Alaska's salmon bounty coming at B.C.'s expense

[IronNoggin]

Terry Glavin: Alaska's salmon bounty coming at B.C.'s expense

But Canada's foreign affairs department remains clueless

There’s a diplomatic disaster unfolding on the Pacific Coast right now, and don’t be shocked if you haven’t heard anything about it. Joly certainly hasn’t made a fuss, and it’s not clear whether she’s even aware that it’s going on, even though Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray has seemingly handed off the file to Joly.

Last summer was Alaska’s third most productive salmon season in history. A big part of the Alaska catch was chinook salmon. Almost all the chinook caught in Alaska — 90 percent of them — were chinook bound for rivers in B.C., Washington and Oregon.

Fisheries Minister Murray’s primary policy response has been just that — keep B.C. fishermen tied up at dockside to “conserve” the runs the Alaskans are catching, and stop sports fishermen from catching chinook in B.C.’s rivers. And now the Alaskans are planning a fishing season with chinook catches a third higher than last year’s quotas, according to biologists with the Watershed Watch Salmon Society.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ter...-b-c-s-expense

[tinhorse]

If only we could pen up our salmon and keep them in BC waters.....oh wait that doesn't work either. Seriously though it's pretty hard to control when not in Canadian waters. Not sure what they will be able to do

[eatram]

I'd make them an ultimatum; harmonize the regulations on salmon or we net them into extinction. It'll happen either way, so at least right now, we have a bullet in the chamber....

[Bugle M In]

I would say shut off the hydro to California.
But then again, Alaskans are a whole other breed like Texans.
They would say “ okay, go ahead, so what”

[Gr8 white hunter]

Ah the US owns Canada,we are just a big piggy bank of resources for them.

[IronNoggin]

Ah the US owns Canada....

As the US owns Canada, Alaska owns Washington.
Always have.

Nog

[Phila]

I see this situation and complete silence from our Federal government as yet another failure of this Liberal government.

Add this failure to even represent Canadian interests to the list: air travel, passport services, gang violence, trade, diplomacy.

[ratherbefishin]

The hard cold truth is if it doesn’t get votes it isn’t going to happen..and BC is insignificant federally ,Ontario and Quebec hold the balance of power,and politicians can dine on all the salmon they want in the subsidized House of Commons restaurant

[Bugle M In]

We would have to charge double for our hydro to California or better yet, just turn off the power supply to them to get them to listen.

[ratherbefishin]

Then Trudeau would ‘apologise’’