Jordan Cuts Commercial Harvest 60% to Save Wild Salmon

I have written on fisheries issues in newspapers, magazines and books for 40 years.

Reducing commercial fisheries 60%, as this articles suggests, will not bring salmon back, as the root issues are not addressed. This approach is just like killing off east coast cod.

In a nutshell, the four big problems with wild salmon are:

1. Habitat restoration and prevention of destruction;

2. DFO;

3. Fish farms; and,

4. Climate change.

My cut-to-the-chase solution for moving fish farms to land is:

1. Retrain in-ocean staff to work on-land. DFO pays.

2. Make in-ocean licences $1M with on-land $0. Then raise the in-ocean licence toward what these same companies pay in auctions in Norway of $32- $40-million.

3. Give fish farms $1M to set up on-land in BC.

4. Alternatively, rent out Crown land at low or no cost for, say. 10 years.

Similarly, the hundreds of millions that DFO has earmarked for wild salmon recovery largely miss the target.
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See this very long article for an in-depth look at DFO problems in these regards: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/07/dfos-public-consultation-on-framework.html.

See this very long article on its leaky strategies: http://onfishingdcreid.blogspot.com/2018/12/options-for-made-in-bc-wild-salmon.html.

See this short article on the precautinoary principle: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/11/dfo-is-biggest-threat-to-wild-bc-salmon.html.
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Reference News Piece, June 30, 2021: https://www.intrafish.com/salmon/canada-to-close-60-of-2021-commercial-salmon-fisheries-pulling-emergency-brake-on-stock-decline/2-1-1032777?utm_source=email_campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-06-30T16%3A00%3A05.915Z&utm_term=intrafish_com&utm_content=salmon.