ATV activity near critical Fraser River fish habitat alarms conservationists

[adriaticum]

Why is it only a problem when Tom, Dick and Harry drive their trucks on the redds?
When they dredge the Fraser for gravel and destroy habitat on scale 1000 times greater than that, that's just business then?

[Arctic Lake]

Yes that’s a concern but in all honesty I don’t know the details . It may be where they take it from ?
Hopefully someone with more knowledge than I will chime in !
Arctic Lake

Why is it only a problem when Tom, Dick and Harry drive their trucks on the redds?
When they dredge the Fraser for gravel and destroy habitat on scale 1000 times greater than that, that's just business then?

[goatdancer]

Why is it only a problem when Tom, Dick and Harry drive their trucks on the redds?
When they dredge the Fraser for gravel and destroy habitat on scale 1000 times greater than that, that's just business then?

Correct me if I'm wrong but is not the dredging operation done by FN companies with the blessing of DFO? It's a political crap show and should never have been allowed.
That does not make it right for dickheads to rip up the river with 4x4s just for the hell of it.

[adriaticum]

Correct me if I'm wrong but is not the dredging operation done by FN companies with the blessing of DFO? It's a political crap show and should never have been allowed.
That does not make it right for dickheads to rip up the river with 4x4s just for the hell of it.

There has been dredging going on in the Fraser for a while and also in the Chilliwack river.
Not just by FN, but by non-FN too.
I'm not condoning what these guys are doing, but it's a little hypocritical of media and governments to blame private citizens when they have whole operations destroying the environment with their blessings.
Unfortunately right now salmon a hatching, pinks and chum starting in late january and they are vulnerable.
No self-respecting BC-er who knows the first thing about salmon, would do this.

[adriaticum]

Yes that’s a concern but in all honesty I don’t know the details . It may be where they take it from ?
Hopefully someone with more knowledge than I will chime in !
Arctic Lake

There are many factors, when they do it, how they do it, where they do it and how they leave the environment after they're done.
There have been many campaigns against these operations.
Salmon are resilient, but they can't fight urbanization.
Fraser river is lucky to have salmon at all.
Lower Mainland had salmon runs that were amazing, but were all destroyed by damms and urbanization.
Now, almost every river in LML is dammed pretty much and they are almost all supplemented by hatcheries.

[goatdancer]

[QUOTE=adriaticum;2231827]There has been dredging going on in the Fraser for a while and also in the Chilliwack river.
Not just by FN, but by non-FN too.

Thank you for the clarification. Like you said, money talks.

[ElectricDyck]

Is this really causing anymore impact than a big rain storm when levels come up? Why should I care about one bars worth of fish with all the nets on the fraser every year and recreational fishing opportunities being taken away...

[tubby]

Of course the media wont touch the FN gravel extraction being done upriver on a epic scale every year. The area being dredged is near some of the most important sturgeon spawning areas.

[Drillbit]

Of course the media wont touch the FN gravel extraction being done upriver on a epic scale every year. The area being dredged is near some of the most important sturgeon spawning areas.

Or Poly Mine

[boxhitch]

yes its a small issue in the big picture
but thats what media is about these days, myopic like most of the viewers