When Will it Stop?

[Monkey]

The Green Party of Canada Calls for Immediate Moratorium on Herring Fishery

OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada is condemning the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) for its reckless decision to increase the Pacific herring harvest rate, despite clear warnings from First Nations and scientists that herring stocks are in dire decline. “This decision is a complete...

www.greenparty.ca

 

[Monkey]

PS I am not a Green but the herring fishery must stop.

 

[kaelc]

Is there any harvesting in the WSÁNEČ territory? I was opposed to the harvesting but friends with biology degrees, invovled in commercial fishing for decades including the Pacific Halibut Commission, who know a lot more than me, support it.

 

[Monkey]

Voice your opposition of B.C.'s unsustainable herring fishery

The most effective way to help Pacific herring is to write to your local representatives and Fisheries Minister, Diane Lebouthillier, telling them that you support an immediate moratorium and movement towards an ecosystem-based approach to management of the herring fishery. This would allow...

pacificwild.org

 

[wildmanyeah]

could you guys wait till attest February for the herring debate lol

 

[Capt_Ed]

could you guys wait till attest February for the herring debate lol

And maybe get educated before you comment. Thx

 

[wildmanyeah]

And maybe get educated before you comment. Thx

same posts every year by the ENGO's at this time donate

It was in the IFMP back in November, it was in the draft well before that its been historically 20% harvest rate, last year they dropped it down to 10% this year they settled on max harvest rate 14% in the SOG.

https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/library-bibliotheque/41274672.pdf

"SOG: FSC, Food and Bait, Special Use, and Roe herring opportunities (14% harvest rate) to a maximum of 12,787 tons. Assessment information for the Strait of Georgia is presented using the updated SISCAH modelling framework. Spawning biomass for 2025 is forecast to be 91,051tons and above the LRP and USR reference points. Based on a management procedure tuned to meet the conversative objective of maintaining the stock above the LRP with a high degree(>75%) degree of certainty, harvest rates of up to 14% will achieve this objective over the 15 year simulation period"

 

[kingblazer84]

@Admin need to move this to another area of the forum

 

[SpringVelocity]

same posts every year by the ENGO's at this time donate

It was in the IFMP back in November, it was in the draft well before that its been historically 20% harvest rate, last year they dropped it down to 10% this year they settled on max harvest rate 14% in the SOG.

https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/library-bibliotheque/41274672.pdf

"SOG: FSC, Food and Bait, Special Use, and Roe herring opportunities (14% harvest rate) to a maximum of 12,787 tons. Assessment information for the Strait of Georgia is presented using the updated SISCAH modelling framework. Spawning biomass for 2025 is forecast to be 91,051tons and above the LRP and USR reference points. Based on a management procedure tuned to meet the conversative objective of maintaining the stock above the LRP with a high degree(>75%) degree of certainty, harvest rates of up to 14% will achieve this objective over the 15 year simulation period"

Spot on.

 

[Fishing?]

Didn't FF's admit they were killing around 800,000 herring every year at just one FF?

 

[kaelc]

Maybe we should protest the herring fishery? They are only catching them for the roe to send to Asia.
[/QUOTE]

Jesus. I think these are important debates to have, but I personally trust the world-class biologists who work in commercial fishing and with First Nations, who I've known for decades. Common sense is a "politician slogan" you can see being used to ignore doing what is right.

 

[Haverodwilltravel]

PS I am not a Green but the herring fishery must stop.

Me neither. Maybe we should do a protest?

 

[Hardy Guy]

Sog herring is the least of our concerns or at the most ... near the bottom.

 

[Haverodwilltravel]

Sog herring is the least of our concerns or at the most ... near the bottom.

Really?
What’s worse, please?

 

[Hardy Guy]

Killer whale closures, mmpa closures, FN closures, mass mark fishery, river habitat, water extraction, climate change, anti catch and release, good stock assessment data ..... list goes on and on.

Fishing SOG herring well below the CSAS approved percentage, well monitored population and spawning survey make it a well managed fishery.

 

[Hardy Guy]

In river poaching, ENGO closure requests, salmon allocation, halibut allocation, reduced prawn access, crab access ..... even Rain Cities salmon catching abilities are more of a concern..... I'm sure I can come up with more.

As stated read the IFMP and the stock status reports from the last 20 years and see what you determine.

 

[Hardy Guy]

I forgot predation by pinipeds ....

 

[Haverodwilltravel]

I forgot predation by pinipeds ....

Very brilliant and insightful.

 

[Derby]

Me neither. Maybe we should do a protest?

Maybe take some time to read the Herring IFMP to actually understand herring and what they are actually doing...

 

[mbowers]

I forgot predation by pinipeds ....

Pink salmon ocean ranching