reading the various threads online and on facebook it's obvious the system in place is flawed. It's creating an environment of confrontation and straight up racism.
some sort of system needs to be created where transparency and accountability are at the fore front. the resource needs to be managed with the cooperation of user groups.
the racist comments are seriously bull$h!t. Theres likely only 5% of the recreational fishermen here that actually try to enhance the resource, maybe even less. I am confident the vast majority of you have never written a letter to your elected representative. nor have you voiced your concerns among established non profit groups within the lower mainland. F#@K, most of you leave timmy cups all over the trails on the various rivers we have here.
naw, instead you go online and say natives are lazy and sell fish outta trucks. thats cool 
. funny how i never met a lazy white guy or a criminal caucasian .... maybe trace your ancestry to wherever the hell your from and head on back. 
if you don't like the system, help to change it or leave.
While I get the sentiment, I can understand the other side too. I grew up in WA. My dad put a lot of money and time into raising salmon eggs and repopulating streams that no longer had salmon. I spent a lot of time at those boxes, removing bad eggs, feeding the fish, releasing them into different areas. We raise coho, and a lot of them. People came from the official hatchery and from other areas to view our process because we were doing it better than they were able to. The first year we were supposed to get escapement back, there were a couple, very large coho but fewer than we expected. The next year, none. A lot of time was spent looking for the problem. Unfortunately, it wasn't too hard to find. There was a net, strung across the creek entrance and inside the net were dozens of huge, hook nosed coho that were trying to return to where we had planted them. My dad lobbied the fisheries to stop them from completely netting off the stream entrance. He tried to appeal to the tribe. Nobody cared to do a thing. The next year, when that net reappeared, we were done raising salmon. All we were doing was putting money into some other guy's pocket and it wasn't restoring the fish at all. The fish had no chance and nobody that had the power to do something about it cared enough to do anything. All it was was taking what they could get right then and there.
That isn't living in harmony with the land. That isn't policing your own group. Sure, maybe that was a bad egg in the bunch but if that is the case, then the elders should have heard what was happening and put a stop to it. Unfortunately, the bad eggs in the bunch rarely seem to be reprimanded from what I am able to see. It sure doesn't stop them from continuing. If the FN want to claim they are helping protect the runs, then they should be out policing their members. Anybody caught fishing when they aren't supposed to, fishing in a way they aren't supposed to, breaking any of the rules with respect to harvesting or catching salmon loses their right to fish for some significant length of time (like 5 years). You can't be for conservation of the runs and then let people of your group rape the runs at the same time.
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Topic: Tidal and Non-Tidal Fraser River Closes to Salmon Fishing August 11, 2016 (Read 97632 times)