searun
Well-Known Member
The 75th Boxing Day Derby on the Vedder was a bust - only 1 fish weighed in. Is this a sign of bad things to come with increasing predation and poor ocean survival? We witnessed how quickly the once mighty Gold River steelhead evaporated. There were no commercial nets, no FSC fishing, C&R for over a decade...and still they vanished.
Have our fisheries managers been spinning wheels and avoiding the inconvenient truth that in-river pinniped predation of both out-migrant smolts and returning adults is a major concern?
https://globalnews.ca/news/6353608/groups-sound-alarm-steelhead-annual-derby/
Have our fisheries managers been spinning wheels and avoiding the inconvenient truth that in-river pinniped predation of both out-migrant smolts and returning adults is a major concern?
https://globalnews.ca/news/6353608/groups-sound-alarm-steelhead-annual-derby/