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[clarki]

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/commercial-fleet-begins-harvest-of-bumper-herring-returns-to-strait-of-georgia

Regardless of your perspective on the fishery, it's good news all around to see such large numbers of herring in the Strait.

[Rieber]

Stands to reason with the decline in Salmon. Let's hope this helps everything bounce back a little.

[psd1179]

Stands to reason with the decline in Salmon. Let's hope this helps everything bounce back a little.

They stocked millions of Herring fries

[clarki]

They stocked millions of Herring fries

Who is "they"?

I'm aware of efforts by organizations, i.e. Squamish Streamkeepers, to improve spawning habitat but I'm not aware of any stocking.

[psd1179]

Check this out:

A False Creek full of dolphins and orcas could soon be reality, says conservation group
Squamish Streamkeepers are working to bring back herring to downtown Vancouver

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-false-creek-full-of-dolphins-and-orcas-could-soon-be-reality-says-conservation-group-1.4000470

[psd1179]

"Historically, there were 20,000 tonnes of fish that lived off the plume of the Fraser River in 1966, now there are zero to 100 tonnes," Matsen explained.

Who eat up all the herring?

[Rieber]

"Historically, there were 20,000 tonnes of fish that lived off the plume of the Fraser River in 1966, now there are zero to 100 tonnes," Matsen explained.

Who eat up all the herring?

This guy - one fish at a time.  ;D

[Dave]

 

[typhoon]

"Historically, there were 20,000 tonnes of fish that lived off the plume of the Fraser River in 1966, now there are zero to 100 tonnes," Matsen explained.

Who eat up all the herring?

The herring roe fishery really clobbered the stocks on the east side of Vancouver Island.
It's nice to see them rebounding. It can't be a bad thing for salmon.

[96XJ]

This guy - one fish at a time. 

Biggest laugh of the day

[RalphH]

"Historically, there were 20,000 tonnes of fish that lived off the plume of the Fraser River in 1966, now there are zero to 100 tonnes," Matsen explained.

Who eat up all the herring?

There's two types of herring in the inside waters - fish that come here to spawn but feed and grow out in the Pacific and there are resident herring that live in specific places; Pender Harbour had a resident population as did Skookumchuk Rapids near Egmont.

I think there is/was a resident population off the mouth of the Fraser.

FOC manages both stocks as if they are one and resident herring may get hammered by the commercial herring fishery.

The Strait simply ain't as rich as it once was and I guess that makes it doubly tough for the resident herring stocks.

[CohoJake]

FOC manages both stocks as if they are one and resident herring may get hammered by the commercial herring fishery.

I hope this does't result in over harvest of vulnerable stocks like when interior coho get hammered during Fraser sockeye harvest.  Overall though, I think this is really promising news to have such a large amount of feed for this fall's returning salmon.  Should make them nice and fat!

[Damien]

I had an orca swimming within an oar's length from my boat in October in the Nicomekl River by the golf course.

[stsfisher]

I had an orca swimming within an oar's length from my boat in October in the Nicomekl River by the golf course.

Come on Man. lol

[Damien]

No word of a lie.  It was a calf orca.  Three witnesses.

I have absolutely no reason or interest in making something like this.  And who would really care, I just thought it was interesting and it caught me off guard at the time.  Lots of seals, thats normal.  And then boom, there it was.  Right beside me.