Scales, thanks for your post.
Very interesting article. Certainly answers some of the puzzles in the last year. I wonder what caused the pockets of low salt waters to be formed.
In the interest of attempting to answer other puzzles relating to our passion, I found the following statistics. Some of the following data is aged, but appears to be applicable today. It also answers the pecking order many of us are debating on other posts. Here it is:
2000 Survey of Sport Fishing in BC
·# of salmon caught in Lower Mainland: 493,955
·# of salmon kept in Lower Mainland: 134,521 (27.23% of salmon caught)
·recreational anglers who released fish voluntarily: 58.1%
·recreational anglers who released fish for mandatory reasons: 6.8%
·# of recreational anglers: 56,522
·# of salmon kept/ recreational angler/year: 2.38 salmon
·average expenditure/ recreational angler/year: $493.21
·average expenditure/ recreational angler/salmon/year: $207.23
·salmon catches by sector- Commercial fishery: 81%
Aboriginal fishery: 12%
Recreational fishery: 7%
·sector revenues (2002) of all species: Commercial fishery: $358 million
Sport fishery: $675 million
Aboriginal fishery: Not reported
·sector employment (2002) :
Commercial fishery: 5,400 people
Sport fishery: 8,900 people
Aboriginal fishery: Not reported
·DFO fish allocation principles: - Conservation is first priority
- First Nations have next priority for food, social and ceremonial purposes, and treaty obligations
- Commercial and recreational fishery are then allocated from surplus
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