Thought I'd share this with every one.

[steeliehead]

http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=5253&stc=1Three gill netted cowichan wild steelhead. Taken by our local tribe.

[Big Lew]

Are you suggesting that conservation efforts are beginning to work, and the steelhead
are making a comeback?

[Tīɡ]

well that's unfortunate....

[steeliehead]

Huh?? Are
you suggesting poaching depressed wild fish stocks is good?

[guest]

Keepers of the land ........ Sure glad all that hard work by the many volunteers is at least keeping some one in fish.... Note all wild too.

Sad indeed

[srupp]

Hmmmm for once words fail me...
Srupp

[Gr8 white hunter]

That is unbelievable those people are so fricken stupid they just don't get it.

[Sunzuki]

The gubbmint lets them get it.

[steel_ram]

Many of his FB friends are from the same mold. Just kids playing perhaps not aware or concerned yet about the effects of their actions. Cowichan steelhead are hurting. Lots of work being done by many including FN's. This illegal killing spits in the face of those that care.

[CR CRUISER]

Are you suggesting that conservation efforts are beginning to work, and the steelhead
are making a comeback?

They were!

[mikethemilkman]

Wow just wow

[The Hermit]

Send that to the Chief! He was at the Nanaimo Allocation meeting and seemed to care...

[Stretch]

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!

An insult to all the hard working volunteers.

[44inchStone]

And your surprised because??
Nothing surprises me anymore when this type of disgrace is flaunted on this site.

[shank]

ahhhh thats where the steelhead went WTF the cow has a hard time as it is wooow ..your right Srupp words fail me ..

[Red arch]

Well I just went through the fisheries notices, tidal supplement, freshwater supplement back to december 2014, and found no notice of an open fishery at all (including aboriginal) for Salmon, let alone Steelhead.

So the question is, why on earth where they out gill netting if nothing is open? and was this reported.

[GoatGuy]

Go talk to the chief.

Posts on here aren't going to help make more steelhead.

[Sofa King]

Well I just went through the fisheries notices, tidal supplement, freshwater supplement back to december 2014, and found no notice of an open fishery at all (including aboriginal) for Salmon, let alone Steelhead.

So the question is, why on earth where they out gill netting if nothing is open? and was this reported.

since when do hunting and fishing regs and seasons apply to Indians?

[Red arch]

since when do hunting and fishing regs and seasons apply to Indians?

Apologies, I was incorrectly informed when it came to the harvest of species of concern/at risk by "stewards" of the resource..

[303savage]

Are there no restrictions on native fisheries ?

[303savage]

! male and 2 female I wonder how many fry your bragging about killing with white mans nets.

[Sofa King]

Are there no restrictions on native fisheries ?

I think there are some on the island with commercial.
a lot of the natives at the north of the island are commercial, I just assume that they are following the same rules.
I actually just had a long discussion about this yesterday with someone regarding the natives around port hardy/pt mcneil.
the band there, he was telling me, fish by the rules and regs, and they do the same with their hunting as well.
he said they get tags for elk and follow the season that we do.

our conversation started because he didn't believe me when I said that our hunting and fishing rules don't apply to natives.
that they can hunt when they want, kill what they want, don't need licences and tags, etc.
he went on to "inform" me I was wrong, and that they do indeed have to buy a licence, etc, and follow the same rules.
and this person doesn't hunt and barely fishes.
I told him to look it up himself, which he then fumbled with the internet and complained that he couldn't find the correct information.
he was trying to tell me that all natives register there firearms even.

[troutseeker]

I used to watch the stewards of the land snag salmon and steelhead on the Cowichan, kick them around shore and leave them to rot. Just to sport I guess...