wildmanyeah
Crew Member
Here was my response
The letter actually provides nothing new. What the letter does well is it makes people feel guilty for fishing for a chinook. To that end I would say the department has been very successful as there is almost no recreational boats out for C&R and the industry has been completely devastated. For the last 2 months an abundance of american hatchery fish have been swimming through our local waters. Fish that we should have access to as those fish were negotiated for in the PST, instead we cannot even retain a hatchery fish.
The closure announced by the Minister on April 16 is not good fisheries management.
It was a political decision not based on sound management practices taking into consideration specific stocks of concern, and allowing non endangered stocks to still be caught. Closing everything was an easy way out that bowed down to first Nations pressure and arm chair environmentalists. As a DFO Salmon Management biologist I would be disappointed in the action taken. This restriction will do nothing for the protection of those endangered Chinook stocks and is only optics for political gain. Senior DFO Directors that are to be Public servants did not do their job and in this case and acted as political pawns. Very disappointed!!
That being said it does state:
"An assessment of the effectiveness of these management measures will be completed in the post-season. For the management units that have coded wire tag (CWT) indicators, Canadian fishery mortalities will be used to assess performance against the management objectives. However, current CWT indicators are not available to project fishery mortalities for the Spring 52 and Summer 52 Chinook. As a result, information on run timing, historic CWT recoveries, and genetic stock identification was used to implement measures in times/areas where these stocks may be encountered. A planned Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS) review of the available information to quantify impacts of commercial, recreational and First Nations fisheries on Fraser Chinook, including Spring 42, Spring 52 and Summer 52 Chinook, is planned for review in July 2019, which is anticipated to provide a methodology that can be used to assist with assessing the fishery impacts for these stocks in the post-season. "
Can we be provided the assessment results at the fall or spring SFAC meeting
Thanks
The letter actually provides nothing new. What the letter does well is it makes people feel guilty for fishing for a chinook. To that end I would say the department has been very successful as there is almost no recreational boats out for C&R and the industry has been completely devastated. For the last 2 months an abundance of american hatchery fish have been swimming through our local waters. Fish that we should have access to as those fish were negotiated for in the PST, instead we cannot even retain a hatchery fish.
The closure announced by the Minister on April 16 is not good fisheries management.
It was a political decision not based on sound management practices taking into consideration specific stocks of concern, and allowing non endangered stocks to still be caught. Closing everything was an easy way out that bowed down to first Nations pressure and arm chair environmentalists. As a DFO Salmon Management biologist I would be disappointed in the action taken. This restriction will do nothing for the protection of those endangered Chinook stocks and is only optics for political gain. Senior DFO Directors that are to be Public servants did not do their job and in this case and acted as political pawns. Very disappointed!!
That being said it does state:
"An assessment of the effectiveness of these management measures will be completed in the post-season. For the management units that have coded wire tag (CWT) indicators, Canadian fishery mortalities will be used to assess performance against the management objectives. However, current CWT indicators are not available to project fishery mortalities for the Spring 52 and Summer 52 Chinook. As a result, information on run timing, historic CWT recoveries, and genetic stock identification was used to implement measures in times/areas where these stocks may be encountered. A planned Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS) review of the available information to quantify impacts of commercial, recreational and First Nations fisheries on Fraser Chinook, including Spring 42, Spring 52 and Summer 52 Chinook, is planned for review in July 2019, which is anticipated to provide a methodology that can be used to assist with assessing the fishery impacts for these stocks in the post-season. "
Can we be provided the assessment results at the fall or spring SFAC meeting
Thanks
