Liberal MPs Reject Study of Fishery Closure Impacts in British Columbia

[dmaxtech]

See that letter to the editor in the Times Colonist showing the ‘endangered’ orcas are actualy right in line with the typical population cycles over the last 60 years...non’crisis ‘of imminent extinction at all.....nor do the ‘sky falling’ people say anything about the NORTHERN resident orca population which is BOOMING.

Post a link for the article.

[IronNoggin]

What this man says in his letter has been well backed by science:

May 30: Fluctuations not a whale crisis

It’s time to stop perpetuating the myth that the population of southern resident killer whales has been “dramatically reduced.”

Whale census data compiled by the Centre for Whale Research shows numbers have been stable for the last 60 years, fluctuating between a low of 66 in 1973 and high of 98 in 1995. The last count, on Jan. 11, 2019, showed 75 members.

The organization has published annual numbers with modelled data from 1960 to 1972 and census data afterward.

That data shows no sign of statistically significant change in the southern resident killer whale population, and doesn’t show any dramatic reduction.

While I agree we should try to support our resident whales, let’s stop creating a fake crisis. There is no crisis.

Richard Lewanski
Sidney

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinio...sis-1.23838632

And once again, there you have it. ENGO's playing fast and rather loose with the truth, and their political lackeys swallowing their drivel hook line and sinker. "Crisis" created and BC fishermen targeted once again by the Sky-Is-Falling LIEberals...

Nog

[ratherbefishin]

So why has the panic button been pushed and the whole recreational Salmon industry shut down? Why was it done without at least looking at the facts?

[knothead]

Because it's easier for the Libs to shut it down than to get into endless debate, just like the new gun laws they don't give shite what the facts are they want to look to the radicle left that they are doing something positive for the movements that the left cares about. Their trying to buy the Vancouver vote just like the greens and the ndp did with the grizzly hunt closure.

[IronNoggin]

So why has the panic button been pushed and the whole recreational Salmon industry shut down? Why was it done without at least looking at the facts?

This is simply another example of failing of the current government.
Basically what you are witnessing is expropriation of the resource from two sectors in order to hand that over to their preferred one.
They are desperate to appease the FN's that they have pissed off by dumping their shining star (JWR) and a near complete failure to do anything of substance with the FN portfolio. In that vein, DFO has gone so far as to create an internal "Reconciliation & Planning Board", complete with offices, support staff and their own Director General.

Given that is the true focus of this program, they simply were not about to let a few annoying facts get in the way. So they were swiftly swept under the carpet while the Minister now continues with his lies suggesting "consultation" happened and that all were somehow onside with this bullshit.

Nog

[Walking Buffalo]

A new developing concern is that Grey whales are starving.

Likely because they have reached environmental capacity....

[IronNoggin]

A new developing concern is that Grey whales are starving.

Likely because they have reached environmental capacity....

Much more than likely. Their numbers are the highest ever recorded at this point.
Competition for them obviously sucks.

Another thing the media is failing to mention is that a good number of those found dead were simply very old.
As with any population, the elders do pass on.

Cheers,
Nog

[ratherbefishin]

The fact that ALL animals are born,live and die( including us) is missed by the naive public who think we have to ‘save’ everything.The public outrage over grizzly hunting resulting in closing the grizzly hunt is a prime example. The vast majority of grizzlies die of old age,starvation disease and accidents, not hunters bullets. The fact that gray whales are washing up dead on our beaches is a sign of a healthy population that has matured ,passed on their genetics and died,and their carcasses now supporting all manner of scavengers ....a dead whale on the beach is a big bonus for bears ,wolves,fox’s ,eagles, and vultures ,the circle of life ,not some tragedy that needs to be ‘studied’ and regulations put in place to prevent ...

[tomcat]

The last two post (17 and 1 hit the nail on the head.