Victoria Halibut meeting - Sheraton, Jan 12th @ 7pm

[Deewar25]

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL SPORTS ANGLERS

The totally inadequate, biased and unfair allocation system in place for Canada’s Pacific halibut is about to create a short season disaster for local anglers. Come on out to hear the facts at the Victoria Town Hall meeting on Wednesday 12th January 2011 at 7:00PM (In the West Shore Ballroom of the Four Points Sheraton Hotel, 829 McCallum Road, Langford - behind Costco). Join us to find out what you can do about it. Halibut is the concern today, but other species (salmon, groundfish, crabs and prawns) are scheduled for the same treatment by Fisheries and Oceans…. We all need to send a very strong message to the authorities immediately that this is unacceptable.

Guest speakers will outline the issue, a panel representing several segments of the public fishery will give their perspectives and there will be an open mike session, where you can ask questions and offer your comments.

Come on out and join us, bring a friend, this may be the most important contribution you make to the future of fishing for all of us.

EITHER WE STAND UP NOW
OR BE STOOD UPON FOREVER!


Chris Bos
Southern Vancouver Island Anglers Coalition
(250) 652-4141
C.Bos@shaw.ca

 

[wolf]

Anyone from sooke who wants to go let me know and ill drive in so no excuses....

Lets be heard

Wolf

 

[Karma-Kazi]

I will be there and will try to bring a few friends! This will be my first meeting and not my last.

-STeve

 

[bryce]

I should be there will try to talk a few buddies into it

 

[Lipripper]

Being a family guy.............I will be eating the bday dinner.........


Good luck guys............. fill 'er up

 

[Deewar25]

bump - sure hope more people turn out than the apparent 'response' so far. I would venture a guess from the gravity of the message from Chris that the SVI proposals (ie stanyer) fell on deaf ears and we are back to the drawing board.

 

[Karma-Kazi]

So far ive got 4 coming! I will work on getting more!!! Lets do this guys. We gotta fight for this. Letting them manipulate us is not an option!

-Steve

 

[Deewar25]

Was wondering if anyone with good writing skills and a good understanding of the 88/12 would be willing to send a letter to the editor (TC)? That would be a good way of getting advertisement and acknowledgement for the upcoming meeting without paying for an ad (given the short notice). The key obviously would be to state in such a way that we aren't just trying to bleed the stocks, but just trying to get a fair share of an abundant resource. I pulled these numbers off the IPHC - certainly find a way to incorporate?

From what I see as per IPHC, biomass has INCREASED from 2008 227million pounds to 275 million in 2009 to 334million pounds 2010 - infact, 1985 was 100m pounds...biomass has more than tripled since then

The key is full comprehension so to not get a backlash from those we are trying to get a share from! I only have the basics and likely wouldn't get the right message across.
letter can be sent to letters@timescolonist.com

I did talk to DC Reid about getting in a mention for the meeting, but he said deadlines would be cut too close and doubted he could get anything through with enough advance warning. This way, it could show up by the weekend (perhaps with a note in brackets for the editor saying the key reason for the letter is to alert the public of the meeting and to help understand the problem). The article yesterday didn't mention the Victoria meeting.

Anyone willing with good penmanship? Even better as a non-guide FWIW!

 

[Silver Streak]

There will be meeting notice ads in the local media for this meeting soon.
Other information notices aimed at the general public are also being
contemplated for the local media too.

 

[Deewar25]

There will be meeting notice ads in the local media for this meeting soon.
Other information notices aimed at the general public are also being
contemplated for the local media too.

well awesome! Good to hear and I don't think any SFAB meetings really had any public media exposure beyond word of mouth, so it's nice to see that at least the whole city has a chance to hear what is going on and how they can help and where they can attend. Cancel my prior request then :0)

 

[abl]

printed off copies of the notice that Chris e-mailed and have posted them at work in esquimalt. trying to get the word out to all the anglers in the yard to show up and support the issue

bruce

 

[Sushihunter]

Have you sent out press releases stating purpose, time and place?

This should get you some free publicity, and they may send reporters to the meeting.

 

[Little Hawk]

The SFAB needs a dedicated PR machine if it expects to put lots of pissed-off butts in seats at meetings.

If the Fed sees this as contrary to the intended purpose of what the SFAB was formed for in the first place, tough ****; they have brought this upon themselves through their own ignorance and outright absence of useful resource management skills.