Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: chris gadsden on January 01, 2019, 06:54:00 PM
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dfo-investigating-critical-fish-habitat-destruction-in-b-c-s-heart-of-the-fraser-1.4950835
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What a disaster. But the question is how did those islands become private property.
Without those trees that island might just be washed away.
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I can only speak of Herrling, but the bridge they want to build over the side channel, is probably better then the thousands of leaky trucks quads and bikes that used to cross the channel in years passed to gain access to the trails. Herrling Island was at one point a tree farm for Scott paper that was logged many times im sure. Personally, if they want to farm Herrling, I think it’s a much better use then it was used in the past. I doubt those fish enjoyed swimming in those pits with burned out cars and trucks in them.
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I think those Scott Paper TFs were experimental and bet the logging was minimal. There was one near Kilby Park and it was only cut in the last few years. Expect the land owners will want to build dykes if the plan to develop farms on those islands.
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I doubt a farm could ever pay back the cost to build dykes
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I doubt a farm could ever pay back the cost to build dykes
dykes almost never get built or maintained by land owners.