Fisheries committee  In a state of the salmon presentation that I recently saw from somebody in DFO, there were multiple pictures of a rear-view mirror. DFO is telling itself that it needs to stop doing this and looking in that rear-view mirror. Unfortunately, I think that's all it is; this is what's

Fisheries committee  I am familiar with them, and the ONA is doing some great work there. I would suggest that there do need to be some alterations to those, especially given that they would be operating on severely endangered stocks. For example, for our hatchery, we have backup power; we have redun

Fisheries committee  Yes. We do need to reinvigorate that program up here to ensure that our genetic information is accurate, but yes, there is potential to use those programs with a “hatchery in a can” concept.

Fisheries committee  I am. To quickly reiterate, the coded wire tag information I was referring to is the stuff they were looking at with regard to the Penny hatchery that was up here, which was DFO's facility that was running the coded wire tag program. That facility never actually met its quota for

Fisheries committee  Yes, I believe very much so, actually. At the Spruce City Wildlife Association, I am focused on the fish side of things, but we do have wildlife projects going on as well. We're very involved in the caribou situation around here and that sort of thing. Again, I'd like to tie th

Fisheries committee  I'll quickly start. Spawning channels do work in quite a few areas. However, they're also kind of forced into a situation now. Where we are, there is a significant bear population and an increasing grizzly population, and these things kind of end up as big food troughs. In this

Fisheries committee  Yes, I would completely. I think what is needed, especially in the upper Fraser, are conservation-focused hatcheries. This isn't about getting as many fish in the bin as you can and setting them all free at the exact same size, at the exact same time. I think what we need is a mo

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. That program is extremely important. The Spruce City Wildlife Association did benefit in the past. However, there were significant cuts to this area, I believe in 2012, and a lot of those resources were taken away from the upper Fraser. All of our hab

Fisheries committee  The chinook up here run on a five-year cycle. It would be five years before you could get the data on one cycle of fish. Again, this is something that needs long-term investment and long-term monitoring.

Fisheries committee  The short answer is no. The provinces, most times, focus on planting a monocultured forest that is merchantable timber. It's exactly as you said. When you have hectare upon hectare with no trees, which would normally be soaking up all that moisture on these steep slopes, all that

Fisheries committee  The data difference that we'd be looking at is not only population based, given that our populations were a lot higher back then, but salmon are really unique in their straying capabilities. When salmon are headed up, it's true, they'll return to their natal stream; however, if t

Fisheries committee  The Spruce City Wildlife Association had a partnership with SEP pretty much right from the inception of SEP. There was a funding cutback at one time, which was the same one that shut down the Penny hatchery, as well as the Quesnel River Research Centre hatchery that was in this a

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Today I will be speaking about the state of salmon in B.C. using my experience with the upper and middle Fraser spring and summer chinook. Unfortunately, I'm here to tell you today that this is not a new problem. The residents of the upper Fraser have been