Rodney Hsu says Fisheries and Oceans Canada needs to ramp up salmon poaching enforcement on the Fraser River.
A B.C. man is calling on Fisheries and Oceans Canada to get to the bottom of ongoing illegal poaching and sales of salmon from the Fraser River.
Presently, the only openings for sockeye fishing on the river have been for First Nations food and social ceremonial fisheries, which can employ nets. Recreational fishers are not able to retain any salmon and commercial vessels have been banned in order to protect the dominant four-year sockeye run, which this year has come in at about 5.5 million fish, as opposed to the 9.8 million that had been expected.
“Now, if you want to buy salmon, it can be done pretty easily. If you come down to the Fraser Valley, they can be found on the roadside. It's illegal sales,” said Hsu.“So the buyers are, you know, they play just as big of a role as the sellers,” said Hsu. “What's more important is that these fish could have been back on the spawning grounds right now and producing offspring for the next generation,” said Hsu.
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