What i posted applies to

Killing, harming, etc., listed wildlife species

• 32 (1) No person shall kill, harm, harass, capture or take an individual of a wildlife species that is listed as an extirpated species, an endangered species or a threatened species.

 

[OldBlackDog]

From blog,

October 23, 2021 at 4:06 am
By all means Doug.
Those numbers are derived from extensive experience of the technical experts in the provincial government with the co-operation of the federal government staff. The raw data stems from the federal shop’s (DFO) chum salmon test fishery on the lower Fraser River at a location known as Albion (directly across the Fraser from Fort Langley) about 60 km upstream from the mouth. Steelhead catches in that fishery and the ultimate steelhead spawning populations measured in tributaries to the Thompson and Chilcotin rivers the following spring have been used, in combination, for decades to develop a predictive model that allows the in-season catches of steelhead to be used to forecast the spawning population the following spring. This year, with about 70% of the run of the two stocks past Albion by this time, the model predictions for Thompson and Chilcotin are 47 and 22 respectively. Since that last estimate was made there has not been a steelhead caught at the test fishery. That means the 47 and 22 will likely be reduced when the next predictive model outputs are available (likely Oct 25 or 26).
As with all modelling exercises, there are uncertainties. Those who deny the severity of the conservation crisis for Thompson and Chilcotin stocks typically claim there are more fish than the model estimates. To them I say go look at the in-season predictions over the past couple of decades and compare them with the spawning populations eventually measured the following spring. The two data sets are remarkably similar. I’ll add that test fisheries like those that are conducted by the federal government and it’s collaborators (e.g. the Pacific Salmon Commission) have been used to predict sockeye, pink, chinook and chum salmon abundance for as long or longer than has the Albion test fishery. Those results determine what fisheries will or won’t occur. If the numbers of any of those species dropped to within a couple of orders of magnitude of the abundance of our steelhead there would be red flags and alarm bells from Ottawa to Vancouver. Sadly, steelhead will never get the same recognition or action.
Hope this helps.