Fraser River Calman returns this year to celebrate a real opportunity, ‘Harvester says

Gai Johnson is fishing near the BC border with South -East Alaska.

On the phone, he tells CBC News that fishermen know how to expect challenging seasons.

“It is understood worldwide, and everywhere (with fishing communities) is going to be difficult times,” he said.

“Flip side on it which we are now seeing, when a real reward is coming, it is a real chance to celebrate.”

Johnson, who has been fishing for 50 years, is one of this year’s Fraser River Soci Salmon Return and its estimated 6.3 million fish celebrations.

According to data from the Pacific Salmon Commission and Fisheries and Ocean Canada (DFO), it is 2.3 million pre-season estimates, and is 13 times higher than last year’s estimated 474,000 fishes.

“These good returns, this as fishermen for us … we re-fill our economics,” Johnson says, who is also the Secretary-Flagistics Secretary of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union (Ufavu-Unifor).

“This means in our communities … people are going to eat this beautiful protein.”

Earlier this week, independent fish harvester by UFAWU-Unifor, representatives of the Area Harvest Committee and Pacific Salmon Commission, Fraser River Panel, BC Cafood Alliance and T. Data was shared by organizations including Bak Suzuki Foundation.

The group credits the first nation, commercial harvester, and DFO for efforts to reconstruct salmon stock and houses over years, the increase in part.

Bob Chamberlin, President of the First Nation Wild Salamon Alliance, indicates the removal of open-net fish forms in Discovery Islands.

Is near the fields Long debate has been a matter of debateThe environmental groups and some are saying with the first nations that they are associated with the transfer of the disease to the wild salmon. Work to phase them began In 2020, more than a dozen farms have been closed since then. Some Open-Net Fish Farm continue to work outside the Discovery Islands, however, the BC government delayed their closure from 2025 to 2029.

“I don’t want the government to see it, as you know, their hands are to wash and get a job,” Chamberlin said that this year the salmon growth has been said.

“This is an opportunity to build the importance of the British Columbon and the first nations and the environment to feel the importance of wild salmon, and start charting a course of nation-building with this resource as the benefits are still reaching.”

In a statement by CBC News, the DFO says that “it is not possible to characterize any single factor to the return scale, it is certain that it would not have been a big return” to restore the fish tract in the big bars Landslide without the efforts of the First Nations and Federal and Provincial Governments.

Landslide, which occurred in the north of Liloete, BC, In June 2019 But the next year was not discovered till June, Blocking the route Migrating Fraser River Calman – Preventing thousands of fish from reaching the upstream waterway in which they were born, and which they would have to reach to spon.

The DFO says that investment in hatchery infrastructure has allowed the release of thousands of adolescents sauki salmon to help reconstruct the stock after the slide and that in 2021, after restoring the fish passage “first brood year to make a comeback”.

Given the abundance, the DFO says that the first nation for food, social and formal purposes is given the first priority for fish, and further opportunities for nations, as well as commercial and entertaining fisheries will be assessed as more information is collected about salmon returns.

Christina Buriz, Executive Director of BC Cefood Alliance, says it is important to harvest salmon to avoid congestion on the sponing ground.

“First of all, you are wasting protein … and the second thing is that the bus is actually a negative cycle from which the fish cannot get enough sponing grounds and many of them die without spawning,” he said.

Meanwhile, fishermen Johnson says that people are celebrating the reward in the Cowchain Bay, where he lives during the off-season.

“You see it in my community. You see it above and below the coast. The real celebration is.”