No escaping this Ralph. I think this one might get people talking about this chum fishery and the damage it is doing.
Pay FN to stay off the water at critical times if that's what it takes, but end this disgrace.
Dave occasionally you write stuff verging on the delusional. I am not the apologist for anyone, FNs or otherwise. The attempts by some to make me so is bullying bullcrap. Most of these people have been placed on my ignore list.
That aside thanks for the one somewhat positive suggestion on how to deal with it. Paying them not to fish is not a bad idea. That's what's been done in some cases with Atlantic Salmon fisheries. Most of of the rest is the usual male s&m rage-o-holic spasm. It achieves nothing & likely makes things worse.
It's worth noting that by-catch and waste is a problem with almost every commercial fishery. The Fraser fishery is primarily that. I checked out the PSC 'test' fisheries. It caught close to 1/4 million fish this year. To acheive that by-catch on various species was about 11% of the total.
When I see photos like these I see lost spawning escapement, lost food value (last year I suggested fresh by-catch could be given to food banks & got ridiculed for that) and lost money. Those fish have some value some.
People need to DFO, the SFAB, the FVSS, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs and your various politicians. Posting photos of it, having the usual rage fest achieves nothing.
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