The budget has cut the stock assessments.
Minister, if you need to cut frivolous spending at DFO, then so be it, but stock assessments for Pacific salmon are essential. Yesterday, 35 signatories from across B.C. sent you a letter, urging you to revitalize stock assessments of wild Pacific salmon, which is essential for the health of wild salmon stocks and the prosperity of fisheries and communities that depend on them.
Will you listen to the voices of the academics, conservationists and resource users and the people of British Columbia, and prioritize Pacific salmon stock assessments?