Angling restrictions to begin on Canada Day
Closures are being implemented to reduce the incidental catch of chinook and chum salmon in the public angling (sport) fishery.
Closures are being implemented to reduce the incidental catch of chinook and chum salmon in the public angling (sport) fishery.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) made the announcement Wednesday.
No one will be allowed to fish for chinook or chum salmon in the Yukon River from the Robert Campbell Bridge downstream to the Canada-U.S. border from July 1 to Nov. 30.
Fishing for chinook or chum salmon in the Yukon River upstream of the Whitehorse Rapids Dam will be banned between the same dates.
Nobody will be able to fish for chinook or chum salmon from the dam downstream to the bridge during that period.
As well, no one will be able to angle for chinook or chum salmon in the Porcupine River (sub-drainage) and all tributaries between the same dates.
The measures are consistent with the management regimes detailed in the 2022 Yukon River Salmon Integrated Fisheries Management Plan.
They are “consistent with the Yukon River chinook and chum salmon forecast and the probability of a low run size,” DFO said.
Comments (17)
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Observer on Jun 15, 2022 at 12:27 pm
Dave,
Regardless of how you feel about it, this is Canada and this is the Canadian Law. In the event you don't like it, you can always go back to the States.
I have warned you before about commenting on first nation issues.
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Dave on Jun 15, 2022 at 5:25 am
Observer, ahh legislation and the law. Together with the courts those are three things that natives will spout off chapter and verse when it suits them and then totally ignore and break when it doesn’t. We’ve seen your tired old song and dance to many times, there’s some sand calling you that needs pounding somewhere.
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Observer on Jun 13, 2022 at 8:47 pm
Good god the knuckle draggers have jumped all over this story. I question the WS and how some of these comments really add anything of substance to this discussion.
Why are there fewer salmon, no one thing is responsible, climate change, overfishing in the oceans, over fishing on the rivers, disease, etc. Not one of those things are first nations responsible for. Who is? We all know the answer to that question.
Why do first nations have priority to the remaining salmon, because it is the law and is protected by the highest legislation in the land. The only way that law changes is with first nation consent. So learn to live with it or stfu.
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dave on Jun 13, 2022 at 4:02 pm
Traditional First nations food are two slices of white bread processed cheese with spam NOT salmon.
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SH on Jun 13, 2022 at 1:34 pm
iBrian,
There is no racism going on here. You paint a picture of certain First Nations groups spreading their nets and harvesting as much vulnerable salmon as they want. I challenge you to find one example of a First Nations group that allows this. The First Nations groups in the Yukon (from my understanding) have prevented their people from catching salmon for years, with the exception of a few for ceremonial purposes.
I don't know how it is with the Alaska First Nations.
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iBrian on Jun 12, 2022 at 6:23 am
Ahhhh, so, I found this blurt on CBC and DFO site. So, mathematical equation here. 1 person with 1 hook in the water catching 2 fish to eat is not allowed. Especially if that person is white. But if you were born with a darker tint or even if your blued eyed but have the Indian Status card you can stretch a net across a river and catch anything that swims into it. Gotcha, racist DFO.
I’ll put it this way. WE as a collective of humans living in a region have to work together. To all Natives who abstain from Netting and catching Salmon. You have my respect and everyone else’s in your effort to rehabilitate the stock. To the ones who pull salmon from the rivers.
It’s you who are depleting the Salmon stocks and it’s you who are to blame; along with Alaskans and Commercial over harvesting.
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Nathan Living on Jun 10, 2022 at 1:38 pm
For years they strained the Yukon River with large mesh sizes which took out larger fish.
Add higher water temperatures in the river and wildly fluctuating marine conditions and you have our current runs which are in trouble.
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Mitch Holder on Jun 10, 2022 at 1:06 pm
@ HEC - I know that, Alaska is, but will you be diminishing your harvest? If not, you should pay a tax. You should pay tax anyway. We do, actual stewardship and we will also forgo fish. Will you? For the sake of your descendants?
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vlad on Jun 10, 2022 at 12:45 pm
No issue with First Nation harvest per se. I think it would be incumbent amongst respective fns to ensure they maintain some sort of restrictions for further generations. That said can DFO or any federal authority produce how many slamon were caught by non first nation people? I remember the porcupine caribou herd went from something like 160k to 120k and they restricted non first nations from harvesting TWO caribou, the total non fn harvest for that year was something like 500 animals...not sure how they can connect a 40k drop in a species on those harvest numbers now herd back up to 180k so they say. I would suspect same knee jerk here, no numbers to back up a ban just optics.
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Groucho d'North on Jun 10, 2022 at 10:26 am
These restrictions are a decade too late. There is not much left to save.
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iBrian on Jun 10, 2022 at 5:34 am
What does DFO mean by “No body?” And, what restrictions are in place downstream of the border?
Reminds me of the Wild West when a tycoon would get land upstream from farmers and block the creek and say they had to buy the water.
We’re basically at the mercy of the Alaskans and the commercial fisheries. The Yukon Salmon Sub committee should have 10 years ago got into a boat at Dawson and gone downstream to see all the salmon wheels in the water. Feeding Husky dogs for pleasure sport.
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comen sense on Jun 10, 2022 at 3:25 am
They get a certain count with the sonar count at eagle Alaska and numbers at the fish ladder in Whitehorse never come close.
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bonanzajoe on Jun 9, 2022 at 8:05 pm
Gotta save those precious fish for the FN and Americans. Now it's time to implement a law that no one will be allowed to vote Liberal or NDP.
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Liberalism is killing us all! on Jun 9, 2022 at 5:02 pm
Agreed Mitch - This law disproportionately impacts all white, 2nd nations, citizens in Canada… But it’s not racist though, it’s applied equity. Then we must consider the impact, by extension of Liberal logic, that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th nations will also be disproportionately impacted.
When equity replaces equality of opportunity the societal shyt has hit the proverbial fan… Ooh! Can you smell the Liberal Logic? Farmer John’s honey wagon in the dead heat of an Okanagan summer day is less offensive than the stench of Liberal thought.
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Hec on Jun 9, 2022 at 4:32 pm
Go back to bed Mitch. Fishing for a moderate livelihood is not killing the entire salmon population.
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Mitch Holder on Jun 9, 2022 at 4:29 pm
Will this ban apply to fishwheels as well?
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Mitch Holder on Jun 9, 2022 at 2:36 pm
Unlimited first nations harvest and Alaskan commercial harvest is a much, much bigger impact than civilian anglers with limited catch and conditions on catch. What a crock of sh--