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[Geff_t]

Well after dropping my daughter off in Mission I thought that I would hit the mouth of the stave and chuck some spoons for pinks or at least see if anything was happening. Well to my surprise there was something happening. There where 3 natives ( 2 females and a male) netting the mouth of the stave. They had two nets on the go tied to the pillars of the train tracks and extending out into the fraser. Needless to say I did not even try to fish as those nets would of scoped up anything coming into the river. I watch them for a good 30min as two where in a canoe and the elderly women was sitting under a canopy. I left them alone and waited up by my car as the elderly women was walking up the trail and I wanted to make sure I got a good discription of their vehicle. Well I got a good discription and the plate number but I forgot my cell on the kitchen table. I jumped in my car and found a pay phone across the street and phoned DFO. I don't know if the netting was illegal but I thought just in case I better phone. Of course I only got a recording but I left the info anyways along with my contact info as well. I still can not believe they where netting but I guess I should not be surprised. I hope DFO does do something. 
 
 

[bentrod]

Not sure if it is the same in BC, but in Washington, Washington State Patrol does the dirty work for Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. 

[Rodney]

For the regions in from Mission to Sawmill Creek, Port Mann to Kanaka Cr/Derby R, Kanaka Cr/Derby Rch to Mission, there were 7 hour drift net openings for sockeye salmon between 7:00am and 2:00pm yesterday and today. In the same region, there has also been a set net opening for sockeye salmon from 6:00pm Friday to 6:00pm today.

These above openings were for the Lower Fraser River First Nation Groups.

In addition, there have been the same drift net and set net openings for Cheam First Nation from Jone's Hill to Jesperson's. Yale First Nation also has a 48 hour set net opening in the same time period for sockeye salmon from Hope to Sawmill Creek and from Agassiz to Hope.

These are communal openings in the Fraser Valley, there were also sockeye openings further downstream in the tidal portion this weekend.

[TrophyHunter]

It seems so ridiculous that they are allowing people to net these fish that are most likely to become extinct in our lifetime 
such a shme the human race is so greedy and can't learn from past mistakes  might aswell open retention of Sturgeon too , that way we can see which species will die out first 

TH

[bentrod]

I think the tribes in Washington have a line on which salmon run will go extinct first.   I know, it's not just the tribes/first nation, we're all in the same boat.  Some of us just rape the environment a little more discretely.