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[BH123]

Been fishing below Alex Frasier bridge for sturgeon the past too days. Man its slow. For the past 10 years I am usually into double digit days for the next 3 weeks. For the last two years now it been crap, and I am thinking its because there are no eulachons. What a disaster this is. I can't believe the poor management by DFO. It seems DFO doesn't really care. They are not even conducting the test fishery this year. Its like they have just pushed this serious environment issue under the rug. Who cares, just some dumb little fish. The lack of the euli run is going to have serious impact on the sturgeon especially the run that lives in the lower Fraser. This run is is very important as the lower Fraser is where most of the sturgeon grow in size. What is to be done folks?

[wagz]

This could be two years in a row without the females spawning.
 How many more years of this before the warning bells go off??

[glx]

I believe they are not conducting a test fishery is because the numbers have gotten so low, that they cant afford to lose any fish in the test fishery.  

[Rodney]

Poor DFO, gets blamed when people get skunked.

The absence of the test fishery does not indicate DFO lacks interest in the state of the eulachon population. Why should DFO allocate a portion of the fund to conduct an in-season test fishery when no First Nation, recreational and commercial fisheries are scheduled for 2006? There are already three other pre and post-season indicators for run-size estimates.

From the reports that I've received, eulachons have already shown up in good numbers in other parts of the river, maybe that's where your sturgeon have gone, to feed on them.

What is to be done folks?

One can start by reading this.

FYI, eulachon is a highly discussed topic among DFO, SFAC/SFABs and other interest groups. It maybe wise to do some background research or even get involved in the management process before laying out accusations of negligence.

[leaseman]

What other parts are you talking Rod???.........