Not good but at least agencies are working together on it.
https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/freeing-salmon-trapped-at-fraser-river-slide-site-the-focus-of-experts/
Not good but at least agencies are working together on it.
https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/freeing-salmon-trapped-at-fraser-river-slide-site-the-focus-of-experts/
Last edited by jonz; 07-12-2019 at 08:22 PM.
Site Sponsor
Salmon cannon to the rescue!
It is well to try and journey ones road and to fight with the air.Man must die! At worst he can die a little sooner." (H Ryder Haggard)
Fish are getting through. Water will start dropping. This slide happened last year, and we're worried about the slide "this week". Weird.
This is photo op time.
Not really - close fisheries that affect these particular runs. There are plenty of other fisheries available that do not affect early chinooks or stuart river and mid summer sockeye. Your logic is like closing all hunting because there's a shortage of 4 pt mule deer in the Kootenays.
What annoys me is if this slide occurred last winter,they had the options of blasting the blockage and clearing the river ,something they can’t do when fish are returning.Another example of DFO incompetence
They should just do what they did many years ago when the Fraser River became blocked.
(Not sure if it was the Railways or who, but was human caused and blocked the river severely!!, I just cant find the "History" on it)
Anyways, the FN were upset (rightfully so!) at the lack of effort ot fix the issues before it devastated salmon stocks.
So, the builts a wooden "Sluice" you could say.
They got the salmon on the down river side, brought them up to the ramp sluices, and sent them down the ramps till they were passed the
the blocked river.
Do that!
Then, once the runs are done, "light Er up with some TnT" (or whatever they did to fix it back then)