It is entirely possible for wild salmon to thrive again on this coast of British Columbia: they thrived here in these rivers for 10,000 years since the last ice age.
Yeah that was an epic sockeye return that year. Pretty strange to have run sizes that fluctuate that much from year to year. In Bristol Bay we get about 30-40 million every year, pretty consistent. The Fraser might do 17 million, then 3 million, then 35 million, then back to 9 million the next year, weird. Definitely some variables to look at in the management sector, we better get more data.
This could happen every cycle without the farms in Johnston strait. The reason this year was good was because the smolts, the babies went out thru Juan de Fuca.
This year wasn't any good. There was NO sockeye fishery ffs. This video is from 2010. No, it could't happen every year. There are high and low return years.
it should be noted that seines are a "last resort" measure at the mouth of the river DFO only allows it when too many fish have gone up-river already....the seines are called in as the "clean-up" crews....if not, too many fish upriver kill all the previously laid eggs and the run suffers...the gillnets cannot stop all the fish when the run is so large...it takes the seines with their deeper nets...what may seem to be overfishing is actually good fish management...
The smolts responsible for this amazing run predominently went out to sea thru the Juan de Fuca. therefore they didn't go north thru the farms. Don't think this was anything to do with a renewed ecology. These farms have destroyed every wild salmon stock in every country in the world.
@AquacultureAwareness Sorry but I disagree with what you are saying. One bumper crop doesn't mean it's all well and good. Remember the huge chum run? No, neither do it.
And people are blaming native fisheries for the decline of salmon. I feel that the greed of commercial fishing has the biggest part to do with why the salmon runs are in decline. Like holy hell. 1 net of over 30000 salmon is disgusting. How many spawners were killed when they could of made the run and spawned. Commercial salmon fishing has to shut down for an number of years to help rebuild the population.
It is entirely possible for wild salmon to thrive again on this coast of British Columbia: they thrived here in these rivers for 10,000 years since the last ice age.
Yeah that was an epic sockeye return that year. Pretty strange to have run sizes that fluctuate that much from year to year. In Bristol Bay we get about 30-40 million every year, pretty consistent. The Fraser might do 17 million, then 3 million, then 35 million, then back to 9 million the next year, weird. Definitely some variables to look at in the management sector, we better get more data.
I hope that this film is carefully archived, so that 20 years from now, people will be able to see what a sockeye salmon fishery looked like.
This could happen every cycle without the farms in Johnston strait. The reason this year was good was because the smolts, the babies went out thru Juan de Fuca.
This year wasn't any good. There was NO sockeye fishery ffs. This video is from 2010. No, it could't happen every year. There are high and low return years.
it should be noted that seines are a "last resort" measure at the mouth of the river DFO only allows it when too many fish have gone up-river already....the seines are called in as the "clean-up" crews....if not, too many fish upriver kill all the previously laid eggs and the run suffers...the gillnets cannot stop all the fish when the run is so large...it takes the seines with their deeper nets...what may seem to be overfishing is actually good fish management...
OK cool so there's more sockeye Than ever... So what happens when you catch them all.... How is there going to be future huge runs.. I don't get it
Awesome set guys!
Awesome video thanks for sharing
The smolts responsible for this amazing run predominently went out to sea thru the Juan de Fuca. therefore they didn't go north thru the farms. Don't think this was anything to do with a renewed ecology. These farms have destroyed every wild salmon stock in every country in the world.
Let’s place these wild fish eggs in fresh lakes every place south of here?
Bonus Sockeye Salmon run is proof salmon are smarter than AGW scientists.
5% is probably all you were worth, that's what a greenhorn usually gets anyway.
@AquacultureAwareness
Sorry but I disagree with what you are saying. One bumper crop doesn't mean it's all well and good. Remember the huge chum run?
No, neither do it.
Yeah, right. And you fish farmers stick to "science" cause that's what you're so good at.
And people are blaming native fisheries for the decline of salmon. I feel that the greed of commercial fishing has the biggest part to do with why the salmon runs are in decline. Like holy hell. 1 net of over 30000 salmon is disgusting. How many spawners were killed when they could of made the run and spawned. Commercial salmon fishing has to shut down for an number of years to help rebuild the population.
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