I hear you brother. On the other hand, humans gotta eat. If the spawning goal of 6M is met, I don't see why the fish shouldn't be harvested. In the end fish is a much more sustainable protein than meats (especially red) and it's even better when it doesn't come from farmed fish or populations of concern (like this years pink salmon run looks like)
I agree but why do they deserve what I estimate might be 40% of the run. Why not let more fish spawn and maybe improve our future runs. Yes it seemed ocean conditions favored pink salmon ocean wide but still more fish spawning can only help the future runs and the environment.
I also don't see why we don't allow First Nations to harvest and sell when we have abundant runs. I am sure if they got HALF of what the corporations got to harvest it would improve their lives a lot and improve Canada's reconciliation efforts. I am aware they might not have as much industrial equiptment, freezers, vessels and stuff but if the government can subsidize our FN instead of big corporations. Then other stocks of concern will be saved because they got to profit off of a sustainable fishery. That can take more nets out of the river when IFS are migrating through.
Let me know if I got it wrong anyone, but this makes way more since to me than letting the Jim Pattison Group profit from our salmon. I don't oppose rich from getting richer, props to them for being smart and taking advantage of the system but I am absolutely NOT OK when they are profiting off of what should be a SHARED & PUBLIC resource. Plus how many of those Pink Salmon do you see end up rotting at superstore or save on foods it is a
disgrace. Worst part is this system is almost impossible to change unless you were extremely well connected or wealthy.