Wednesday 17 April 2019

Tough Limits set on Catching Chinook Salmon - 4/17/19 TC, Updated April 19, 2019


 Here is the image I sent to the Times Colonist:


 Hi Lindsay

Thanks for the article.

The real problem is that DFO has allowed salmon and SRKWs to move to extinction for the past 50 years. Now, when they are both on the edge, DFO closes sport fishing, and still salmon and SRKWs plummet toward extinction, without big funding for the solutions: freshwater habitat restoration and selective, epigenetic enhancement.


My figure is far higher than the one quoted by DFO, at $2.52B revenue for the sport sector salt- and fresh-water. Here is how I calculated it: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2015/05/salmonfishing-revenue-towers-over.html. It is public as it was published by the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF). Many small communities are in trouble.

And the new $142M does not have as its main aim that most important item: freshwater habitat restoration (FHR). See my post: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/04/salmon-restoration-and-innovation-fund.html.

But the two important things now are: 1. The PSF is a credible structure to deliver FHR, leveraging money 4- to 7-times, and, 2. The BC Wild Salmon Advisory Council - so, the province has authority to fund and undertake freshwater habitat restoration - the most important thing to do. WSAC is also a structure, and has salmon as its long term focus, from us, not DFO/Ottawa.

The TC’s shots of chinook salmon in the past couple of weeks have been a tad scruffy. Attached is a nice shot of a chinook you might use in future. I have hundreds more, and have a higher res image of the one attached, should you need it.

Dennis

Also sent to:

John Horgan
Andrew Weaver
Adam Olsen
Lana Popham

I sent a followup note:

I forgot to mention that my next project is to set out climate change problems along with what we can do about them.

There are many novel things we can do, and Peltier Tiles will be used in many of them.

D

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