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Well,What a great year of Sockeye fishing all 9 bloody days of it!!! I'm so glad I spent all that money on those fishing licenses I say we revolt and demand our money back. Talked to some Natives they are pulling 50 to 80 or more a day each, every day for they last month and I can't go out with my single barbless hook and get my 2.This is criminal how they continualy screw the sports fisheries the people who relly do things for the economy. Catching a fish is a spiritual experience for me too damit! Let's get with it here the Natives are just another suedo comercial fishery!! They just sell all that fish and sturgen too!! They should be able to take enough for their own consumption and that's it!!If they want to save the fish pull the nets!! What the heck is happening to all that money we spend on our licenses and tags!! We should all go and demand our money back go to your nearest Government Agent and DAMAND your money back!! Show them that we are out there and we count!!
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This is an excerpt from the PSC report on the upgrade of sockeye counts in the Fraser. PLease pay particular attention to the catch allotments for natives and sports fishing. "On Friday August 6th along with the U.S. Section we met in Richmond with the Pacific Salmon Commission staff and were given their estimation of the probable run size of Fraser Sockeye. The following are the run size projections given by the Salmon Commission staff. Stock PreSeason Size Est. Current Est. Early Stuart 318,000 150,000 Early Summers 477,000 400,000 Summers 5,328,000 1,400,000 Late (Adams) 2,125,000 1,100,000 ----------- ----------- Total Run Size 8,248,000 3,050.000 The spawning escapement targets under this new run size are as follows Early Stuart - 140,500 Earl Summers - 316,000 Summers - 1,000.000 Lates - 853,000 ---------- Total Esc Goal 2,309,500 Plus Test Fishing 74,000 ________ Total 2,383,500 Balance available 666,500 for harvest Less Native exemp 400,000 TAC to split with U.S 266,500 U.S. Share 59,500 Canada Share 207,000 Plus Native Exemp 400,000 ---------- Total Canada Share 607,000 Canadian Commercial Catch to Aug 6 - 55,000 Canadian Sport Catch (No data yet - 1,500 (Est) Native catch - 57,100 Canadian Balance ------------------ 493,400 Balance owing to the natives - 1,060,900" Please note the total estimate taken by sports fishing and the total to be given to the natives. Sports fishing to date: 1,500 sockeye!!!!!!! Natives to date: 57,000 sockeye!!!!!! balance owing to the natives :OVER 1 MILLION I find it difficult to believe that those fish are used for food and ceremonial purposes. I am not ragging on the natives here, I just believe that if resource conservation is necessary, it should be equally shared across the user groups. If the sports fishing community has only HARVESTED an estimated 1500 sockeye to date, where is the harm in a CATCH AND RELEASE sockeye fishery? It allows the guides to keep their businesses operating, and we get to keep fishing. The "business"of sports fishing contributes 100 fold to economy more than ANY OTHER SECTOR or sockeye user group. We also contribute more to resource conservation than any other group. Its time for a radical re-thinking of the priorities of our judicial system and resource management.
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