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Originally Posted by Unregistered user
Also the herring fishery takes away the Chinook's food, sends roe to Japan and the rest is made into meal for the fish farms out there which kill vast areas of sea floor with poop and medications, and infest the area with sea lice so dense they kill smolts returning from the rivers. The salmon have very little chance of competing with DFO. I was planning on fishing out of French Creek or Sooke this year but may head east instead. Too bad, I love it out there but C&R is just bad practice and no fun.
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The fact that they are still running the commercial herring fishery is a perfect example of politics at it's best. 20,000 TONS of fish removed from bottom of the food chain just to satiate a few commercial fishermen. No one can say with a straight face that those fish wouldn't have been more valuable feeding salmon (and pretty much everything else).
