Draconian Fisheries Closures

[kolofardos]

DFO just posted the closure at 5 PM. No fishing this weekend for me

[Jack Russell]

Early springs start running in March in the fraser

Chinooks used to run up the Fraser almost ALL year round!

[Ride Red]

Chinooks used to run up the Fraser almost ALL year round!

From early spring reds to late fall whites. I’ve landed them both into the low 40lb range on the Fraser and even bigger with the old Harrison river whites. Sure miss those days.

[dakoda62]

What else did you expect, low browed mouth breathing troglodytes in Ottawa and Victoria, couldn't describe a salmon let alone ever seen one, Years of mismanagement cowtowing to special interest groups.

[Edward Teach]

We were told nearly 30 years ago that access to fish was going to be given in lieu of land claims wherever possible. It was quite clear then that if you have the wrong skin colour, then access to salmon fishing in your future was going to be diminished.

[Ride Red]

We were told nearly 30 years ago that access to fish was going to be given in lieu of land claims wherever possible. It was quite clear then that if you have the wrong skin colour, then access to salmon fishing in your future was going to be diminished.

Still doesn’t make the blatant mismanagement right no matter what the terms.

[Edward Teach]

Still doesn’t make the blatant mismanagement right no matter what the terms.

Oh I agree.
The DFO has done to salmon fishing what they did to East Coast cod...almost exactly. It's as if they planned it.
But I'm pretty certain the truth is they couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.

[ratherbefishin]

If we are ever to see the salmon return to historic numbers,we have to change the whole mindset from apportioning out ever smaller numbers,quite frankly it doesn’t matter who or what prevents salmon from spawning , a seiner net,a commercial troller ,a sports fisherman, FN net across a river ,a seal or sea lion, .clogged stream,dam,low water - it DOESN’T matter....and until the Government recognizes that, pretty soon there will BE no salmon to fight about .....I hate to even think about it, but the stark reality is ,it’s over.....the only chance we have is to manage our own salmon resource,right here in British Columbia....because if you think someone sitting at a desk 2500 miles away in Ottawa even understands much less cares,you are deluding yourself...case in point,several years ago Goldstream was choked out with chums and they had to weir off the river to prevent more salmon to enter the river and destroy the redds ...they requested permission to harvest n the huge schools of salmon milling about the river mouth, unable to enter.By the time DFO ‘studied’ it,discussed it and finally approved it, the fish had long since died...

[Ride Red]

If we are ever to see the salmon return to historic numbers,we have to change the whole mindset from apportioning out ever smaller numbers,quite frankly it doesn’t matter who or what prevents salmon from spawning , a seiner net,a commercial troller ,a sports fisherman, FN net across a river ,a seal or sea lion, .clogged stream,dam,low water - it DOESN’T matter....and until the Government recognizes that, pretty soon there will BE no salmon to fight about .....I hate to even think about it, but the stark reality is ,it’s over.....the only chance we have is to manage our own salmon resource,right here in British Columbia....because if you think someone sitting at a desk 2500 miles away in Ottawa even understands much less cares,you are deluding yourself...case in point,several years ago Goldstream was choked out with chums and they had to weir off the river to prevent more salmon to enter the river and destroy the redds ...they requested permission to harvest n the huge schools of salmon unable to enter the river....by the time DFO finally approved it, the fish had long since died...

Yes and “ALL” stakeholders needs to be on the same page.

[ratherbefishin]

Everybody wants their of slice of the pie but the pie is shrinking The irony of it is if we DON’T get on the same page there’ll be nothing left to fight about