Entire Skeena Watershed closed indefinitely for Chinook and no one seems to care

[geologist]

Are there fish farms on the Skeena?

[tubby]

If this closure was really about conservation that would be great, even better would be if all user group were closed to allow for actual fish back on the beds.
This isnt about conservation, this is about allowing one user group to net stocks that are depleted.

The Skeena is 10 years behind the Fraser in terms of declining salmon and steelhead stocks.

The only way to actually boost the runs and save these stocks is for ALL user groups to not target them.

Non selective gillnets will be death of this system. Would also be great if the local FN took care of the seal and sea lion problem in the tidal part of the Skeena.

[shed-hunter1]

if people would stop buying fish from the FN then geusse what they would stop fishing problem solved

[IronNoggin]

If this closure was really about conservation that would be great, even better would be if all user group were closed to allow for actual fish back on the beds.
This isnt about conservation, this is about allowing one user group to net stocks that are depleted.

Ed Zachery!!

[Bugle M In]

If this closure was really about conservation that would be great, even better would be if all user group were closed to allow for actual fish back on the beds.
This isnt about conservation, this is about allowing one user group to net stocks that are depleted.

The Skeena is 10 years behind the Fraser in terms of declining salmon and steelhead stocks.

The only way to actually boost the runs and save these stocks is for ALL user groups to not target them.

Non selective gillnets will be death of this system. Would also be great if the local FN took care of the seal and sea lion problem in the tidal part of the Skeena.

BINGO.
This is not about conservation.
I posted a couple years back about talking with a dfo bio on the Aleena closure that years ss it pertained to fish stocks.
Tgst closure at the the time was all political, not conservation compared to the stocks in the Fraser.
Is the Skeena in trouble. Absolutely.
There probably isn’t a watershed anywhere around that isn’t.
But this closure, while nets go across just shows how bad things have become in our society.
Society says they care but don’t even take 2 minute out of their day to understand how stupid things have become. If they did, they would quickly realize how little any policy these days play any role in protecting nature.
Quite honestly, it’s criminal what is happening.
Taking them to court or replacing those in power with folks that do understand what needs to happen are the only 3 options available anymore.
Short of that, wildlife will decline and opportunity will end for the majority of people.