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 solution is here: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/05/dfo-salmon-and-killer-whales.html.
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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