Fisheries committee  Yes, the issue of selective fisheries on the Fraser is a huge one. What Dr. Walters is saying is completely accurate. Beach seining involves 30%-60% mortality. The way it looks, these fish die afterwards. Pound traps look like the way of the future. Again, DFO in that case is a

Fisheries committee  Yes, they are, both legally and illegally. The challenge with a net is that if a fish is the right size, it's going to get caught in that net, and there's a very high likelihood that even if it falls out of the net or somebody puts it back in the river, it's going to end up dead,

Fisheries committee  It's really interesting that you bring that up, because in the first year of the salmon restoration and innovation fund, there were actually applications from first nations to transition to more selective methods, and those applications were turned down. There is definitely an

Fisheries committee  There are two processes. There's the recovery potential assessment, the RPA, which is a peer-reviewed science document that basically points to the causes and potential solutions. Then that's followed up with a science advisory report, which is really a layperson's interpretation

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the opportunity to present. I'd like to discuss the future of Pacific salmon using my experience with interior Fraser steelhead, in particular the Thompson and Chilcotin fish. The history is that the fishery went from a catch-and-kill fishery to a catch-and-releas

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the opportunity to present. I would like to discuss the future of Pacific salmon, using my experience with interior Fraser steelhead, in particular the Thompson and Chilcotin fish. The history for angling was a catch-and-kill fishery, then a catch and release, and